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xxii Contributors

published for and on behalf of the United Nations; International Handbook
of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma; The Trauma of Terrorism; and On
the Ground After September 11.

Rick Daniels, Ph.D., is an independent management consultant in the
area of organizational change assisting institutions in building social and
technical systems that support knowledge creation and sharing. He previ-
ously worked for Philip Morris USA in IT strategic planning, with a focus
on establishing the Knowledge Management discipline within the corpo-
ration. He started his professional life in the mental health field as a coun-
seling clinician and administrator.
Dr. Daniels has a multidisciplinary education in psychology and tech-
nology, holding four graduate degrees. Two master’s degrees are from New
York University, one is in Rehabilitation Counseling and the second one
in Interactive Telecommunications. His third master’s degree as well as
his Ph.D. is from Fielding Graduate University (Santa Barbara, California)
in Human and Organizational Systems. Most recently he worked as a pro
bono consultant assisting Delgado Community College in New Orleans
post-Katrina, helping to establish a strategic plan for a distance-learning
educational delivery system, given the impact to the physical infrastruc-
ture post-Katrina. He facilitated a participatory action research environ-
ment, marshalling Fielding Graduate University resources to assist in a
whole-systems approach.

Koshin Paley Ellison, M.F.A., L.M.S.W., is a cofounder and coexecutive
director of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care (www.zen-
care.org). He serves as the director of training for the center’s Buddhist
Chaplaincy Programs. Ellison is an adjunct professor at the Institute
of Buddhist Studies and a cofounder of the Buddhist Psychotherapy
Collective. He is currently a Jungian Analyst Candidate at the Jungian
Psychoanalytic Association. He has served as a chaplain at Cabrini Medical
Center and Hospice and Beth Israel Medical Center. He is the chaplain
supervisor of the Integrative Medicine Department at Beth Israel Medical
Center in New York. Ellison began Zen practice over 20 years ago, and he
is now a senior student and Soto Zen Buddhist Priest at the Village Zendo.
He teaches workshops on meditation, stress reduction, and contemplative
care in a variety of settings from classrooms to corporations.

Brian Engdahl, Ph.D., earned his B.A. in 1975 and his Ph.D. in 1980 from
the University of Minnesota. He has been a counseling psychologist at