“The awareness that we explore here, the capacity for being more present to the relationships in our lives, is basic to the human experience. Whatever our background, as humans, we share the ability to be more engaged, and to wake up more fully to the moments of our lives.”  

– from The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness 

Rhonda Magee is a Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco and an internationally recognized mindfulness teacher and innovator. For more than 20 years, Magee has been exploring how mindfulness and other contemplative practices support engagement in the world in the face of the multiple interlocking challenges of our times, including systemic injustice, climate distress, political polarization, migration, war, and their effects on us all.  A prolific author, she draws on law and legal history to weave storytelling, poetry, analysis, and practices into inspiration for changing how we think, act, and live together in a rapidly changing world. Her book, The Inner Work of Racial Justice, which has been called “brilliant…useful…essential right now,” offers a road map to a more peaceful world.  

Join Malcolm Clemens Young for a conversation with Magee about how inner work is essential in order to have the difficult conversations necessary for healing the conflicts that divide us. 

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About the Guest

Rhonda V. Magee is a professor of law at the University of San Francisco. Also trained in sociology and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), she is a highly practiced facilitator of trauma-sensitive, restorative MBSR interventions for lawyers and law students, and for minimizing the effects of social-identity-based bias. Magee has been a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society and a visiting professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2022, Magee was named the inaugural Director of the University of San Francisco School of Law’s Center for Contemplative Law and Ethics. 

About the Moderator

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young is the dean of Grace Cathedral. He is the author of The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau and The Invisible Hand in Wilderness: Economics, Ecology, and God, and is a regular contributor on religion to the Huffington Post and San Francisco Examiner.    

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