She accepted authorization as a spiritual guide and teacher in the Zen lineage. Hoshi Myozen Magee also draws on her training as a mindfulness teacher trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and her study and co-teaching with Bhikkhu Analayo, a Buddhist Monk in the Theravadan tradition, and renowned scholar of early Buddhism. Hoshi Magee is a founding advisor of the Mindfulness in Law Society, and an internationally recognized mindfulness teacher and Keynote speaker. Her current work explores how Black cultural spirituality, including the quality of soulfulness, intersects with and might strengthen mindfulness applications.

Magee’s extensive service to public-serving institutions committed to internal policy and structural change includes prior stints on the Boards of the American Association of Law Schools section on Humanizing Legal Education (currently, the section on Balance in Legal Education); and, an appointment to serve on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs. In January 2023, Magee received an appointment to the National Institutes of Health’s National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health, which plays a key role advising the NCCIH on forthcoming research projects and policies. In Fall 2023, and while continuing to serve as Professor of Law, Magee accepted an appointment as the Founding Director of the Center for Contemplative Law and Ethics at the University of San Francisco. She recently accepted an appointment to serve on the Board of the University of Virginia’s Contemplative Science’s Center.

Professor Magee integrates mindfulness into higher education, leadership and everyday social engagement. Her work explores the intersections of anti-racist education, social justice, and contemplative practices, and offering trauma-sensitive practices to support healing, resilience, personal wellbeing and flourishing together. Grounded in the science of mindfulness, wellbeing and resilience, she integrates storytelling, movement, journaling and other research-based experiential practices for strengthening our inner resources for navigating a world of constant change. Her current work explores how Black cultural spirituality, including the quality of soulfulness, intersects with and might strengthen mindfulness applications.

In recognition of her uniquely innovative impact on the field of mindfulness and wellbeing in law, Magee was the inaugural recipient of the Reed Smith Excellence in Wellbeing in Law Award (in 2022), awarded after an independent, national selection process by the Institute for Wellbeing in Law. And in March, 2024, Magee was selected as a 2024 recipient of the Shalem Institute’s “Contemplative Voices” Award.

A Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute since 2015, Magee is an internationally recognized Keynote speaker, and thought-leading, innovative mindfulness teacher and teacher trainer, with a particular emphasis on integrating mindfulness into the everyday life in the face of the most vexing challenges of our times.

Additionally, Adam has played a pivotal role in the movement for new and inclusive spirituality. His books and work often include collaborations with contemplative leaders from diverse traditions, addressing the needs of the Nones and SBNRs, and envisioning a post-religious spirituality that can serve individual and collective healing and liberation.

On the activist side, Adam has been actively involved in grassroots efforts for justice and supporting and mentoring young activists in various movements for social and ecological transformation. He has also helped to found a number of organizations and communities that combine contemplative practice with activism. Spending more than 15 years working on the streets of New York City with BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ young people who are homeless or housing insecure, Adam continues to mentor and offer spiritual support to those navigating those challenges.

Currently, Adam is the director of The Center for Spiritual Imagination in New York, dedicated to democratizing the gifts of monastic spirituality and teaching contemplative prayer within the context of hearing and responding to the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth. He also serves as a priest at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, New York.

Adam lives in New York with his wife, Kaira Jewel Lingo, a Buddhist teacher and former nun in the community of Thich Nhat Hanh. Together, they lead The Beloved Community for Engaged Spirituality, inspired by the social vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh and the Buddhist-Christian teachings of Engaged Contemplation and Earth Centered Spirituality.

Adam’s work has been featured by PBS, ABC News, CBS, NBC, Harper’s Magazine, New York Daily News and many other online, print and television media.