Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson has been practicing Buddhism since 1967, primarily in the Harada-Yasutani lineage of Zen Buddhism. He has studied under Taizan Maezumi Roshi, Genpo Merzel Roshi, Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche, Robert Aitken Roshi, Joseph Bobrow Roshi, Joan Sutherland Sensei, John Tarrant Roshi, and David Weinstein Sensei. A lay practitioner and family man with four grown children, Mr. Wilson has been an attorney, investment banker and software executive. He has long been active in the U.S. civil rights movement, including work with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1964. He began his professional career as an Assistant Public Defender in Oakland, California. He later entered private practice, where he specialized in employment discrimination law, and served as Consulting Attorney and Trainer for the American Indian Lawyer Training Program, a national American Indian-run non-profit group. He has a JD from Yale Law School and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business Administration.