Sarah Weintraub

Sarah Weintraub is the Executive Director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.  Sarah grew up at the San Francisco Zen Center, where her parents are teachers.  She has worked for peace and human rights in Colombia for the past seven years.  She first lived there as part of a team of international observers, and has continued to go back to work on creative and political projects.  After living in Colombia she trained at Tassajara Zen monastery.  She experiences her activist work and Buddhist practice as expressions of the same deep vow, and is honored to continue working for peace and justice from the perspective of interconnectedness through her position at BPF.

Learn more about Sarah in these short articles by Stephen Colgan, published in the San Francisco Examiner.com:

Buddhism by Osmosis
One of Ms. Weintraub's unique qualification for the positions is the fact that she is a second generation American Buddhist...

Life and Death are Very Close to Each Other
The next important experience that Ms. Weintraub brings to her new position is her time as a peace activist in war-torn Colombia...

Peace is Our Middle Name
After returning to California, Ms. Weintraub needed to time to heal the despair she felt from her time in Colombia. She found this healing at Tassajara Zen monastery, where the teaching of the interconnectedness of all beings gave her “a bigger container than just me, just my life.” She practiced and studied the Buddhism she had grown up with and chose it for herself...

Dharma Talks and Interviews given by Sarah:
February 27, 2010 - Austin Zen Center, Austin, Texas.  LINK
June 26, 2010 - Still Point Zen Center, Detroit, Michigan. 
July 9, 2010 - Green Gulch Farm, Marin County, California.  LINK
July 11, 2010 - on Keepin' The Faith, NPR.  LINK
October 10, 2010 - Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group, California.  LINK
March 2, 2011  - ID Project Podcast. LINK
Fall, 2011 - The Absolute, the Relative, & the Coronel, article in Inquiring Mind. LINK

Email Sarah at sarah@bpf.org