Mushim Ikeda-Nash is a community peace activist, writer, diversity facilitator, and mother of a teenage son. She has done both monastic and lay Zen Buddhist practice over the past twenty years, in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and S. Korea. A consulting editor to Turning Wheel: The Journal of
Socially Engaged Buddhism, she also contributes a quarterly column on family life and Buddhist practice, and her poetry and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies such as the  Shambhala Sun and Innovative Buddhist Women: Swimming Against the Stream.

Mushim was coeditor of Making the Invisible Visible: Healing Racism in Our Buddhist Communities. She is former chair of the San Francisco Zen Center Board Committee on Diversity and Multiculturalism and she has served on the boards of San Francisco Zen Center and the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Mushim’s work has been featured in two documentary films, Between the Lines: Asian American Women Poets and Acting on  Faith: Women and the New Religious Activism in America, a recent documentary presenting portraits of three women activists of minority faiths in the U.S. She lives in Oakland, California with her family, and volunteers as a literacy teacher in the Oakland public high school her son attends.