Zac Ispa-Landa is a Dharma teacher and a Senior Lecturer in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont. At the University, he teaches courses on ecology, environmental justice, mindfulness in the Anthropocene, natural history, critical reflection and dialogue, honey bee biology and beekeeping, and sustainability. He teaches mindfulness at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Inward Bound Mindfulness, MIT Sloan School, the Burlington Dharma Collective, and Bhumisparsha. He began meditating and studying Dharma twenty years ago, inspired by a vision of personal and collective liberation, and has spent thousands of hours in meditation and hundreds of days on retreat since. He began mindfulness practice with vipassana (Insight) meditation and, in recent years, has been practicing Vajrayana (tantric) Buddhism with Lama Rod Owens, who he’s worked and taught with since 2017. Zac lives Winooski, Vermont with his partner, son, and tens of thousands of honeybees.