Rev. Florence Caplow is a dharma heir and teacher in the Soto Zen lineage of Suzuki Roshi, a Unitarian Universalist minister, a writer and editor, and a climate change activist. She was a conservation botanist specializing in endangered species conservation for many years. She sees all these as interconnected expressions of the Bodhisattva path. She teaches online through San Francisco Zen Center, Upaya Zen Center, and Cloud Way Zen, and is the co-editor of Wildbranch: An Anthology of Nature, Environmental, and Place-Based Writing, and The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women.  To learn more about her work, visit her website.