Kristin Barker

Kristin Barker is co-founder and director of One Earth Sangha, whose mission is to cultivate radical response to ecological crises grounded in Buddhist wisdom and practice. Kristin is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Community Dharma Leader program and now teaches with the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (DC).

She is the principle designer of One Earth Sangha’s programs, which support participants by offering wisdom and practices from leading voices in climate, ecology, and Buddhism. In particular, the EcoSattva Training is an eight-week course to support participants in a steady and compassionate response to a dramatically changing world and the EcoDharma Teacher Course supports mindfulness and Dharma teachers in bringing the wealth of diverse traditions to their students in meeting this challenging moment.

As a co-founder of White Awake, Kristin has been supporting white people since 2011 with a Dharma approach to uprooting racism in ourselves and in our world. With a background in software engineering as well as environmental management, she has worked at several international environmental organizations developing information systems. She is a GreenFaith Fellow and serves on the advisory board of Project Inside Out.

Kristin was born and raised in northern New Mexico, on the traditional lands of the Diné and Pueblo peoples, and currently lives in Washington DC.