Jeremy David Engels

Jeremy David Engels (he/him) is the liberal arts professor of Communication and Ethics at Penn State University (www.jeremydavidengels.com). He is also a longtime teacher of mindfulness, meditation, and yoga and since undertaking a pilgrimage to walk in the footsteps of the Buddha in India and Nepal in 2018, a student of Thích Nhất Hạnh. He is currently working on a new book called How Meditation Changed the World: Thich Nhat Hanh and Mindfulness as the Practice of Peace that roots Thích Nhất Hạnh’s mindfulness teachings in the peace movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Jeremy joyfully joins the Plum Village Beloved Community in practicing mindfulness as “the practice of peace.”