df_f_writers_2_para: 55
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rowid | first_name | last_name | gender | career_sec | personal_sec | info | seed_first_name | seed_last_name | occupation |
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55 | Leslie | Ucci | f | Attended Sarah Lawrence College and earned a BA from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Teaches writing at the Esalen Institute and was a speaker at The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard's 2008 and 2009 conferences on Narrative Nonfiction. Awarded writing residencies at Mesa Refuge, Hedgebrook, and Blue Mountain Center. In the 1980s she exposed abuses of sexuality and power by leaders of American Buddhist communities. She speaks at hospitals, medical schools and other locations about improving end-of-life medicine and the doctor-patient relationship. | Married to Brian Donohue and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in South Africa in 1949. Grew up in England and the Boston area. A Buddhist since 1977, Butler was lay ordained by the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh and has co-led small meditation groups. | Attended Sarah Lawrence College and earned a BA from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Teaches writing at the Esalen Institute and was a speaker at The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard's 2008 and 2009 conferences on Narrative Nonfiction. Awarded writing residencies at Mesa Refuge, Hedgebrook, and Blue Mountain Center. In the 1980s she exposed abuses of sexuality and power by leaders of American Buddhist communities. She speaks at hospitals, medical schools and other locations about improving end-of-life medicine and the doctor-patient relationship.Married to Brian Donohue and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in South Africa in 1949. Grew up in England and the Boston area. A Buddhist since 1977, Ucci was lay ordained by the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh and has co-led small meditation groups. | Katy | Butler | writers |