Maia Duerr

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Biographical Information

• 3/08 – Present Principal at Five Directions Consulting
• 7/07 – 4/08 Director of Communications and Outreach, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Berkeley, CA
• 6/04 – 6/07 Executive Director, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Berkeley, CA
• 4/02 – 6/04 Research and Communications Director, Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, Northampton, MA
• 1/01 – 3/02 Research Associate II, Medical Anthropology Program, University of California, San Francisco
• 7/99 – 3/02 Associate Editor / Webmaster, Turning Wheel, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Berkeley
• 3/99 – 9/99 Research Assistant II, Medical Anthropology Program, University of California, San Francisco
• 1997 – 2000 Consultant / Research Interviewer
• 4/96 – 10/97 Managing Editor, Parallax Press / Community of Mindful Living, Berkeley
• 1994 – 2000 Freelance Editor, Developmental and copyediting, transcribing, and editorial research for non-fiction publications, including:

• Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix by Steven Roby (2002, Billboard Books)
• Four Steps to Financial Security for Lesbian and Gay Couples by Harold Lustig (1999, Ballantine)
• Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice by Gabrielle Roth (1997, Jeremy P. Tarcher)
• Thinking Green! Essays on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Nonviolence by Petra Kelly (1994, Parallax Press)

Education

• 1996 Master of Arts in Social and Cultural Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California