NORY EMORI
Nory’s life is a journey home in many ways. She went from living in a cold, grey, rainy city to a warm, bright, tropical place. From working for a big brand agency helping large corporations grow in developing nations to a small medical nutrition company with heart. From being occupied by a mind consumed with worry and anxiety to long, spacious moments full of gratitude and joy.
She is an ardent supporter of Eden’s work because of this journey and experience. In service to this mission, she offers communication and planning skills developed through a career in design and brand strategy to the Board. In one more step towards home, she is grateful to offer these skills not to fuel consumerism, but to connect people to more joy, more peace, more love: the Mindful Living Revolution.
CHANDRA HARRIS-MCCRAY
An award-winning chief strategist and architect of marketing and communications blueprints across multimedia, Chandra Harris-McCray, Ph.D., has been lifting the voices of those often unseen and unheard since she was a young child reading Chicago newspapers daily to her father.
She serves as the vice chancellor for strategic marketing and communications at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her story listening and journalistic roots serve as the foundation for nearly 20 years of experience serving in inaugural and progressive marketing and communications leadership roles at the University of Tennessee System and Foundation and the University of Colorado Boulder. Her team building and leadership is connected to billion-dollar-plus campaigns optimized by multichannel constituent-focused journeys rooted in systems thinking and ingenious collaborative partnerships.
Her passion for the power of inclusive story lifting, social justice, leadership and creating legacy is further lived out as an equity-centered researcher and consultant at The Inclusion Firm, where she is grounded in the work of her doctoral degree, focused on race, gender, cultural studies and philanthropy in higher education administration and leadership.
Stephanie walton
Stephanie discovered her mindfulness and meditation practice while seeking stillness in her hectic world as an author and senior leader for a Fortune 100 organization. Stephanie has a strong commitment to compassionate leadership and helping others amplify their gifts for a common cause.
Stephanie has a BS and MBA. She met Eden during a retreat in Ojai, CA which led to a fundamental shift in her perspective and allowed her to deepen her relationship with herself. Her desire is to open up the world of meditation to BIPOC women who seek to break free from suffering from centuries of generational trauma. Stephanie is married to her husband, Russell, and has two daughters and four grandchildren.
TOMMY TUNG
Tommy is a storyteller: A writer with 20 years of published work, a journalist with articles in the Los Angeles Times and Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine, and currently writing a novel of modern-day fantasy because magic is as real as we make it.
Traditional education has given him a BA in English from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Screenwriting from USC, and since then he has received an honorable mention for short fiction in Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope: All-Story. Everyday life has given him an education in ways that brought him to Mindful Living Revolution; he started sitting meditation alone in college; he stopped and started for years; then he attended several sitting groups — some at Zen Buddhist temples — until the radical compassionate awareness shared at his first Mindful Living Revolution sitting session invited him to deepen his practice with sensibility and kindness.
Tommy grew up 500-feet from the American River in Sacramento. He now lives 500-feet from Ballona Creek in Los Angeles. Growing up by the American River, compassion, kindness, and mindfulness were all mysteries in Tommy’s childhood. And while these concepts are no longer as mysterious, he is on a journey to cultivate them in every moment. Living the same distance but by a different river reminds him that the journey never stops, and the story never stops. The storytelling goes on.
JODI STROCK
Jodi Strock is a mother, yogi, and student of Dharma. She sees herself as a lifelong learner and has fallen in love with the practices of Relational Mindfulness. Jodi enjoys both engaging in and sharing these practices in all of life, including in her private practice as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Coach, and Mindfulness Facilitator. Being a conduit of care and service are two of Jodi's life intentions and she is grateful to serve the community and the Board of Mindful Living Revolution.
