Brother Phap Dung is a senior teacher in Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village community. Born in Vietnam in 1969, he escaped at the age of 10 with his family and became a refugee in the U.S. He has helped bring a spiritual dimension to ecological activism and the climate movement, representing his community at the COP21 talks in Paris. He is passionate about bringing mindfulness practice and well-being into educational settings, offering young people an alternative and sustainable way to engage themselves with the social, racial and environmental challenges of our times.