Kathy Park JDPSN began practicing Zen in the Kwan Um School of Zen in 1999 in Paris. Her experiences include living and training in both residential lay Zen communities and monastic temples in the U.S, Europe and Asia. She received inka (permission to teach) in 2016 in the Kwan Um tradition. Together with her husband Andrzej Stec JDPSN, they guide Zen groups in-person and online in Seoul, Gangnam and Daejeon in Korea. Kathy Park JDPSN is also the abbot of Kwan Um Zen Online, the global online sangha for the Kwan Um School of Zen. She is passionate about building a global spiritual community through supporting one another with collective wisdom, diversity and creativity. She has also co-translated and edited the Teachings of Man Gong and Zen master Kyong Ho’s Song of Zen into English.