Author: Melissa Moore, PhD
Bio: Melissa Moore Ph.D. Steward of the North American Karuna training since 2014, and co-founded Karuna Europe in 1996. Melissa has her M.A. in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and her Ph.D. in Psychological Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. 

Melissa has been a student of Vajrayana Buddhism and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1979. She was the founding director of the Felton Institute Research and Training Division in San Francisco (2006–2016). She has been involved in community-based research for the most marginalized populations in California, trained front-line providers in mental health in evidence-based practices, and then researched the outcomes. 

Melissa is the Executive Director of Karuna Training and a lead faculty. She has taught Karuna Training in nine countries and four states in the U.S. She lives in Denver with her dog and husband. -Amazon