Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu was born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and Irish American father. He grew up in Massachusetts, went to Harvard, and became a professor at the University of Tokyo and Stanford. His writing illuminates "heartfulness" -- mindfulness, compassion, and responsibility -- as a way of leadership, healing, and community development. At Stanford University he is faculty in Leadership Innovations and Wellness Education in the School of Medicine, and also teaches in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.