Career
She co-founded Ordinary Dharma in Los Angeles, California. The rural Manzanita Village Retreat Center, located in San Diego County. And Five Changes, to mentor aspiring leaders, cultural creatives, and spiritual visionaries.
She is a "woman of transsexual experience" who transitioned in 1996.
She stated about her transitioning, "As a teacher encouraging others to live more honest and authentic lives, it was increasingly difficult for me to deny a basic fact—that I was a woman."
What Makes A Manitoba: 22 Writers Imagine The Future (2004) (Rebecca Walker, Editor)
The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women (2012) (Florence Caplow and Susan Moon, Editors).