Background
Willis grew up in Docena, Alabama (near Birmingham), as the daughter of a Baptist deacon and steelworker.
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Columbia University; Cornell University.
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She has been called influential by Time Magazine, Newsweek (cover story), and Ebony Magazine. Aetna Incorporated.’s 2011 African American History Calendar features professor Willis as one of thirteen distinguished leaders of faith-based health initiatives in the United States. While traveling through Asia during the early 1970s, she became the student of Tibetan lama Thubten Yeshe, who encouraged her academic pursuits.
She is the author of the following books: New York: Riverhead Books, 2001.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. On Knowing Reality: The Tattvartha Chapter of Asanga"s Bodhisattvabhumi.
Columbia Uttar Pradesh, 1979. Enlightened Beings: Life Stories from the Ganden Oral Tradition.
Wisdom Publications, 1995. Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet.
(Editor, and contributor of two of six, essays) Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion, 1989. Since 2006 she has contributed to the group blog On Faith (sponsored by Newsweek and the Washington Post) alongside Elie Wiesel, Desmond Tutu, and Madeleine Albright, among others
In 2003, she was awarded Wesleyan University’s Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
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