Norma Wong Book Reading

Native Women Lead invites you to join us in Albuquerque on Sunday, April 13th, as we welcome Norma Wong, a Zen Rōshi and longtime movement builder, political strategist and advisor to many of New Mexico’s social justice organizations. She will share wisdom from her book, When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse at this deeply resonant gathering.

This gathering will be a space for connection, learning, and imagining a future that sustains us all. It’s part of a movement that uplifts Indigenous leadership, collective well-being, and systemic transformation. 

This is your opportunity to sit with and discuss teachings which encourage us to move with awareness in times of crisis and collective acceleration rather than be passively swept away amid rapid change.

Norma Wong, a life-long resident of Hawaiʻi, is a descendant of Native Hawaiians and Hakka Chinese immigrants. She has decades of experience in organizing, policy, strategy, and politics in Hawaiʻi, particularly in the area of Native Hawaiian issues, serving in the Hawaii State Legislature and as a policy lead and negotiator for Governor John Waiheʻe, Hawaiʻi’s first Native governor. Norma began her spiritual practice at the same time as her political life unfolded. These days, it is the intertwined application of Zen practice and an Indigenous worldview that Norma embodies that invokes practical inquiry and redirect work. She is a thought partner, a strategist, and a teacher.

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