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Rabia Elizabeth Roberts

Rabia Elizabeth Roberts, Ed.D., is a peaceworker, women's advocate, and senior teacher in the International Sufi Way, as well as a practitioner and scholar of Buddhist teachings. She has spent the past five years on a worldwide pilgrimage of teaching and service. She is co-director of the Boulder Institute for Nature and the Human Spirit which runs national and international training programs in support of human rights, citizen peacemaking, environmental ethics, and indigenous cultures. She has served on peace teams in Nicaragua, Burma and most recently Iraq. In 2002 she was elected to the Governing Board of the global Nonviolent Peaceforce and serves on its executive committee.

A trained wilderness rites-of-passage guide she uses a pan-cultural approach to personal transformation and wilderness experience. She helped to found the Institute for Deep Ecology, the Environmental Leadership Department at Naropa University, and the Spirit in Education Movement (SEM) in Thailand. She has taught philosophy and social advocacy at Harvard and Marquette Universities and written books and articles on prayer, mysticism, and social action. She is co-editor of the books Earth Prayers, Life Prayers, and Prayers for a Thousand Years.