Puanani Burgess is a Zen Buddhist priest, poet and community mediator from Wai‘anae, O‘ahu. Puanani Burgess was once a committed protestor and resister. She developed her skills as a law student to become what she calls a “dragon feeder” – someone able to navigate the complex rules of a large system like government or the DOE the way one might negotiate with a stubborn dragon.

Poet and community mediator, Puanani Burgess says we are being called by our answers to behave as ʻohana.

Puanani Burgess reads from The Mouse is Dreaming.