Sebene Selassie

Sebene Selassie is a teacher & author who guides people to remember and trust their belonging. Born in Ethiopia and raised in Washington DC, she began studying Buddhism 30 years ago as an undergraduate student at McGill University where she majored in Comparative Religious Studies. She has an MA from the New School where she focused on race and cultural studies. For over 20 years, she worked with children, youth, and families nationally and internationally for small and large nonprofit organizations. Her work has taken her from the Tenderloin in San Francisco, to East Harlem–New York, to refugee camps in Guinea–West Africa. She is the former Executive Director of New York Insight Meditation Center and has served on multiple boards including the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and Sacred Mountain Sangha. Sebene is trained as a meditation teacher, an integral coach, and as a practitioner of Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy (IFOT). She teaches classes, workshops and retreats regularly and is one of the most popular teachers on the Ten Percent Happier app. She is a three-time cancer survivor of Stage III and IV breast cancer. Sebene lives on the Unceded Territory of the Lenape Peoples in Brooklyn, NY with her partner, Frederic. Her first book "You Belong: A Call for Connection" is published by HarperOne.

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