Kazu Haga

Kazu Haga is a trainer, educator, student and practitioner with over 25 years of experience in nonviolence and restorative justice. His work weaves together spiritual practice, trauma healing and nonviolent action to advance social change and move towards collective liberation.

He is a core member of the Fierce Vulnerability Network, a founding core member of the Ahimsa Collective, is a Jam facilitator and author of the books Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm and Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging from Collapse.

He teaches nonviolence, conflict reconciliation, restorative justice, organizing and mindfulness in prisons and jails, high schools, universities and youth groups, faith communities and activist movements around the country.

Kazu was introduced to the work of social change and nonviolence in 1998, when at the age of 17 he participated in the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage; a 6-month walking journey from Massachusetts to New Orleans to retrace the slave trade. He then spent a year studying nonviolence and Buddhism while living in monasteries throughout South Asia, and returned to the US at age 19 to begin a lifelong path in social justice work.

He spent 10 years working in social justice philanthropy, while directly being involved in and playing leading roles in many movements. He became an active nonviolence trainer in the global justice movement of the late 1990s, and has since led hundreds of workshops worldwide.

Kazu is an avid meditator, enjoys being in nature and loves food more than most people do. He is also a die-hard fan of the Boston Celtics.

He is a resident of the Canticle Farm community on Lisjan Ohlone land, Oakland, CA where he lives with his family. You can find out more about his work at www.kazuhaga.com.