Joanna Macy

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Mary Joanne Rogers Macy (May 2, 1929 – July 19, 2025), known as Joanna Macy, was a Buddhist scholar, eco-philosopher, writer, teacher, and peaceworker. Macy developed a framework for personal and social change that she called "the Work that Reconnects".[1]

One of the founding members of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, she served on its international advisory board for many years.

She was married to Francis Underhill Macy, the activist and Russian scholar who founded the Center for Safe Energy.

Her many books include:

  • World As Lover, World As Self (Parallax Press, 1991)
  • Widening Circles, A Memoir (New Society Publishers, 2000)
  • Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural System (State University of New York Press, 1991). Archive version
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