Meet Our Leaders

Jennifer Mercer
Jennifer Mercer

Jennifer has been active with GBZC since 2021 attending the Tuesday evenings in person.  She works at the Cambridge PACE program as an occupational therapist, and finds dharma teachings in gardening at home. Jennifer serves on the Board as Clerk.

Cheryl Kinzen Morrow

Cheryl Morrow is the sangha’s Vice President. She has been practicing with this community since 2011. For over 20 years she has run her own business as an engineering consultant with clients all over the world. She is now semi-retired and loves gardening and long walks with her dog in the woods.

Julie Nelson
Julie Nelson

Julie Seido Nelson is an Adjunct Teacher, an online Practice Leader, a trustee of the Resilient Sangha Project, and leads the Communications Working Group at GBZC. She has practiced  Zen since about 2003, and received teaching transmission in the Taizan Maezumi lineage from Susan Myoyu Andersen, Roshi in 2023. For more about her, see her blog.

James Peregrino
James Peregrino

James Peregrino has been practicing with this community since 2006. He currently serves as the President of the sangha and as the practice leader on Tuesday nights. He has been working in IT at Harvard since before the dawn of the Internet and dancing Mexican baile folklorico all his adult life.

Tim Tickle
Tim Tickle

GBZC treasurer, Tim has been active with GBZC since 2024. He is a Principal Investigator and Business Development lead focusing on genomics research. In his free time, you can find him gardening, learning piano, and taking Japanese language classes.