Lisa Kemmerer earned a BA from Reed College, a Masters from Harvard Divinity, and a PhD in Philosophy from University of Glasgow, Scotland. She has taught philosophy and religions in Alaska , Washington , and Scotland , and currently teaches at Montana State University, Billings. Lisa has written numerous articles, focusing on the area of applied ethics; she has directed, and produced two documentaries on Buddhism, is the author of, In Search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals (Brill Academic, 2006), has had her second book accepted by Columbia University Press (The Buddha, the Bible, and the Beasts), and is working on a handful of other books. Lisa is an activist, artist, traveler, and adventurer who has hiked, biked, and kayaked widely._________________________________________________