PROFILE

Emma Varvaloucas is the executive director of The Progress Network, where she is host of the critically acclaimed news podcast What Could Go Right? and writes the WCGR? newsletter. She is the former executive editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, the premier publication covering Buddhist news, culture, and Buddhism’s new home in the West.

She is the editor of two books from Wisdom Publications, Touching Ground: Devotion and Demons Along the Path of Enlightenment and Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up, and is currently writing a book on media literacy for the modern age. Her writing has appeared in many outlets, including The Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and the Swedish newspaper Expressen. A graduate of New York University, where she studied journalism and religious studies, she has also studied Tibetan Buddhism at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal.