She served as co-abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center from 2000 to 2007, and had first begun practice at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1971; later, she was ordained a priest by Zentatsu Richard Baker in 1975.
From 2000 to 2007, she served as co- abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center, having first begun her practice there in 1971; she was ordained as a priest by Zentatsu Richard Baker in 1975.