Jaime Heiku McLeod is teacher emeritus at Treetop Zen Center in Maine, having received dharma transmission from Peter Seishin Wohl in 2016. Jaime is a member of the White Plum Asanga.

She’s a proponent of socially engaged Buddhism and believes practice must find its expression through compassionate activity in the world, growing out of a direct experience of connection with the Earth and all beings. Her teaching focuses on the opportunities for figurative “home-leaving” available to those who remain householders, and she strives to help students awaken right within the realms of work, love, and home.

Jaime makes her living as the fundraising and communications coordinator for the Sexual Assault Crisis and Support Center of Kennebec and Somerset Counties and its Children’s Advocacy Center. She is also a freelance writer and editor, most notably serving as a former contributing editor for Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly.

She lives with her wife, Melissa, and their two children, Silas and Lydia, in Winthrop, Maine, and enjoys reading, camping, nature walks, swimming, science fiction, mythology, and crafting.