Louise Dunlap (1938–) is a teacher, writer, and Buddhist activist, whose work focuses on nature and truth-telling. She has taught writing at MIT, Tufts, UC Berkeley, UCLA, the University of Massachusetts, and many others as well as to city workers, environmental professionals, and activists. Until recently she was Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, and taught writing in other planning and environmental programs. 

She is the author of Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing (New Village Press, 2007). Her new memoir, Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind (New Village Press, 2022), explores the damaging legacy of colonization and racism beginning in California’s Napa Valley, where her ancestors settled, and looking further back to early colonial history in New England.,

Her recent work legacy continues to emphasize social-change, focusing on climate and “organizing with other white people to change the mind of racism.” As an ordained member of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing, Dunlap is committed to engagement and awakening in the wider world. She lives in Oakland, California. 

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