Sonoma Valley Interfaith
Reverend Kathryn Stark
Reverend Myogen Kathryn Stark, MA, M.Div., has been practicing and studying in the Soto Zen Buddhist tradition since 1990 and is affiliated with San Francisco Zen Center. She received priest ordination in 2003 and completed dharma transmission (full ordination) in 2013 with Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma teacher at San Francisco Zen Center. She holds Master of Arts and master of divinity degrees in Buddhist studies with a specialty in Buddhist chaplaincy from the Graduate Theological Union and Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley CA. She currently works at Hospice By The Bay as an interfaith spiritual support counselor in the Marin and Sonoma areas. Having recently relocated to the Sonoma area, she is working to form a sitting group in Sonoma.