Dena Merriam

Dena Merriam has been an interfaith leader for over two decades & was Vice Chair of the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious &Spiritual Leaders held in 2000 at United Nations headquarters in New York. Two years later, she convened a meeting of women spiritual leaders at the UN in Geneva and from that meeting founded the Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW). She is a longtime student of Paramahansa Yogananda & practitioner of Kriya Yoga meditation. She holds a MS from Columbia University and an honorary doctorate from MCU. In 2014 she won the Niwano Peace Prize for her interfaith peace efforts. She is the author of My Journey Through Time, The Untold Story of Sita, When the Bright Moon Rises, Rukmini and the Turning of Time and To Dance with Dakinis.