High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! angel Kyodo williams (born December 2, 1969) is an African American//mixed race writer, ordained Zen priest and the author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace (ISBN 0670892688), published by Viking Press in 2000. Called "the most vocal and most intriguing African-American Buddhist in America" by Library Journal, she is the Spiritual Director of the meditation-based New Dharma Community and founder of the Center for Transformative Change (formerly Center for Urban Peace in Oakland) in Berkeley, California and is also credited with developing fearlessMeditation, fearlessYoga and Warrior Spirit Training. Her given buddhist name, Kyodo, means "Way of Teaching."