Elizabeth Hamilton, a Zen practitioner for 30 years, began teaching in 1994.  She teaches at Zen Center of San Diego with Ezra Bayda, her practice partner and husband. Her first book, Untrain Your Parrot--and Other No-Nonsense Instruction on the Path of Zen, will be published by Shambhala Publications in Spring 2007.  Elizabeth and Rosa Parks co-founded the West Coast Branch of the Rosa Parks Institute in 1992.