Nikko Odiseos

Shambhala Publications

Nikko’s first exposure to Tibetan language was as a student on the Antioch Buddhist Studies program in Bodhgaya in 1990 where he was also on staff for several years subsequently. He joined Shambhala Publications in 2010 as president. He is also on the boards of several Buddhist non-profits.

David Kittelstrom

Wisdom Publications

David Kittelstrom is a senior editor at Wisdom Publications, where he has worked since 1993, and staff editor for The Library of Tibetan Classics, Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism, Teachings of the Buddha, and Classics of Indian Buddhism series. He is not himself a translator but has had the good fortune to work closely with many.

Casey Kemp

Shambhala Publications

Casey Kemp is a translator and editor of Buddhist texts. She received her Master’s degree from Oxford University in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, and has worked closely with the Drikung Kagyu monastic community in Europe and Asia. She is completing her PhD dissertation on the concept of luminosity in the early Tibetan Mahāmudrā tradition through the University of Vienna and has translated and edited for 84000. She currently resides in Boulder working as a Snow Lion editor at Shambhala Publications.

Brianna Quick

Wisdom Publications

Brianna Quick is an assistant editor at Wisdom Publications in Somerville, Massachusetts. She has been with Wisdom for two years and primarily creates content for Wisdom Academy’s online courses and helps coordinate the acquisitions committee. She received a master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School in 2015, where she concentrated in Buddhist studies. She completed her undergraduate studies at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina and has practiced in the Drikung Kagyu lineage for several years.