Phillip Cryan
Board Vice Chair
Phillip Cryan serves as Executive Vice President of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa, a union of more than 50,000 healthcare workers in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and consumer-directed in-home care. He has been a meditator for more than 25 years and an organizer, activist, educator, writer, and policy analyst in pursuit of social, racial, and economic justice for most of that time, having taken an interest in justice work as an expression of Dharma practice. He has practiced primarily in the Thai Forest Theravada tradition of Ajahn Chah and the Chan/Pure Land tradition of Venerable Master Hsuan Hua. He became an active member of the Common Ground community in 2013 and has served on the Board of Directors since 2020.