Choro Carla Antonaccio
Austin Zen Center
Houston Zen Center
Rev. Choro Carla Antonaccio began formal Zen practice at Chapel Hill Zen Center in 1999. She received lay precepts from Rev. Josho Patricia Phelan in 2001 and priest ordination in 2010. She was shuso in Chapel Hill in 2016. Over the course of her training she participated in ango at Tassajara and Green Gulch Farm (San Francisco Zen Center). After stepping back from her career in higher education in 2018, she moved to Austin in 2020 to practice with the sangha at Austin Zen Center, serving as Tanto (Head of Practice). In 2021, she received dharma transmission from Rev. Konjin Gaelyn Godwin, Abbot of Houston Zen Center, and is currently Guiding Teacher in Austin.