Member Profile Fall 2017

Member Profile – Nicole Esquibel

  1. Hometown: Denver, but I call Kansas City home now.
  2. Role at Rime: Newsletter committee, Social Justice Committee member, Service Guild member, and a long time ago I worked the gift shop.
  3. Day job: Professor of Film and Digital Media and the Dean of the School of Visual and Communication Arts at Avila University.
  4. Hobbies: Riding motorcycles, cooking, live music, going to the movies, jigsaw puzzles.
  5. What led you to the Dharma: In my early 20’s I was looking for spiritual answers and the Dharma showed me a path to understanding
  6. Something a lot of people don’t know about you: I went to Culinary School.
  7. Buddhist book you would recommend: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa. This book still blows my mind many years later.