Vince Fakhoury Horn is a Palestinian-American dharma teacher, contemplative technologist, and relentless entrepreneur exploring how dharma, meditation, & mindfulness can evolve in the 21st century. He is the Co-Founder & Director of Buddhist Geeks, the groundbreaking organization he co-founded in his twenties, which has reached audiences through more than 20 million podcast downloads. He is also a Co-Founding Teacher of Pragmatic Dharma, which he leads alongside Emily West Horn and Brian Newman.

A computer engineering dropout turned full-time meditator, Vince spent a full year, in total, on silent retreat before he began teaching in 2010. He is authorized in the Pragmatic Dharma lineage of Kenneth Folk and was encouraged to teach by his first teacher, Daniel Ingram. He is also authorized by Trudy Goodman and Jack Kornfield in the Insight Meditation tradition, with roots in the Burmese lineage of Mahasi Sayadaw and the Thai Forest lineage of Ajahn Chah. His work brings together Buddhist practice, integral philosophy, and technology, including multiplayer meditation, a way of practicing awareness out-loud together.

His Palestinian heritage, and his family’s living ties to the West Bank, inform a dharma that is relational, grounded, and awake in response to the suffering of the world. Wired called him a “power player of the mindfulness movement,” and Wired UK named him to its “Smart List: 50 people who will change the world.”

Vince lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, with Emily, his partner of more than twenty years, and their son, Zander.