Rev. Hokyo Yoshin Lorenzo Garbo

Rev. Hokyo Yoshin Lorenzo Garbo has been practicing in the Soto Zen lineage of Shunryu Suzuki since 2001. After many years of lay practice while serving as an economics faculty member of a liberal arts college, Lorenzo entered residential practice at City Center in 2020. He received the bodhisattva precepts from Tenshin Reb Anderson in January 2006 and priest ordination from Kiku Christina Lehnherr in September 2023; that year he also completed a Certificate in Soto Zen Studies at IBS (Berkeley). He lived and practiced in all three SFZC temples and was shuso (head-student) at City Center in the winter of 2026. He currently serves as San Francisco Zen Center’s Director of Hospitality, and has previously held work-practice positions in the Guest Program at Green Gulch, the Online Program, and the Accounting department. Lorenzo has been married to Rev. Michael Novak since 2007.