Leadership

Board of Directors

Devin

Devin Berry, (President) has served on the board of Coming To The Table and served as a founding board member of MindfulPeacebuilding. He co-founded both the teen and men of color sangha at the East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, CA. He is currently participating in Insight Meditation Society’s (IMS) 2017-2021 teacher training program. Devin recently relocated to Western Massachusetts and teaches nationally.

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Tara Mulay (Treasurer) has served as president of the board of Mission Dharma in San Francisco and as a member of the Board of Aloka Vihara.  She is a graduate of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Community Dharma Leaders Program and is currently participating in Insight Meditation Society’s 2017-2021 teacher training program.  In 2016, she co-founded the San Francisco People of Color Insight Sangha. She remained a core teacher with the group until the spring of 2019, when she relocated to Western Massachusetts.  Tara practiced criminal defense law in California for over 20 years.

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Roxanne Dault (Secretary) is a dedicated practitioner of Vipassana (insight) meditation, Roxanne Dault has sat many long retreats in Asia and in the West in the last 15 years. Roxanne is a member of the Board for True North Insight (TNI) in Canada, where she also teaches weekly sits and residential retreats. She is involved in different volunteer projects to share the Dharma including TNI’s prison meditation program and a 2-year study program. She is currently part of the four-year Insight Meditation Society (IMS) Teacher Training. Roxanne is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner® and a Web Project Manager/Content Strategist. She speaks French, English and is learning her ancestors’ language, Anishinaabemowin.

Gil Fronsdal

Gil Fronsdal, PhD is the primary teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.  He directs the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies where he teaches programs in Buddhist Chaplaincy.  Gil has been active in establishing guidelines and procedures for Buddhist organizations to resolve conflict and ethical issues.  He has a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford University and has authored several books on Buddhism.

Jeff Hardin

Jeff Hardin MD, PhD has been practicing insight meditation since 2000 and has graduated from the Spirit Rock Community Dharma Leader training program and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction training program.  He is an emergency medicine physician who has participated in several medical aid volunteer missions in Latin America and Asia.

Rachel IMS

Rachel Lewis, PhD, has served on the board of the British Columbia Insight Meditation Society and has taught meditation since 2010. She is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitioners Program and Community Dharma Leaders program, and she is currently participating in Insight Meditation Society’s 2017-2021 teacher training program, as well as training in Indigenous Focusing-Oriented Therapy. Her day job in health care analytics is only barely related to her physics PhD.

Board of Advisors:

Adrianne Ross, MD, has been involved with meditation and healing since 1978. Her teaching is influenced by Burmese and Thai streams of Theravada as well as Dzogchen and contemplative practices. She teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to people with chronic pain and illness. She recently retired from working as a family physician to devote more time to personal practice and teaching retreats in Canada and the U.S. She has participated in medical aid work in Tibet.

Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk originally from New York City. After living as a monk in Sri Lanka for twenty-four years, he now resides at Chuang Yen Monastery in upstate New York. Ven. Bodhi is a prolific writer of Buddhist essays and books and has translated and commented extensively on the Pali suttas. He is now in the final stages of a complete translation of the Anguttara Nikaya, to be published by Wisdom Publications.  In 2008 he founded Buddhist Global Relief(BGR), a non-profit organization that provides relief from poverty and hunger among impoverished communities worldwide. In just two years, BGR has launched over fifteen projects in Asia, Africa, and the U.S.

Jack Kornfield, Ph.D has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. He is a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and the Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. Jack has authored numerous books and articles on meditation and spirituality and is on the board of directors for the Foundation for the People of Burma.  He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a husband and father.  His website is: www.jackkornfield.org.