Program Directors
Mar Aige, BFA, MA
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program in Spanish & Portuguese
Elazar Aslan, MBA, CPC
Director, Boundless Leadership
Fiona Brandon, MA, MFT
Director, Compassion-Based Resilience Training
Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, Embodiment Year: Psychotherapy
Chantelle Brown, MSW, LMSW
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program: Embodiment Year: Psychosocial Change
Daniel Donohue, MIA
Executive Director
Rahshaana Green, MBA, PMP, RYT
Director of Equity and Strategic Partnerships
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, Live Learning
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, Blended Learning
Diego Hangartner, PhD, PCC
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, Blended Learning
Pilar Hurtado
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program in Spanish & Portuguese
Geri Loizzo
Director of Programming
Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD
Founder and Academic Director, Nalanda Institute
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Cornell University
Kristen Rae Stevens, AyP
Co-Director, Contemplative Psychotherapy Program: Embodiment Year: Psychosocial Change
Support Staff
Diane Bertolo, Design
Tom Damrauer, Information Technology
Rochelle Nechin, Accountant
Board of Directors
Elazar Aslan, MBA, CPC
CEO, Caterfly Solutions
Doris Chang, PhD
Associate Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work and a research scientist at the Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Mary Charlson, MD
Professor and Chief of the Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluative Sciences Research, Weill Cornell Medical College
Tom Damrauer, MLS
Information Specialist
Jennifer DuBrul
Teacher/Editor
Pablo J. Farias, MD, Vice Chairperson
Lecturer, Harvard Medical School
Randy Glatt
Designer
Vance W. LaVelle, MBA, Treasurer
CEO Managing Partner, Global Consulting Group
Geri Loizzo
Director of Programming, Nalanda Institute
Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD, Chairperson
Founder and Director, Nalanda Institute
Peggy Neu, Secretary
President, Meatless Monday Campaigns
Elizabeth Rovere, PsyD
Clinical Psychologist
Board of Advisors
Ryüichi Abé, MPhil, PhD
Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Harvard University
Leslie Blackhall, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
Yeshi Donden, DTM
Former Personal Physician to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Father Philip Eichner, SM
President, Kellenberg Memorial High School, Uniondale, New York
Paul Fulton, EdD
Co-founder and Course Director, Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy
Phillip Glass
Composer and Vice President, Tibet House US
Daniel Goleman, PhD
Health Psychologist and Writer
Edward Kenny, MD
Assistant Professor, Columbia University Psychoanalytic Institute
Vasant Lad, BAMS, MASc
Founder and Director, The Ayurvedic Institute
Mary C. Pearl, PhD
Dean, CUNY Macaulay Honors College
Kenneth Porter, MD
Psychiatrist
Lobsang Rapgay, PhD
Director of Behavioral Medicine Clinic and Program, Semel Institute, UCLA
Robert Rosenthal, MD
Co-President, Foundation for Inner Peace
Sharon Salzberg
Author and Co-founder, Insight Meditation Society
Dan Siegel, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA, Founding Co-Director, Mindful Awareness Research Center
Robert Thurman, PhD
Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies, Columbia University and President, Tibet House US
Sander Tideman, PhD
Senior Research Associate, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and Managing Director of Mind & Life Europe