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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Terry B. Sculley
Marsha Clark has over 30 years experience as a Speech Pathologist, Program Specialist, Quality Improvement Trainer and Educational Consultant serving children, parents and community agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the recipient of the 1996 Valley of Hearts Education Award from Parents Helping Parents. Marsha volunteers at Tara Home, a residential facility for the dying, located at Land of Medicine Buddha, in Soquel, California. She received her M.A. in Education from San Jose State University. Stephen DeBerry makes investments in companies that align strong financial returns with positive social impact. He is the Chief Investment Officer at Kapor Enterprises and the founder of Bronze Investments which provides mission-aligned asset management to foundation endowments and high net worth individuals. He is a Trustee and member of the investment committee at The California Endowment, a board member of the Association of Marshall Scholars and Chairman of Friends of New Orleans. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology with highest honors from UCLA as well as a Master's degree in Social Anthropology and an MBA from Oxford University. He is a Marshall Scholar and a Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. James R. Doty, M.D. is a Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University. In addition to being a neurosurgeon, he is also an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has given support to a number of charitable organizations including Children as the Peacemakers, Global Healing and Family & Children Services. These charities support a variety of programs throughout the world including those for HIV/AIDS support, blood banks and medical care in third world countries and peace initiatives. Most recently, he founded Project Compassion working with both the Stanford Neurosciences Institute and the Stanford Tibetan Studies Initiative examining the neural basis for compassion and altruism. Thupten Jinpa Langri is Adjunct Professor at McGill University (Montreal), and Principal (English) translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK) and the Lharam Geshe (equiv. Doctorate in Divinity) from Ganden monastic university, India. He is also a Research Assistant in the School of Medicine at Stanford University. Thupten Jinpa has been a member of Mind and Life Institute, Colorado, USA, since 1987, and a senior scholarly consultant on contemplative studies. He is the founding board member of the Institute of Tibetan Classics, Montreal, and has served as its president and the general editor for The Library of Tibetan Classics series since 1999. He is also on the board of Trustees of The Camellia Foundation, UK, the advisory board of The Orient Foundation, U.K., the Meridian Trust, U.K. and of the Global Ethics and Religion Forum, Chapman University, USA. Randy Taran founded Spring Communications in 1993 to develop and produce youth-oriented television and film programming. Her most recent venture is SpringBoard to Peace, a non-profit organization that develops peace-related projects in collaboration with other groups, including The Dalai Lama Foundation and Roots & Shoots. Recent projects include The Peace Wall and the film Focused on Peace. Randy received her MBA from New York University in Marketing & International Business. Tenzin Tethong is the founder of key Tibet initiatives in the U.S. including the Tibet Fund, Tibet House-New York, and the International Campaign for Tibet. He is a former Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama in New York and Washington, D.C., and former Chairman of the Kashag, the Tibetan Cabinet. Mr. Tethong currently serves as Chairman of the Committee of 100 for Tibet and as a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He is also President of The Dalai Lama Foundation. Bonnie Thorne is Director of Development and Outreach for the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she works with Dr. Richard Davidson, pioneer neuroscientist in the world of brain research with meditators from the wisdom traditions. She is also Development Director of the Institute of Tibetan Classics. Bonnie was the Founder and Director of Diamond Heart Foundation of Canada, where she provided leadership and outreach for healthcare services for the disadvantaged and raised seed funds for hospice and palliative care initiatives and seed projects. She has also served as Senior Development Director for The Impact Foundation since 2003, playing crucial roles in strategic planning and program development. |
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