Salma Abdulla, CFA, CFP®, is a stock portfolio manager at Parsonex Financial Services with over 20 years of experience. She has attended numerous in-person and online retreats at IMS and actively participates in Buddhist studies classes. A member of the New York Insight community, she served on the IMS board from November 2016 to July 2023, and returned in July 2024.

Devin Berry is an IMS guiding teacher. A meditator since 1999, his practice is primarily informed by the metta and vipassana teachings of the Insight Meditation tradition. He has undertaken many periods of silent long-term retreat practice. Devin is committed to the personal and collective liberation of marginalized communities knowing that through the integration of reflection and insight, clarity and wisdom give rise to wise action. Devin is the father of two children.

Inger Forland became IMS’s Executive Director in 2017, after serving at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health as Vice President, Marketing and Communications. Prior to that, she spent almost 20 years in management in the publishing industry. Inger has been a dedicated meditator and a student of spiritual philosophy and practice for more than three decades.

Gyano Gibson has practiced across a variety of spiritual traditions since 1974. In 1997, she arrived at IMS from Australia and immediately knew she had found her spiritual home. She then served on staff for almost 22 years until her retirement in 2019, helping to direct the organization’s fundraising and communications activities, and to create, under the Guiding Teachers’ direction, the annual retreat schedules. After marrying in 2020, her immediate family grew from four to 23, including 12 beloved grandchildren.

Joseph Goldstein has taught Buddhist meditation worldwide since 1974. A co-founder and guiding teacher of IMS, he also helped envision and establish BCBS and IMS’s Forest Refuge center. His books include Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening, One Dharma, Insight Meditation and others.

Tara Healey, MEd, is a recognized leader in mindfulness and organizational development who created and directed Mind the Moment, Point32Health’s groundbreaking mindfulness program. She is a longtime IMS yogi and a former Board President.

Ed Hong is a finance and technology professional with over 20 years of industry experience. He is currently overseeing software and data programs for Evercore’s M&A Advisory business as a Managing Director. Ed first sat at IMS in 2007 and joined the Board in 2011, serving terms as Secretary-Treasurer and then President, until 2018. In 2023, Ed returned to the Board, where he serves on the Finance Committee.

Chris Logue has been meditating and attending IMS retreats since 2010. In his professional life, Chris has worked as an attorney in the nonprofit sector for over a decade, including working in the domestic violence and education sectors. Chris is currently at the law firm Hurwit & Associates, which exclusively represents nonprofits. Chris is a proud father to two young girls and innumerable houseplants.

Winnie Nazarko is an IMS guiding teacher. She attended her first meditation retreat in 1981, after a co-worker convinced her that it would be interesting. And it was interesting, just not in the way she expected. After that long weekend with Stephen and Andrea Levine, she knew she had touched something deeply truthful, although she couldn’t quite describe it. It did, however, seem to do with transparency of being, equanimity, and lack of fear.(Read more.)

Zeenat Potia teaches meditation in Buddhist and secular spaces. She has practiced at IMS for over 15 years. Zeenat incorporates her life experience—as a South Asian immigrant, a mother, and a strategic communications professional in higher education, non-profit, and publishing for over 20 years—into her teaching. Her current work integrates mindfulness, 12-step recovery, and Internal Family Systems as a way to heal trauma. She also teaches at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center, where she served on the board from 2012-2019.

Sharon Salzberg, is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is one of the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture over 45 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller, Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness. Her forthcoming release, Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom, is set for release in April of 2023 from Flatiron Books. Her podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed six million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond. www.sharonsalzberg.com