Karen Wilding is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a private practice in Boulder, Colorado. She received her juris doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center and her undergraduate degree from William Jewell College.

She joined the Governing Council in 2016.

A Mahayana student in the Shambhala lineage, Connie is authorized as a Shambhala Guide. Department of the Interior, where among other things she advised the Secretary of the Interior on renewable energy development on public lands and Interior’s regulatory response to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Ĭonnie first came to Drala Mountain Center in 2008 for a retreat on mindfulness as has been returning ever since. In the first term of the Obama Administration, Connie was a political appointee serving as Deputy Solicitor for Energy and Mineral Resources for the U.S. She has served as a board member and board chair for several nonprofits in Colorado.

Prior to law school, Connie was a professional potter and active in feminist politics. She is a former partner in the Denver law firm of Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.Ĭonnie Rogers is the principal of Terra Law Group LLC, practicing in the environmental regulatory field with an emphasis in public lands, permitting, Federal Indian law and historic preservation. He has three adult children and four grandchildren. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Medicine Horse Program, a nonprofit equine assisted psychotherapy facility in Boulder, and as Director and CEO of Ratna Foundation, a nonprofit charitable foundation, which he founded with his wife Margot.Ĭliff has been attending dharma programs at DMC since 1975 and was a student of the Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche who officiated his wedding ceremony with Margot that same year.

He is also the Managing Partner of Gemini Gaming, LLC, which owns and operates a gaming casino in Blackhawk, Colorado. He has served on the boards of directors of numerous public, private and non-profit companies and has been actively involved in the process of capital formation on behalf of his clients for many years. Cliff has been engaged as a principal in his own law firms for over 40 years, emphasizing corporate and securities law in the representation of companies in matters of corporate finance, mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations and public and private offerings.

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