Karen Wilding is a long-term Tibetan Buddhist practitioner and a board member of Shambhala Mountain Center. Karen lives her with her husband Mark Wilding in Boulder and has her own private practice of psychotherapy. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Karen met Tamdin Wangdu few days after he first came to the United States in 1993 and she has been a good friend, a mentor, and a mother-figure ever since. She helps TVP to cultivate support in her wide community network and has been a key board member since 2007. 

Jerry Colonna is a Buddhist practitioner, a successful businessman through investment in technology and finance sectors and father of three children. Jerry has served on over 20 nonprofit boards: New York Times, 9/11 Financial Recovery Fund, and Naropa University to name just a few. He now spends much of his time giving back by mentoring CEOs and nonprofit executives and giving time, energy and funds to nonprofit organizations. Jerry first became a donor to TVP and then became active in 2010 after his involvement in the Yushu earthquake response.  www.themonsterinyourhead.com

Pamela Logan was the founder and Executive Director of Kham Aid Foundation, which implemented many community development projects in the Kham region of Tibet from 2000 to 2011. Kham Aid officially closed their operation in 2010 and transferred their scholarship fund to Tibetan Village Project. A year later, Pamela has joined TVP’s board and brings her 11 years of firsthand experience implementing projects in Tibet. She is a PhD engineer, author, and lives in Washington State. 

Joseph Braidish is the managing director of Newbridge Development Services and specializes in a business management and organizational effectiveness, strategic business development, value chain optimization, and executive leadership development. Prior to joining TVP’s board, Joe was Executive director of All Together International Now, a Boulder based nonprofit organization that is dedicated to providing surgical care and rehabilitation for children in Nepal, Tibet and India with severe spinal problems.

Jeff Cohn is a long-term Tibetan Buddhist practitioner and a member of the Shambhala Community who lives in Boulder. Jeff started and managed Allegro Coffee Company, an import, roasting and wholesale distribution venture for several years, and then sold it to Whole Foods Market. Now Jeff spends much of his time as an advisor and consultant, and supports wellbeing of both practitioners and Dharma center related activities through his Sangha Fund. He has served on TVP’s board for 3 years. 

Marv Ross is a professional photographer who first travelled to Tibet in 1986 to visit his Buddhist teacher’s home village in Surmang, Kham. Since then, Marv returns to Tibet often and joined a Conscious Journeys trip in 2011 as an official TVP photographer to visit several villages where TVP has projects. After returned from Tibet, Marv helped to create a traveling photo exhibit for Tibetan Village Project. The first show debuted in Fort Collins at the Global village Museum, in November 2011.  Marv plans to continue using photography as way of raising awareness and funds and has recently joined TVP’s board. Marv lives in Boulder and works as a research and development technician.

Tamdin Wangdu: In the summer of 2001, Tamdin learned that his father had died at age 57 after suffering four long days of acute stomach pain. Not a single healthcare worker was available in or near Tamdin’s village to prevent his untimely death or even to determine its cause. Tamdin believes that just knowing how to perform CPR could have saved his life. In memory of his father, Tamdin started the Tibetan Village Project in 2001 to fund a medical treatment and prevention program in his village. In the years since, TVP  has expanded its programs to support community development with a focus on social enterprise program that include skills training, business education and enterprise loans. Tamdin received a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and worked for Accenture as IT Consultant for several years prior to becoming the executive director of TVP. Tamdin travels between his adopted home in Colorado and Tibet.