Directors & Officers
Portland 2010. Photo credit: Nancy McGee Wongmo
Ellis Widner has served on the Board of the Little Rock Ecumenical Buddhist Society and is a senior Vajrayana student. Employed as a journalist, he is also a certified Reiki Jin Kei Do practitioner and teacher.
Ellis is our Vice President, Editor, and Manager of Dakini Emporium. He also oversees legal agreements with lamas and artists and facilitates a Dakini Heart Essence sangha in Little Rock. He has a special place in his heart for sacred art and serving the needs of practitioners.
Kunzang Brown is a co-founder of Bodhi House, a retreat center in Olympia, Washington which promotes and supports Dharma. She is a senior Vajrayana student and a Certified Hakomi Practitioner who works in prisons and with the dying.
Kunzang is the Director of Lung Tok Pemay Gatsel, our online learning program (shedra). She also facilitates a Dakini Heart Essence sangha at Bodhi House.
Rikzin Smith is a physical therapist assistant working with the geriatric population in the Austin, Texas. A practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1989, his principal teachers include Lama Tharchin, Khetsun Sangbo Rinpoche, Lama Pema Dorje, and Khenpo Namdrol. After being introduced to The Dakini Heart Essence by Lama Wangmo in 2002, it has become his his primary practice.
Rikzin is a Managing Director and is particularly interested in supporting our sangha. He facilitates a Dakini Heart Essence sangha in Austin, Texas.
LiAnne Hunt is a heart student of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche An accomplished practitioner of Charya Nritya, a Newar classical Vajrayana dance from Nepal, she is the Director of Dance Mandal Boise Ensemble and a Teaching Artist for the Idaho Commission on the Arts.
Originally from Hawaii, Lianne now resides in Boise. She is a Managing Director and facilitates a Dakini Heart Essence sangha in her home. She is especially passionate about East West connections and building worldwide awareness of Yeshe Tsogyal.
Ryan Hunt is our Treasurer and Internet Technology Advisor.