IMCC's Board of Directors comprises a mix of longtime sangha members and members who have joined our community within the last few years. The board fills vacancies by identifying sangha members who have participated actively in the community as volunteers or teachers and have special skills that will enhance the Board's mission to determine policies, procedures and regulations, provide fiscal oversight, assist in raising funds to finance the organization when needed, provide leadership and assume leadership roles, and monitor organizational performance. All members are eligible for a position on the board; if you would like to be considered, contact the Operations Director.
The Board meets every other month and holds an all-day retreat once per year to attend to business and consider larger issues of policies, programs, and long-term growth strategy. By law, the board must have a quorum to approve proposed policies or decisions. The Board's Executive Committee, comprised of the President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, and an at-large member, meets every other month.
If you would like to contact one of the Board Members by email, use the Contact Us Form. If you wish to direct your question to a specific Board Member, indicate the name in the Subject line and your message will be forwarded to him/her.
Bill Anderson, Treasurer. Bill started meditating with IMCC at Common Grounds in 2016 shortly after discovering Thich Nhat Hanh. He has found his practice to be a compassionate way of finding and practicing goodness and beauty and to be a way to wisdom, freedom and peace. He first came to Charlottesville in 1976 to earn his MBA and met his wife. They returned in 2003 after his career in finance in NYC, Miami, Richmond and Ithaca. Living on a farm with his Corgi Roughouse, he has developed an interest in gardening. His daughter lives in NC and his son and grandsons are in Santa Barbara.
Laura DeVault (she/her) has been a long-time member of IMCC, with an extended hiatus for a 3-year stint living in glorious Monterey, CA. In addition to being a Board Member, she is an at-large member of the Executive Committee. She's been meditating since 2006, and finds the benefits accruing at a gratifying pace. She's a Retreat Manager for IMCC and a member of several KM groups. You'll find her teaching a bit for IMCC at Common Ground and Monday evenings at Fluvanna Women's Correctional Center. She is currently participating in a mindfulness teacher training with the Mindfulness Training Institute in San Francisco.
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Mindfulness is central to her work as a psychotherapist, and she regularly attends residential retreats to support and strengthen her practice. Barb enjoys music, being in nature, creating things with clay, and spending time with her husband David and their two fairly mindful adult children.
She is native of Virginia and holds an undergraduate degree in Rhetoric & Communications from UVA. Upon graduating from UVA, she began her career with State Farm Insurance. She is active in the community as a yoga & meditation teacher at UVA, board member at Common Ground, birth doula with Birth Sisters of Charlottesville and renting artist at McGuffey Art Center.
Marylouise Kelley (she/her) felt welcomed into her new spiritual community at IMCC when she moved to Charlottesville in 2017 after retiring from a career devoted to advocacy for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and child maltreatment at the local and national levels. Marylouise began her practice at the Insight Meditation Community of Washington With the support of IMCC’s Aspiring Teachers Program, she became an IMCC teacher in 2020. She also serves on the IMCC Guiding Teachers Council, participates in Racial Affinity Groups, and co- facilitates the Sangha Leader Cohort. Marylouise earned her doctorate in Social Work from Catholic University in 2003. In her spare time, she loves to hang out with her grandsons and children, and hike with friends, husband Dan and their dog. She also enjoys kayaking, pickleball, yoga, reading, and dabbling with the mandolin.
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