We are an all-volunteer board donating our time to the Buddhist Insight Network to help connect insight meditators, teachers, sangha leaders, and retreat centers in an interactive web of shared ideas and inspiration. As the Insight Meditation community grows, so do wisdom, awareness, and compassion for the benefit of all beings. If you share that vision, perhaps you'd like to join us!

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Board of Directors

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Rick Donham is the primary leader of the Moab Sangha, one of a number of southwest meditation groups supported by Desert Dharma, whose guiding teacher is Susie Harrington. Retired from a career in public mental health, Rick has had a daily meditative practice since 2010. He completed Susie Harrington's Dharma-in-Daily-Living course in 2015. He has attended many long retreats and completed Spirit Rock’s Advanced Practitioner Program. Rick lives in Moab, Utah.

Stephanie Noble, BIN VP, joined the board in 2019 and served as president from 2022 to 2025. She created the Intersangha and Teaching Sangha email groups, as well as the monthly Intersangha Tea on Zoom. She is responsible for the BIN newsletter, website, and correspondence. She is the author of Asking In, Six Empowering Questions Only You Can Answer, Invitation to Insight, a full-length collection of meditative poems, and an upcoming novel that explores the Buddha's Eightfold Noble Path. She founded Marin Insight Women's Sangha and guest teaches at other sanghas. She shares her dhamma talks and guided meditations at Stephanienoble.com. She has been a member of the Spirit Rock Meditation Center since 1994, where she has attended numerous retreats, classes, and courses. She and her husband, the artist Will Noble, live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
 

Nina Raddy is a co-founder of Community Village, a cross-lineage meditation community for people in their 20’s & 30’s in San Francisco. She has been practicing meditation since 2012 and is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher through the MMTCP program of Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, mentored by Insight Meditation teacher James Baraz.

Nina is interested in ways of inspiring young(ish) meditators to walk the path and exploring how to create & maintain community and spiritual friendship among them within today’s western culture and in a rapidly changing world. 

Nina is originally from Berlin, Germany.

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Caleb Tenenbaum is a co-founder of Community Village, a community-first approach to meditation oriented towards people in their 20’s & 30’s. He’s interested in cross-lineage community-building with a focus on supporting wholesome friendships amongst meditators. He has been practicing meditation since 2012, primarily in the Insight Meditation tradition, with influence from the Plum Village tradition too. He is based in San Francisco with his wife & sangha-building partner, Nina Raddy. In his free time, he likes to play table tennis, cook, hike, and see live music.

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Susan Weir has been leading sittings and teaching insight meditation classes and retreats since 1999. She has studied in the Gurdjieff, Zen, Vipassana, and Advaita traditions.

Susan founded Insight Meditation Ann Arbor in 2012 and teaches continuing and non-dual classes and retreats at the center and as a guest teacher elsewhere. She and her husband Lou, also a dharma teacher, live in the Ann Arbor area of Michigan.

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Mark Wiesman, BIN Treasurer, is an insight practice teacher with an emphasis on early Buddhist teachings. Mark was first introduced to vipassana meditation and practice in 1984

and has attended several silent retreats and completed courses in Satipatthana and Anapannasati guided by Bhikkhu Analayo. He currently shares the Dhamma with friends at the Mindfulness Outreach Initiative in Omaha, Nebraska, and serves on the board of Mid America Dharma.

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Steve Williger, BIN president since the summer of 2025, is the president of Insight Meditation Cleveland. Retired from careers in both psychiatric social work (MSSA) and law (JD), he has had a daily meditation practice since approximately 2000. Steve was certified in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in 2015, and successfully completed the 10-week Yale University course, 'The Science of Well-Being' in 2020. He provides introductory meditation sessions for law firms, bar associations, colleges, social workers and therapists, museums, non-profit organizations, first responders, and private groups. 

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