LSRF Team
Raghu Markus
Executive Director
Raghu Markus spent 18 months in India with Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass. He has been involved in music and transformational media since the early 1970s, when he was program director of CKGM-FM in Montreal.
In 1974, he collaborated with Ram Dass on the box set Love Serve Remember. In 1990, he launched Triloka Records, which established itself as a critical leader in the development of world music. For 17 years, Triloka was home to such artists as Krishna Das, Hugh Masekela, Walela, Jai Uttal and transformational media projects that featured Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, and Les Nubians.
Raghu lives in Ojai, California, and is the Executive Director of the Love Serve Remember Foundation. In 2016, he co-founded the Be Here Now Network, where he hosts the Ram Dass Here & Now podcast, as well as his own Mindrolling podcast. He is the producer of Becoming Nobody, a Ram Dass documentary feature film that was released in 2019.
Mangala Dolinar
Project Director & Label Manager
After a transformative spiritual experience in 2018, Mangala got turned onto the teachings of Ram Dass and the wisdom of Neem Karoli Baba. By the following year, she had traveled to India and immersed herself in the bhakti and buddhist teachings and practices. By autumn 2019, Mangala began working for LSRF as Project Manager, assisting with the Becoming Nobody film release and over the years has adopted many hats, including founding Label Manager of Soul Land Records. In her evolution to Project Director, you can see evidence of Mangala's work and influence in our online courses, musical releases, artistic collaborations, livestreams, retreats, external outreach efforts, movies, books, and more.
Mangala has a degree in Psychology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences with a focus in Child Development from the University of Buffalo in NY, where she was born and raised. After exploring various career paths, from Zipline Park manager, to Line Cook and Inpatient Therapist, Mangala's unique skills, experience, talents, and eye for organization have made her the ideal person to oversee the many diverse projects and operations at Love Serve Remember Foundation.
Jackie Dobrinska
Director of Education, Community & Inclusion
Rachael Fisher
Creative Director
Rachael began working with the Love Serve Remember Foundation in 2012, soon after graduating from UNC-Asheville with a degree in Communications and Commercial Media. Her introduction to Ram Dass came only after she became involved with the foundation; she subsequently traveled to India twice to learn about the Bhakti Yoga tradition and follow in Ram Dass’s early footsteps.
Rachael co-founded the Be Here Now Network and over the last decade has helped to produce numerous films, books, digital retreats, and online content to creatively translate Ram Dass's wisdom to a new generation. Rachael's interest in photography, writing, design, jewelry making, travel, and exploring the outdoors is what inspires that creativity. After growing up in Asheville, NC, she now resides in Southern California.
Sunanda Markus
Finance Director
In India in 1972, Sunanda met her guru, Neem Karoli Baba, as well as studied meditation with Theravada Buddhism teacher Shri S.N. Goenka. She has continued her practice of Vipassana meditation since that time, along with actively practicing yoga.
Currently the finance director for the Love Serve Remember Foundation, Sunanda spent decades as the finance director of a small publishing company, while also being involved in the field of contemplative studies. She spent a dozen years as the program coordinator for the Academic Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind, and then managed the grants program for the Mind & Life Institute.
As part of the nonprofit world, Sunanda has served on the boards of the Insight Meditation Society and the Seva Foundation, chairing the foundation for three years. She was an active member of the Seva Guatemala Project, supporting integrated community development. Sunanda currently lives in Montreal.
Kelly Rego
Director of Marketing and Be Here Now Network
Kelly Rego is an Integrated Marketing & Media Specialist. An Emerson College alumni, Kelly has over 15 years experience of facilitating projects into reality. She has worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer with women’s groups and dairy cooperatives in Costa Rica, a media strategist and buyer in New York City, and has produced a full-length documentary.
Kelly is the Marketing Director for Ram Dass’s Love Serve Remember Foundation, as well as the project manager of Be Here Now Network, a podcast network dedicated to spirituality, mindfulness, and personal growth. She currently lives in Maui.
Rita Ryan
Chief Information Officer
Rita Ryan joined the Love Serve Remember Foundation as the first Director in 2008. Her goal to bring Ram Dass’s wisdom teachings to a new generation of wisdom-seekers via the Internet continues today through LSRF’s archival media collection on RamDass.org. She has led the Foundation in the collection and publication of Ram Dass’s archival media archives across five decades of his life’s work and wisdom. The collection includes over 17,000 audio and video assets of his lectures, interviews, print publications, photos, artwork, personal letters, and memorabilia.
Educated in Software Engineering and a UCLA alumnus, Rita spent 25 years in technology consulting roles to major global corporations. She has pursued lifelong education in sustainability science and marine science and holds numerous certifications.
Rita resides on the island of Maui with her husband, daughter, and 4 furry kids. She is a community organizer serving many local non-profit organizations. She chairs the Hawaii State Chapter of The Climate Reality Project, Chairs the Maui County Climate Action Advisory Committee, is Maui Nui rep for 350.org Hawaii and has a seat on the Maui Council of the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust.
Josh Weinstein
Webstore Warehouse Operations
While at art school in his early 20s, after eating psilocybin mushrooms, having a complete psychological and spiritual meltdown, and being transformed as a person, Josh began his spiritual quest.
He was captured early on by the late saint and guru Neem Karoli Baba when Ram Dass’ classic book Be Here Now appeared on his coffee table. Since then, Josh has traveled to India in the footsteps of Ram Dass to visit the Hanuman temples consecrated by his guru. Concurrently, he has been studying and making art in addition to immersing himself in Sufi and Buddhist practices under the guidance of his spiritual teachers for the past 15 years.
Today, Josh is a skilled artist and adept practitioner of Sufism, Tantric Buddhism and Bhakti Yoga. When he is not wandering throughout the woods of Western North Carolina, he enjoys making and showing his artwork as well as leading Sufi Zikr, Buddhist meditation, and traditional Hindu kirtan for his local community.
Josh received his Bachelors Degree in Fine art from the Ringling College of Art & Design in 2010. He began working for the Love Serve Remember Foundation in 2021 where he currently manages the web store’s warehouse operations and offers aesthetic consultation for new product development.
Nancy Worthington-Broyles
Development Ambassador
Nancy comes to LSRF from a lifetime of service and bringing communities together. She uses her art world platform to advocate for the transformative power of the arts in spirituality and healing. As did one of her favorite spiritual guides, Howard Thurman. Nancy believes in the healing power of the arts to enrich the health and well being of communities. She has served on many arts related boards that are close to her heart while raising funds and awareness by curating special events. Through public speaking and media outreach NWB effectively raises awareness about the positive impact of the arts on popular culture.
The Houston Symphony, The AIDS Foundation Houston, the Escape Family Resource Center and The Rothko Chapel are amongst her favorite non-profits.
A self-proclaimed Hindu-Episcopalian, Nancy has many spiritual teachers who have influenced her life. Number one is Paramahansa Yogananda. She has been a devotee for more than 25 years and has spent quite a bit of time in India on pilgrimage with Self-Realization Fellowship.
Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass are also at the top of her list. Her direct experience with Ram Dass led her to this work with LSRF which she considers to be a calling. The path of the mystics, civil rights and applied Jungian psychology are all guiding lights. Through these she believes the restoration of meaning and conscious living are possible.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.” - Howard Thurman
