The Shambhala Interim Board

Dear Shambhala Community,

It is hard to believe that we are halfway through our 12-month term. Since our term began last October, we have endeavored to get out monthly updates, as well as other critical information as it was available. We feel strongly about operating transparently and finding ways to connect with you. This goal of open communication is reflected in our release of the Kalapa Council commissioned Wickwire Holm and An Olive Branch reports, which we delivered to the community as promised. At the same time, we are trying to balance the need for transparency without overloading the community with information. We are now transitioning into a time of building more stability and health for the Shambhala community. Going forward, we may shift to Board updates every two months, but send other important messages as they become available.

Decisions

• The IB will put out a community-wide survey and is now working on topics and approach with help from the Process Team.
• Create a communication link with the Process Team. A subset of the Interim Board is meeting with members of the Process Team steering committee on a bi-weekly basis to share updates and coordinate efforts, particularly around the recommendations of An Olive Branch.
• Create an advisory group on Practice and Education matters. We have begun a monthly meeting between members of the Interim Board (IB), and representatives from the greater mandala, including Charlie Goetzl, International Director of Practice and Education; a representative Acharya (recently John Rockwell);  Janet Solyntjes, Chair of the Shastri Council; and David Brown, Executive Secretary to Shambhala.
• Move Shambhala Online, Kalapa Publications and the Shambhala IT group from Kalapa Media in the Sakyong Potrang to Shambhala Global Services.

Link to IB Webinar

On March 30 the IB held a webinar with Shambhala leaders.  About 120 people attended. Topics included the relationship between the Potrang and Shambhala, the ownership relationships between local centers/groups and Shambhala, an update on the Sakyong as well as other updates.  Please access the link to the 90-minute video here.

Interim Board Meeting in Boulder

The IB will be traveling to Boulder for our second face-to-face working meeting from May 16-19. In addition to extensive board meetings, we will also be meeting with various representatives of our community there. There is a public community event at the Boulder Shambhala Center on Thursday from 7-9:00 p.m., where we will hold a Q&A session followed by a reception with community members. If you are in the area during this time, please join us. We look forward to connecting with the Front Range community and leaders while we are there.

Marpa House

We appreciate receiving the many thoughtful and heartfelt communications concerning the proposed sale of Marpa House. We remain committed to finding the best possible solution to address our financial challenges. As we described in our recent Financial Report,  many centers and groups are examining their willingness and/or ability to make financial contributions to SGS, and the resulting loss of revenues requires us to pursue the sale of an asset. Along these lines, IB members have met with a potential community-based buyer group for Marpa House in the last month.

Selling either the Boulder or Halifax court is not a viable option for Shambhala in that the Sakyong Potrang, not Shambhala, owns and controls these properties. As of this writing, the Potrang has put the Boulder Court on the market for sale. We will continue to update the community as we make our next steps on this important topic.

Care and Conduct

After releasing An Olive Branch’s (AOB) reports and recommendations, the IB is now working on how to best go forward with making Shambhala safer, more accountable, and more aware of inequity and wrong use of power. The term “harm” has been overused (by us, and by the community at large); and we need to begin the deep work required to look at the specificity of harmful behaviors–sexual misconduct, power abuse, racism, discrimination–to change our community. The Process Team has recently announced that they will examine AOB’s recommendations for our community, and we ask that each local community familiarize themselves with both our existing Care and Conduct Policy, and the Code of Ethics developed by AOB. The IB is grateful that the Process Team will soon begin engaging local communities. As well, it is the fiduciary responsibility of the IB to ensure that the organization grows healthier, safer, and more equitable. The IB is comprised of 8 ordinary community members–it goes without saying that we need the entire community to join us in dismantling the structures that have enabled abuse and misconduct in Shambhala.

As we described in our cover letter to both the AOB and Wickwire Holm reports, both organizations were bound by their professional standards of confidentiality; therefore, the IB did not receive the names of individuals who were accused. We ask that any such report be submitted to the International Care and Conduct Panel. We are currently working to expand and improve our existing Care and Conduct Policy and Procedure, which at this time is limited to reporting harm by an office holder. We are also exploring how to train MIs, guides, teachers, and office holders in creating safer communities. As previously reported, we are also examining our current policies around vetting and background checks to explore the processes by which people are granted leadership positions in the mandala.

We are actively discussing how to facilitate community dialogue around misconduct, abuse, and healing for our community. We are looking to work with the structures within Shambhala, our policies and what we can do to better educate and sensitize ourselves to preventing and working with harm. We want to respect all individuals who report harm and, in addition, those who do not want to report. We want to strengthen our community practices for adjudicating harm and find a way to instill trust in what we intend and what we actually do. We also encourage the Sakyong to also work on these important topics which are critical to the well-being of our community.

Building a Culture of Listening and Community Involvement

The IB has been contemplating ways to gather wide-scale feedback across our community and membership base. We have some large decisions before us, and would love to know what the community feels about them. To that end, we will be initiating regular surveys to the sangha to listen and hear from the community on a broad basis in a structured way. These surveys will be short in nature, and directly address questions we are contemplating as a Board and leadership team. Your voice will be considered in our decision-making process. Once we have made a decision, we will report back to the community on the decisions we made as a result of it. You will start to receive those surveys in the next couple of weeks. We look forward to getting wide-scale feedback from the community on these surveys as a way for us to be connected to the voice of the whole community.

Staffing Changes

As we described in our March update, Shambhala is no longer providing any funding to the Sakyong Potrang with the exception of paying our share of the Kalapa Centre office space in Halifax. Because there were various staff roles that were shared between Shambhala and the Potrang, the IB has worked hard to more clearly delineate those who are working for the centers and groups. To better align staff positions within the organization and to meet budgetary issues, Potrang departments including Shambhala Publications, Shambhala Online, and IT will now move to Shambhala and report to the IB. In addition, David Brown will become the Executive Secretary to Shambhala and take on additional responsibilities relating to centers and groups. The individuals in these areas will join the existing staff in Practice and Education, Finance, Communications and Marketing, Kasung, Government, and Economy as part of Shambhala Global Services (SGS). We are very excited about their joining SGS and look forward to working more directly with all of the individuals in these areas and their continuing to offer their services and leadership to the community.

Shambhala Appointments and Retirements

We would like to share with you the following retirements and appointments across the Mandala. To those people who have left, we thank you for your endless effort serving the community. Many of these individuals have publicly shared their reasons for stepping down; each person’s account is nuanced and distinct so we wish not to gloss over their reasons –including a feeling that they were appointed by the Sakyong and can no longer serve as his representative–with a neutral term like “retirement.” We wish to acknowledge the personal struggle faced by many leaders at this time. We would also like to welcome those individuals who are stepping up to accept leadership roles.  Please click here to read the full list of retirements and appointments.

We continue to read all of your emails and appreciate that we are continuing to share and explore our connection and relationship to Shambhala.  You may continue to email us at board@shambhala.org.

Sincerely,

The Interim Board

Veronika Bauer
Mark Blumenfeld
Martin Bouey
John Cobb
Jen Crow
Sara Lewis
Susan Ryan
Paulina Varas

Dear Shambhala Members,

Below, please find a link to access the Interim Board’s current financial report for the Shambhala community. Our intention is to provide a clear and understandable representation of our current financial situation and the IB’s financial plans for the near term.

Key points that we want all community members to be aware of include:

• Revenue is down almost 60% from the beginning of 2018.
• Shambhala does not pay any living expenses for the Sakyong, the Sakyong Wangmo or their children. Funding attributable to support of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche teaching activities (editing, translation, publication support and staff assistance for travel while teaching and writing) was reduced in November 2018, has been cut further this quarter and will end completely by May 31.
• Operating expense payments to the Potrang are limited to cover rent for shared office space.
• Shambhala has debt of more than $1.3 million USD due this August. At this time, we do not have sufficient revenue to pay these loans back through operations and are moving toward selling Marpa House to clear this debt and have sufficient operating capital to restructure Shambhala.
• We have decreased operating expenditures down to the minimum resources required for basic organizational needs, and will still most likely end this year with an operating deficit of approximately ($118,000).

Please click here to access the full March 2019 financial report. Please note that you will need to log in with your Shambhala member credentials. If you have issues accessing your member login, contact info@shambhala.org. We plan to provide this level of financial information quarterly and hope that you find it helpful.

Thank you for your continued support,

The Interim Board
Veronika Bauer
Mark Blumenfeld
Martina Bouey
John Cobb
Jen Crow
Sara Lewis
Susan Ryan
Paulina Varas

Dear Shambhala Community:

In July of 2018, the Kalapa Council engaged the services of An Olive Branch, an independent third-party organization, to perform a variety of services in the wake of complaints raised about ethical misconduct on the part of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and other leaders and community members. Their assignment has now concluded.

Through our work with An Olive Branch, Shambhala intended to provide direct support to individuals who had been harmed within Shambhala and to begin the process of understanding and changing the structural and institutional processes that allowed misconduct and abuse to occur. The Interim Board wishes to acknowledge what has occurred, the impact it has had on individual lives, and express our deepest apology to those who have experienced harm in any Shambhala program or environment.

We are releasing all of the materials that An Olive Branch has delivered to the Interim Board. These include:

The Listening Post Report, derived from the listening post service open from September 2018-December 2018 that was available to current or past members of the Shambhala community to receive support around various types of harm they experienced in the sangha. The report is a compilation of data, themes and quotations from these phone, video or written contacts with An Olive Branch. We received the final version on March 13, 2019.

The Final Report which was written for the Interim Board, however, we would like to share it with the entire community as it contains An Olive Branch’s recommendations for Shambhala. We received the final report on March 14, 2019.

The Code of Ethics, a new set of suggested policies and grievance procedures for community care and conduct. We sent this to the Process Team Steering Committee when they were seated, and have asked the Steering Committee to work with us on soliciting feedback from the community on the view, scope and feasibility of this proposed policy.

Please continue reading for the links to access the reports.

Scope and Purpose of The Listening Post

An Olive Branch was contracted to provide support, not to investigate claims. In this way, their scope and purpose is very different from a legal investigation. Reporters were not “investigated;” witnesses were not contacted; stories were not interrogated for veracity; reporters were not deemed “credible” or not (as is done in a legal investigation), and names were not disclosed to the accused for the purpose of getting both sides of the story. In fact, we recognize that to do so would be to put those who have experienced harm through yet another difficult process. Many who called into the Listening Post had already told their story to someone in Shambhala and were not believed or taken seriously. Therefore, it was critical to this process that individuals be taken at their word and not assessed for credibility.

Decision Process to Share the Listening Post

We would like to share openly with the community our process around deciding to share the Listening Post report in full. We received letters from sangha members, imploring us that flooding the community with graphic narratives of sexual violence that has occurred over the last 40 years would only continue to traumatize the community. Some people pointed out that we could not confirm the veracity of reports, thereby requesting that we not publish what they saw as unverified reports. Others wrote us insisting that withholding the Listening Post report would be seen as a cover-up, or concealment by the Interim Board. The Interim Board was not unanimous in its decision to distribute the Listening Post report with verbatim interview transcripts included. The majority decided, however, that withholding or summarizing portions of the Report would be seen as concealing data that the community had a right to read—or not read—without editing.

Issues of Confidentiality

We have also struggled with the issue of confidentiality of the reporters of harm. Even though An Olive Branch did not include names or locations in their report, many stories may be easily identifiable. There are also second- and third-hand reports, giving us no way of knowing if those involved consented to their stories being told by others who were there.

After receiving the report, we requested that An Olive Branch contact each person whose story is told in the form of a direct quote to solicit their explicit consent for their stories to be included in a report that would be sent to the Shambhala community. An Olive Branch informed us that many reporters wanted their stories to be public; however, we worried that not everyone who called The Listening Post understood or consented to a public release of their stories in the form of direct quotes. While this process delayed the release of the report because it took time for An Olive Branch staff to get back in communication with everyone whose story was included in their report, we felt it would be irresponsible, if not unethical, to publicize direct quotes of those who did not explicitly consent to it.

A significant number of reporters, upon being contacted, did not consent to having their story made public. Some reporters asked to revise their quotes. And some consented to their quotes being shared as-is. On March 12, we received a revised Listening Post report from An Olive Branch, this time only including direct quotes for people who consented to a public release of their stories.

As with the Wickwire Holm process, the Interim Board has not been given names of the reporters or the accused. When the accused was a current teacher or office holder, An Olive Branch encouraged reporters to contact the Care and Conduct Panel so that cases could be investigated. In some instances, reports were made to Care and Conduct, and they are under investigation. Some reporters expressed distrust that the current leadership would handle cases appropriately. A significant number of people indicated that they had already tried to report, formally or informally, within Shambhala and that they were ignored or did not receive a fair process. Because we do not have names, we again urge anyone who has experienced harm to contact both the proper authorities and careandconduct@shambhala.org so that these cases can be addressed.

We are hopeful that the Process Team will facilitate community dialogue around existing structures of reporting and care so that we may improve them.

Reflections on Viewing the Listening Post Report

We encourage each person to reflect on whether they would like to view the enclosed Listening Post report. Rather than taking a paternalistic stance, which might lead the community to believe we are covering up misconduct, we felt that each person could make their own decision as to whether viewing the reports at this time was in their best interest.

**Please know in advance that there are graphic narratives of sexual violence contained in the Listening Post report**

There are instances of child abuse included in the Listening Post report. An Olive Branch staff are considered mandated reporters and they have notified the appropriate authorities according to state legislation where the abuse occurred (see Appendix 5 within Listening Post report for more detail on mandated reporting). The Interim Board requests that all instances of child abuse, sexual assault, or any other illegal activity be reported appropriately to the police; Shambhala should not attempt to adjudicate crimes internally. However, it is also important for Care and Conduct to be included in such reporting so that appropriate steps may be taken internally.

You can access all three documents from An Olive Branch on the Shambhala Community Care page. Please scroll to the “Reports from An Olive Branch” section of the webpage to download the reports.

An Olive Branch Recommendations

As consultants to Shambhala, An Olive Branch submitted a final report detailing their work and making a set of recommendations to the Interim Board. Although this report was intended for the board, we wish to share it with the community. In this report, there are a wide range of recommendations about changes Shambhala could make at the organizational level to create a safer community. We would like the community to review these recommendations as we believe they can help frame needful discussions. It will take time for the Interim Board to dialogue with the the sangha and Shambhala Process Teams to determine how to best relate to them.

Next Steps

At this time, there is a working group tasked with improving processes for vetting teachers and office holders in Shambhala. This group is comprised of Interim Board members, the Care and Conduct Panel, and representatives from Practice and Education. Alongside this vetting process, we are considering a variety of child protection policies and looking at additional safeguards for any person in Shambhala who will be around children. We recommend that the community continue to look at training for teachers, MIs, and leaders around power and harm.

The Shambhala community can no longer deny or ignore sexual violence, harassment, and other forms of structural violence. At this critical time, we ask the entire sangha to reflect on what needs to change, and what we wish to preserve. In this regard, we are eager for the Process Team to begin their work, and we intend to do whatever we can to support their efforts.

These reports are shining light on longstanding systems of harm and abuse within Shambhala. We have an opportunity to demonstrate how a community can see itself clearly, learn from its mistakes and act decisively to better itself. The Interim Board is committed to doing this work and we invite all members to join us on this journey.

Wishing gentleness and kindness to all,

The Interim Board
Veronika Bauer
Mark Blumenfeld
Martina Bouey
John Cobb
Jen Crow
Sara Lewis
Susan Ryan
Paulina Varas

Dear Shambhala Sangha,

We have turned our focus on recent events, including the Sakyong’s communication that he will step back from teaching and administration for the foreseeable future. The Interim Board continues to hold the intention to sustain Shambhala.  We hope that the community can understand that we need time to work on the best courses of action. Our priority is to keep in close communication with the community as we do so. If you have missed any of our recent communications, you can find links to all of the Interim Board letters on our website.

The report below is our regular update to the community, informing you about our decisions and ongoing projects.

March Update to the Community

The Interim Board has continued managing the Shambhala organization’s finances and structure as well as relating to issues of care and conduct. We have now completed four months of our tenure and have a clearer picture of some of these issues. We are in the process of generating proposals to the community about next steps. The Interim Board has also begun meeting with the Process Team Steering Committee and we look forward to ongoing collaboration with them.

We meet regularly as a Board once a week and with all of our working committees at least weekly. We have also begun regular meetings with Shambhala Global Services staff, as well as participating directly in calls to Center Directors and Group Leaders. We also continue to receive many questions about various topics, including the Wickwire Holm report, finances, and more. We have posted responses to these questions as a Frequently Asked Questions section of the Interim Board website. You can access those FAQs here.

DECISIONS

The Interim Board has made the following decisions since January 1, 2019:

• To propose to the community the selling of an asset in order to meet debt and operating obligations.
• To release to the community all three of the Wickwire Holm investigative reports and a summary of reports that did not fall within the investigative scope.
• To release 2018 financials and a 2019 budget to the community. We plan to release these reports in the next few weeks.
• To share the findings of An Olive Branch with the community. Please read on for further details.

CARE AND CONDUCT

Wickwire Holm Report

The Wickwire Holm report release was delayed while we waited on the final report from Ms. Selina Bath, the Wickwire Holm investigative attorney. On February 3, 2019, one day after receiving the final reports, we sent a cover letter, summary report and all of the investigative reports we received to the community. You can access all of those communications here.

An Olive Branch Report

An Olive Branch completed its Listening Post services to the community on December 31, 2018.  The Interim Board had hoped to send An Olive Branch’s findings at the same time we released the Wickwire Holm report. An Olive Branch needed more time to complete their final report, so we decided to release the Wickwire Holm report on its own. We received the first of two promised An Olive Branch reports at the end of January and met with An Olive Branch on February 21, two days after receiving their final report.  After that meeting, we requested An Olive Branch to seek explicit consent from those whose anonymous stories may appear in the form of direct quotes. An Olive Branch is currently engaged in this process of seeking such consent, and we expect that they will complete their work soon.

Care and Conduct Policy

As a reminder, the Interim Board released an updated Care and Conduct policy on December 23, 2018. You can access that communication here.  This remains the one formal way Shambhala has to investigate reports of harm.   We recognize that as a community we need to review these policies and have involved the Process Team in this process. We will also be releasing along with An Olive Branch’s findings, their proposed Code of Ethics in the coming weeks for community review.

New Care and Conduct Appeals Process

The Interim Board has also worked on establishing procedures for a Care and Conduct appeal process. In the past, one person in an international leadership position was in charge of appeals. We have now changed the structure so that a committee of international community members will hear appeals.

Application for New Members to the International Care and Conduct Panel

We are still seeking new members to the International Care and Conduct Panel, and in particular seek to add members from outside North America. If you are inspired to be part of this critical process during an important time for our community, please review the December 23 communication with a link to the application page.

Moving Forward with Care and Conduct Issues

The Interim Board members wish to publicly state our support for survivors of harm in the Shambhala mandala. We intend to work hand in hand with the Process Team to explore how to care for those who have been harmed and how to prevent future misconduct.

There is a lot to process as practitioners and as a community, and we expect that this may take us all some time to determine our a new ground and perspective. In anticipation of how strongly this could affect the community and the wide range of reactions we will all have, we asked a small group from the Process Team to develop some guidelines and ideas for community gatherings. These were forwarded to Shambhala leaders.

Reporting and Investigating Harm in Shambhala

Both Wickwire Holm and An Olive Branch provided only anonymous reports to us. Aside from mentions of the Sakyong, the Interim Board did not receive names of reporters nor of perpetrators from either organization. When we pressed them for more information to support our responsibility to work directly with harm caused and prevent more harm, both organizations were adamant that they were bound by their promise of confidentiality to their reporters and could not divulge any names to us.  If you wish to report an issue of harm, please refer to the Care and Conduct Policy for current procedures which can be accessed here.

FINANCE

Potential Marpa House Sale

To meet growing deficits and debt encumbrance, the Interim Board is seriously considering selling Marpa House as laid out in our February 1 communication to the community. We do not take this decision lightly. We are open to alternative proposals from the community and we feel we can wait until mid-March before determining our course of action. Please continue sending us your ideas and questions to marpahouse.board@shambhala.org.

As also stated in our February 1 communication about Marpa House, the Interim Board has no intention of trying to sell local city centers or land centers as we view this as against the best interests of the community.

Center and Group Transfers

Center and group transfers dropped significantly in 2018, from approximately USD $44,000 month to USD $16,000 a month. This substantial loss in revenue has directly impacted the need to sell an asset.  It is critical for the sustainability of the mandala to increase this revenue source. To work with centers and groups on this issue, the Interim Board and Shambhala Global Services staff has been in dialogue with leaders of our 200 centers and groups and was effective in raising transfers from USD $16,000 to USD $22,000 per month.  We have paused these discussions at this time given all that the community is experiencing.

Tax Receipts

The Interim Board assisted the Shambhala Global Services Finance Department in the implementation of a new donor base software system. The system was implemented in December, and all donor tax receipts were released to US sangha members on time by the end of January. We were also on target for Canadian tax receipts to be sent out by their official due date of February 28th. If you have any questions about your tax receipt, please contact finance@shambhala.org.

Shambhala Day Fundraising

We were very happy that the Shambhala Day broadcast was well-received this year and that 81 groups and 115 individuals viewed the event.  The online connection through Zoom worked well and allowed for a seamless broadcast of cultural and practice events that switched between Halifax and Dechen Chöling.  You can click here to view the Shambhala Day broadcast through Shambhala Online.

The Shambhala New Year fundraising campaign raised a total of USD $375.000 in pledges from the global community to support Shambhala Global Services.  We very much appreciate this support. We are still waiting for some centers and groups to report in with their local fundraiser pledges. Our goal is to raise $450,000 USD worldwide with this campaign.  If you have not yet had a chance to make your Shambhala New Year donation, you can click here to do so.

Part of these fundraising efforts has been the 100 Days,100 More Jewels campaign.  We have $100,000 in matching gifts that has so far brought in 58 new Jewel Patrons pledging to give $1,000 per year. To learn more about becoming a Jewel Patron, please contact Development Director Faradee Rudy directly at faradee.rudy@shambhala.org.

COMMUNICATIONS

We continue to read all of the many emails that we receive from community members. We received hundreds after the recent letters so although we continue to read all of them, we cannot respond individually at this time.  With many community members raising important concerns, we have added many of these to our list of Frequently Asked Questions on the Interim Board website. You can access those FAQs here.

We are anticipating the following upcoming communications to the community:

• Finance Report
• Decision on next steps on the possible Marpa House sale
• An Olive Branch reports
• A webinar for leaders to be released to the whole community after the release of An Olive Branch reporting.

We are committed to working with the challenges that Shambhala is facing and will continue to communicate and share regularly with the community.  You can continue to reach us at board@shambhala.org or on our website at board.shambhala.org.

We would very much like to acknowledge all of the hard work and dedication of the employees of Shambhala USA and Shambhala Canada who continue to offer their strength and exertion during these taxing and uncertain times.

Sincerely,

The Shambhala Interim Board

Veronika Bauer
Martina Bouey
Mark Blumenfeld
John Cobb
Jennifer Crow
Sara Lewis
Susan Ryan
Paulina Varas

Dear Shambhala Community,

It is from a place of great sadness that we write you today. When we took our seats as an Interim Board, we did so with the positive aspiration of restoring Shambhala culture to one of trust, kindness, and genuine concern for the welfare of others. In the last days we have learned of patterns of behavior by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche at odds with these fundamental principles.

Six Shambhala students who have served as Kusung, a role of close personal protection and direct service to the Sakyong, have bravely come forward with An Open Letter to the Shambhala Community from Long Serving Kusung. In addition to a signed, joint statement, each has provided stories that describe Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche as an individual who has been disrespectful, unkind and has caused harm to others.

We strongly disapprove of the Sakyong’s behavior described in the Kusungs’ letter. We will do our part to protect Shambhala culture and community and we do not and will not support the behaviors described.

We feel strongly that we need to do what we can to protect the continued mission of Shambhala to connect people with their own basic goodness. We will remain focused on the issues of care and conduct in our community. The Interim Board completed the Wickwire Holm investigative project given to us by the outgoing Kalapa Council and will soon complete the project they started with An Olive Branch, pending receipt of An Olive Branch’s final report and subsequent communication with the community.

We will now turn our attention to exploring how to go forward as we work with these recent reports of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche’s behavior. We will engage with the various Shambhala leadership groups and the Shambhala Process Team to determine structures of governance that make most sense for Shambhala now and in the future.

Our hearts are with all of you in this time of difficulty. We aspire that we can rely on the truths we feel in ourselves and can find support with each other in our community. We value your continued input and rely on your support for our efforts.

Sincerely,

The Shambhala Interim Board

Veronika Bauer
Martina Bouey
Mark Blumenfeld
John Cobb
Jennifer Crow
Sara Lewis
Susan Ryan
Paulina Varas

Wickwire Holm reported to the Interim board, the Interim board released the report. Three completed Claims Investigations, two of which concern Sakyong Mipham. Available below as download.