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Beth Kanji Goldring: Beth, an American Zen nun in the Japanese Rinzei tradition, founded Brahmavihara/Cambodia AIDS Project in 2000. She is a former ballet dancer, university humanities teacher and human rights worker. She was ordained in 1995. Currently she studies vipassana with Gil Fronsdal. Beth also was one of 20 women named Oustanding Women in Buddhism 2008 (please see News section of home page).

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Lok Yay Coy Srein: Lok Yay (the title is an honorific meaning reverend grandmother) began working with Ramo and Beth towards the end of 2000. Specializing in chanting for the dying she embodies simultaneously everyone's idealized grandmother and the Buddha. She is also responsible for leading chanting and ritual within the organization.

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Yiv Ramo: Ramo, who graduated in psychology from Phnom Penh University in 2006, began in 2000 as Beth's translator and is still responsible for complex translation within the project. He has shown great gifts for Reiki, working with deep concentration and tenderness. He is also knowledgeable about Khmer chanting and ritual.

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Keo Sopheap: Pheap, the project's director, has been working with the project since 2001. His leadership developed through consensus: all of us spontaneously look to him for sensible and deeply compassionate decisionmaking. He is also the best of us at distinguishing truth from fiction in the stories we are told by patients.

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Saum Bun Heng: Heng has worked with Brahmavihara since 2004, although we knew her from 2001, when her husband was dying. She then worked as a Maryknoll caregiver. She has a great capacity for joyousness and for eliciting joyousness even under terrible circumstances.

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Heng Soeun: Soeun, along with Sok Ny (below), became part of our staff in 2006 through the kindness of Helen Hann, who taught all of us Healing Touch and continues to support these two people. Formerly a Maryknoll caregiver Soeun, like Ramo, has great capacities for Reiki and powerful compassionate response.  Like Pheap, she is also gifted at telling fact from fiction.

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Ye Sok Ny: Sok Ny, whom we have known since 2003, became a staff member along with Souen in 2006, thanks partly to Helen Hann's kindness. Without prior experience in caregiving she has progressed enormously because of her completely wholehearted and generous effort. She is a model for Right Effort within the project (Sok Ny's portrait photo is by Beth).