About

Love Serve Remember Foundation

The Love Serve Remember Foundation (LSRF) is dedicated to preserving and continuing the teachings of Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass. The foundation facilitates the continuation of these teachings through online courses, blog content, films, podcasts, social network channels and collaborative projects with conscious artists and musicians.

LSRF Team

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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.

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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.

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Jackie Dobrinska

Director of Education, Community & Inclusion

Jackie Dobrinska is the Director of Education & Community for Love, Serve, Remember Foundation and host of Ram Dass' Here & Now podcast.  She is an experienced teacher, coach, community facilitator, and spiritual director with the privilege of marrying two decades of mystical studies with 15 years of expertise in holistic wellness. Ordained as an interspiritual minister in Creation Spirituality in 2016, Jackie was already a lineage holder in several spiritual traditions including Sri Vidya Tantra Yoga, the plant-medicine Peruvian Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, Christian Mysticism, and the Western European Wise Woman Tradition.  In addition, she held certifications in Yoga (500-e RYT), Ayurveda, Mindfulness Meditation, Global Mysticism, "Shamanic" Breathwork, and Western Herbalism - teaching classes and workshops at esteemed places such as Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Yoga International, Bhaktifest, and universities, hospitals, conferences, and studios around the country.  
 
Jackie met Ram Dass and Maharajii in 2005 while living in an ashram. She went on to facilitate deep learning and cooperative community structures at SE Wise Women, Jubilee! Community Church, and Warren Wilson College. Today, in addition to building courses and community for LSRF, she leads workshops and coaches individuals on everything from body image and sleep to meditation and expanded states of consciousness.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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