About Us

Kritee (dharma name Kanko) is a founding spiritual teacher and executive director of ‘Boundless in Motion’. She is a climate scientist, Buddhist Zen priest, meditation and grief-rage ceremony leader, an ordained teacher in the Rinzai Zen lineage of Cold Mountain, and a co-founder and former co-chair of the ‘Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center’. She has served as faculty for workshops and retreats at the intersection of climate crisis, racial justice, trauma healing, and spirituality for many organizations, including One Earth Sangha, Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, Stanford University, the World Council of Churches, San Francisco Zen Center, the Mind & Life Institute, and the Lama Foundation. Kritee also served as a leading scientist in the Climate Smart Agriculture program at the Environmental Defense Fund for 12 years. Her experience has shown her that identifying and releasing our personal and ecological grief in the presence of a loving community is essential; that helps us unlock our gifts and reindigenize our communities in this era of polycrisis. Her articles and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, BBC, Washington Post, Harvard Health, Yale Climate Connections, California Public Radio. Please see her personal website or CV for more details.

Mikyö Black-Wangmo works as grief ritualist, Tibetan Buddhist meditation instructor, facilitator, educator, death doula, and somatic practitioner. They founded Subrosa Santo, a healing arts business focused on being with grief and death. They are a student of the Elements and Natural world, of Grief, Death and Great Mother Unknown, and of their esoteric Teachers and Lineages. They have over 20 years of dharma study and practice in Vajrayana Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhism, as well as training in Daoism and internal arts. They are currently deepening with the GEM lineage, a modern rime school of Esoteric Work. They are a chod practioner, and source much of their experience with the power of grief through this esoteric shamanic Tibetan practice. Their positionality as a queer, 2 spirit, Indigenous POC, transracial adoptee allows them a unique perspective and depth of empathy for the ways in which we all face hardship and de-humanization in our culture. They co-lead our people of color retreats

Bianca Acosta is Queer Mestizo-Indigenous Womanx from Zacatecas (Mexico) and has been living in Colorado for over 17 years. She is a practitioner of Curanderismo, the ancestral and traditional healing practices of the Americas, as well as Mexikah ritual healing dance. Certified in somatic Qigong, traditional ecological design, and permaculture farming practices, she integrates these teachings into her work. She is dedicated to co-creating a more beautiful world by integrating ancestral knowledge, Earth-centered wisdom practices, and principles of social and environmental justice. She envisions a world where people and the Earth coexist in harmonious symbiosis. She envisions and leads healing retreats and ceremonies for Boundless in Motion including retreats for Indigenous women and for people of color.

 

Our Board members

Dale Gaar (dharma name Kanryu) spent his childhood in Iowa and was in New York for law school. Because of his own background, he focussed his law practice on representing individuals dealing with the trauma of physical injuries. He also dealt with civil rights violations involving inability to access governmental services and employment as well as race-based discrimination, gender-based discrimination, and free speech rights. Dale has served for many years on the board of the Center for People with Disabilities (CPWD) in Boulder, a nonprofit independent living center that provides a broad range of services to support people with disabilities to live independently. He and his wife Rayma raised two sons who are now adults and both practice meditation with Boundless in Motion sangha. Dale is a founding board member and advises us on legal and financial issues. He is happy to be an ally in this BIPOC women led organization.

Curtis Rogers is the founder and CEO of Lift for Palestine, a grassroots, volunteer-powered moving service that donates its proceeds to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). An Indianapolis native, Curtis has lived and studied in Boulder, Colorado, since 2024, where he is pursuing his studies in psychology. Curtis is also a cofounder and board member of Obsidian Performing Arts Collective and a playwright, director, and producer whose theatrical work explores cultural history, revolution, and the stories of communities too often pushed to the margins. Curtis’s work lives at the intersection of recovery, spiritual growth, art, service, and social justice. His own journey has shaped a deep belief that some of our most difficult experiences can become pathways toward greater compassion, connection, and meaningful change.  Curtis practices meditation and is exploring the ways communal practices of grieving can create space for healing, connection, and transformation.

Brenda Balmer is a lay member of the Order of Interbeing in the Plum Village tradition of Engaged Buddhism. She is co-founder of Backyard Dharma Buddhist Practice Center which includes small, intimate retreats at Dandelion Acres Retreat Center in rural, remote Northern Minnesota. Prior to her retreat center adventures, she co-founded and operated Nonprofit Prosperity Consulting for fifteen years, bringing millions of dollars in funding to Southern California nonprofits through grant development.Brenda is currently retired from Nonprofit Prosperity Consulting and lives with her partner and puppy on twenty beautiful acres of wooded and grassy land in Northern Minnesota on the land of the Ojibwe people and the Dakota people. She couldn’t be happier to support the breathtaking and groundbreaking work being done by Boundless in Motion to support climate justice and address the rest of the polycrisis.

Hillary Frances is the Founder and CEO of Flying Whale Strategies, a boutique consulting firm working to launch a new wave of nonprofit leaders who design definitive solutions to age-old problems. She has supported over 125 national organizations and nearly 300 leaders. She has worked for state government through the Colorado Refugee Services Program, and higher education as a Dean at Emily Griffith Technical College where she was responsible for employment-focused education programs for over 2000 refugee and immigrant students per year.  She teaches as an Affiliate Faculty member at Metro State University. These roles have built her reputation as a lean program designer and program evaluator. Hillary holds a Master’s degree in International and Intercultural Communication from the University of Denver. She is a grateful member of the sangha and joined our board in August 2024.

Imtiaz Rangwala is a lay meditation teacher in the lineage of Cold Mountain Zen and has been practicing meditation for about 20 years. He is a co-founder of Boundless in Motion and a founding board member. Professionally, he is a Climate Scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder where he provides climate science support to people managing our land, water and wildlife (see this page for details). He serves as chef for all our retreats and loves to nurture community through gardening and sharing of songs and stories. He also considers nature to be a very important teacher.

 

Our Funders

The Hemera Foundation (Link)
BESS Family Foundation (Link)
Community Foundation Boulder County/Russ Hullet (Link)
The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism (Link)

Disclaimer: Boundless in Motion (BIM) is a nonprofit organization with a 501(c)3 status in the United States. BIM doesn’t endorse any actions/approach of professional organizations that individuals are employed by or associated with. Similarly, none of the organizations that employ us endorse actions/approach of Boundless in Motion with respect to social justice, ecological crisis and climate breakdown.