Dianne Perlmutter discovered CIMC and Vipassana practice in 1995 and has been practicing at the Center ever since. She has been a long-standing member of the Experienced Practitioner’s Group (remembering fondly when it was called ‘Old Yogis’), has started each morning as part of the Daily Dharma sangha since its start almost 4 years ago; and has participated in many Women’s Retreats at IMS.
Currently retired, she has degrees in both social work and public health. During the first half of her career, Dianne’s focus was developing and implementing services for older adults and their families. Subsequently, she went back to graduate school for a degree in public health, spending the second half of her career becoming involved in addressing the AIDS epidemic, as a staff member of the AIDS Action Committee, the AIDS Bureau of the Dept. of Public Health, Cambridge Hospital and then as a senior consultant at John Snow, Inc. (JSI). During her career, Dianne has served on a variety of boards of non-profit organizations, and is currently a board member of the Boston Workers Circle, a progressive, secular Jewish organization committed to celebrating the diversity of Jewish culture and social justice activism. She looks forward to bringing her organizational and board experience to helping ensure the vitality and sustainability of CIMC, making the incredible fruits of Dharma practice available as wildly as possible for many years to come.