
Suelin Chen started practicing at CIMC while in graduate school in 2004. Part of her spiritual journey has been to examine our relationship with mortality, and she is now the CEO and Co-Founder of Cake (joincake.com), the leading website for funeral and end-of-life planning, which serves 40 million people a year. Prior to starting Cake, Suelin served as Director of The Lab @ Harvard University, advised healthcare companies on commercial strategy as a transaction advisor at IMS Health Capital, and earned her BS and PhD from MIT, where she engineered new medical technologies to support doctors and patients in making better treatment decisions. She also serves on the advisory board of the MIT List Visual Arts Center and loves hiking, reading, dancing, and making music and art with her two kids and husband in Somerville. She is immensely grateful to the CIMC community and the Dharma and for the opportunity to serve on the board.