Alexandre Chami Filho, warmly referred to as "Shami" by his peers at SINI, is a Master of Theological Studies focusing on Buddhist Studies from Harvard University. Before Harvard, Shami studied and served as a teaching assistant at Rangjung Yeshe University in Nepal,...
Sophia is an educator with experience in teacher training, cultural adaptation in curriculum design, and program development across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. After earning her degree in the United States, she began teaching English abroad and developed a...
Tanner McAlister received a B.A. in Religious Studies, a B.A. in Economics (2019) at Utah State University, and a MTS in Buddhist Studies at the Harvard Divinity School (2021). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Buddhist Studies at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on...
Patrick Dowd graduated with his PhD in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia in May 2024. His dissertation centered on the relationship between the Tibetan language and Buddhist transmission, a topic he has explored for more than a decade while living...
Eden Merritt completed a BA in Linguistics and Translation in 2013 before going on to teach English in several countries, including India, Nepal, and Japan. She joined SINI in January 2018 as one of the English teachers. In 2019, she completed her DELTA with a...
Jaime Luria Pinto was born in Liverpool, UK, in a Christian family of mixed British and Indian ancestry. While studying theological and religious studies at the University of Cambridge, Jaime took refuge at Kagyu Samye Ling in Scotland and participated in and...
Osha Johnson is from the Pacific Northwest of the USA. After several years teaching English to Slovak teenagers, he was happy to join the SINI community. Currently, he serves as the Assistant Director of the EDP program, where he also teaches English for Dharma...