A Rich and Varied Life
WRITING
Author, When Spirit Calls: A Healing Odyssey, Monkfish Book Publishing, Release date— September 4. 2018
HEALING AND VOLUNTEER SERVICE (1990—Present)
Facilitator, Healing Presence—Advisor for the upcoming documentary, The Psalm of Howard Thurman—Sacred Silence team, Lay Eucharistic Ministry, Sunday Night Living Bread team, Healing Prayer ministry at Trinity Church Boston—"First Lady," Reed College—Advisor, Reed College Interfaith Council—Caritas Healing Ministry, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon—Trainee and retreat leader, "God's Healing Gift"—Director of Contemplative and Healing Ministries, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia—Trustee and trained leader, Listening Hearts Ministries, Baltimore—Facilitator, Soul Matrix Clearing—Co-host, Independence Hall visit by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama
PHILANTHROPY AND PUBLIC SERVICE (1970-1989)
Executive Director, the Hyams Foundation, Boston—Chair, Associated Grantmakers of Massachusetts—Chair and co-founder, Neighborhood Development Support Collaborative—Vice-Chair, United Way of Massachusetts Bay—Board Member, Council on Foundations, Washington D.C.—Chairperson, Mutual Bank Foundation— Member, Housing Advisory Committee, United Way of America—Member, Governor's Select Committee on Judicial Needs, Massachusetts
TRAVEL EXPLORATIONS
China "2000" Project, People's Republic of China, 1984—Soviet Union with Russian language teacher, 1987—Women's Journey to Israel at invitation of Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston, 1988—Pilgrimage to Mount Sinai and the Temples of Egypt, 1989—Ashram in India, 1990 and 1991—Salzburg Seminar on Human Rights, Austria, 1998—Pilgrimage to Iona, Scotland and Sacred Sites of Ireland, 2004—Holy Land Pilgrimage, 2015
FAMILY
Married to life partner Colin Diver—Mother of two grown sons and four beautiful grandchildren
IN THE PUBLIC EYE
Subject of J. Anthony Lukas' Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, Alfred A. Knopf, 1985
STUDIES
BA in government from Wheaton College, Norton, MA—Courses in Holistic Spirituality Program, Chestnut Hill College, PA including Christian theology, Zen Buddhism, and the Gospels of Mark, John and Mary Magdalene—More than 20 weekend intensives and other courses at an ashram based in the non-duality, scriptural traditions of Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism.