Ajita Krsna Dasa
Ajita Krsna Dasa first met the devotees in 1986 while at IIT Bombay. He has been involved with the Philadelphia temple since 1999. He received initiation from Romapada Maharaja in 2011.
Current temple engagements include book distribution, preaching, outreach and organizing home programs/gatherings.
He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and has over sixteen years’ experience in the finance industry with low-latency/high-frequency equity/derivatives trading systems. At present he works as a Vice President at JPMorgan Chase in New York.
Ajita Krsna Dasa is currently the course assistant for Religious Movements course.
Amritanjali Gaurangi Devi Dasi
Amritanjali Gaurangi Devi Dasi is a disciple of Jayapataka Maharaja and received initiation in 2010. She has been involved in various ISKCON Laguna Beach temple services since 2007 including assisting with the temple finance and accounting, fundraising, pujari service
and managing festivals. Both she and her husband have also served on the Laguna temple board.
Her undergraduate degree is in Mathematics and Statistics and she has a Master’s degree in Business Administration as well as a Master’s in Financial Economics. She currently leads the Asset Management division for the West Coast region of Quest Diagnostics.
Amritanjali Gaurangi Devi Dasi is the course assistant for the Vaisnava Sadachar and Community Development courses.
Lalita Manjari Devi Dasi
Lalita Manjari Devi Dasi was born and raised in ISKCON and educated in Gurukula. And she was initiated in 1991 by Satsvarupa Maharaja. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2001 and has been working in accounting since.
She serves as the Corresponding Secretary for the GBC College.
Nandini Radha Devi Dasi
Nandini Radha Devi Dasi is an active member of the LA temple congregation and a disciple of Radhanath Maharaja. She has been practicing Krsna consciousness since 1996.
By profession she is a Professor in the Biology program at California State University, Channel Islands, and also serves as the Program Director for the Masters in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics degree program. She holds a doctorate specializing in cancer biology.
She also regularly presents Krsna consciousness to her university students including taking them to the Govardhana Ecovillage each year as well as to ISKCON Chowpatty and the Bhaktivedanta Hospital.
Nandini Radha Devi Dasi is the course assistant for the Farm Communities course.
Nija-Dham Dasa
Nija-Dham Dasa has been associated with ISKCON for over six years. He received initiation from Vaisesika Prabhu in 2015 and is currently
engaged in book distribution at ISKCON Laguna Beach (including distribution on the streets, door-to-door, at public events and placing books in hospitals and motels/hotels).
He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, (Ottawa, Canada) and currently works as a principal engineer at Broadcom Ltd.
Nija-Dham Dasa is the course assistant for the Book Distribution course.
Radheswari Padmini Devi Dasi
Radheswari Padmini Devi Dasi is a disciple of Jayapataka Maharaja and serves at the Laguna Beach temple in various capacities including as a pujari, cook and book distributor. She also supports her husband in leading the Laguna temple’s sankirtana team distributing books all over Southern California.She was initiated in 2006 and has been living in the USA since 2008.
She has a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India and currently works as a part-time Software QA
Analyst.
Radheswari Padmini Devi Dasi is the course assistant for two courses: Vaisnava Sadachar and Community Development.
Rasika Ramana Dasa
Rasika Raman Dasa is a disciple of Radhanath Swami and has been serving under Gauranga Prabhu. He is currently focusing his efforts on the degree programs that will be offered at the new seminary at Thane (Mumbai) and assists with organizing the residential courses and speakers for the GBC College.
Rasika Raman Dasa has an M.Tech in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from IIT Mumbai.
Premanjana Devi Dasi
Premanjana Devi dasi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). She works at a pioneer hospice care facility in Orange County, California.
She is assisting with the Child Protection course at the GBC College. Premanjana dd is an initiated disciple of His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami, and has been serving at ISKCON Laguna Beach since 2002.
Prior to her coming to California, she was a member of ISKCON Philadelphia congregation since 1992.
Shreeji Kumari Devi Dasi
Shreeji Kumari Devi Dasi and her husband are actively part of the ISKCON Laguna Beach temple congregation.
She currently works as a financial controller for a company in Aliso Viejo and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University.
Shreeji Kumari Devi Dasi is currently the course assistant for the Fundraising and Temple Administration courses.
Bhaktin Sarah Burney
Bhaktin Sarah Burney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).
She works as the Program Director & Therapist at the Center for Discovery–Adult Eating Disorder Residential Treatment. She is assisting with the Child Protection course at the GBC College. Bhaktin Sarah is a member of the ISKCON Long Beach and ISKCON Laguna Beach communities.