Catherine Ingram is an internationally known dharma teacher with communities serving several thousand students in a dozen cities in the U.S. and Europe. Since 1992 she has led Dharma Dialogues, which are public events of inquiry into the nature of awareness and the possibility of living in awakened intelligence. Catherine also leads numerous silent retreats each year in conjunction with Dharma Dialogues. She is president of Living Dharma, an educational non-profit organization dedicated to inquiry and service with offices in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, California.

In 1999, The Irish Independent listed Catherine among the "Who's Who of the New Gurus". She has been the subject of numerous print and radio interviews and is included in three anthologies about awakened teachers in the west: The Awakening West, by Lynn Marie Lumiere (Clear Visions Publications, 2000), The Teachers of One, by Paula Marvelly, and Wide-Awake in the West, by Quidam Green Meyers.

A former journalist specializing in issues of consciousness and activism, Catherine Ingram is the author of In the Footsteps of Gandhi: Conversations with Spiritual/Social Activists (Parallax Press, 1990) and Passionate Presence: Experiencing the Seven Qualities of Awakened Awareness (Penguin Putnam, 2003). Over a fifteen-year period beginning in 1982, she published approximately 100 articles and served on the editorial staffs of New Age Journal, East West Journal, (in house editor) and Yoga Journal (contributing editor).

For the past twenty-five years, Catherine has helped organize and direct institutions dedicated to awareness and service. She is a co-founder of Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts (1976), widely considered the most prestigious Buddhist meditation center in the West. She is also a co-founder of Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) in The Hague, Netherlands (1991). This organization represents dispossessed nations and groups who are not recognized by the U.N. in international forums throughout the world. For six years (1988-1994), Catherine also served as a board director for The Burma Project, dedicated to raising international awareness about the struggle for democracy in Burma.

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