Bob Roth
Chief Executive Officer

Bob Roth is one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in America. Over the past 50 years, Bob has taught Transcendental Meditation (TM) to many thousands of people and is the author of the definitive book on the subject, the New York Times bestseller “Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation" (Simon and Schuster, 2018). As the CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, Bob has helped provide TM scholarships for over one million urban youth, veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress, women and children who are survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, and healthcare workers on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic. Bob also directs the Center for Resilience, which is bringing the meditation to Fortune 100 companies, government and military organizations, and other community service organizations. Bob is the host of the iHeartRadio podcast, “Stay Calm with Bob Roth” and the SiriusXM radio show, "Success Without Stress." He has spoken about the science of meditation to industry leaders at such gatherings as Google Zeitgeist, Aspen Ideas Festival, Wisdom2.0, Summit, Global Wellness Summit, and CURA’s Unite To Cure at The Vatican.

Adam Friedman
Vice President, Programs and Research

After a fun but ultimately unfulfilling career as an advertising copywriter, Adam left the corporate world to work for a series of social service providers that help homeless individuals, formerly incarcerated men and women, domestic violence survivors, and individuals receiving welfare benefits. While he did witness some amazing transformations, he found that many well-intentioned social service interventions fail to lead to positive outcomes. He concluded that a main reason is that they do not adequately address the effects of traumatic experiences that have shaped many of their clients' lives. Adam believes that Transcendental Meditation works like a magic wand to address trauma and could be the missing link to help social service providers affect lasting change in a greater percentage of the people they serve. He is thrilled to have the opportunity to be a part of this effort.

Adam also likes to juggle knives.

Jenni Kim
Senior Vice President, Operations

Prior to joining the David Lynch Foundation, Jenni spent more than thirty years in the arts and cultural sector. Most recently, she served as Chief Operating Officer for the Park Avenue Armory, a leading performing arts presenter in New York City, and as Vice President for Finance and Administration for the American Academy in Rome, an international arts and humanities fellowship and residency program with operations and staff in the U.S. and Italy. She also led operations and administration at MoMA PS1, a contemporary art museum affiliated with the City of New York and MoMA; the Hammer Museum, which is part of UCLA; and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She holds her Bachelor of Arts in Social and Visual Psychology from Cornell University, where she was a College Scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Adam Pressman
Director of Media Production and Development

Since an early age, Adam was fascinated with the visual arts. Adam held summer jobs working for NBC News, ABC News, and Guggenheim Productions in Washington, DC, and holds a degree in Radio, TV, and Film from Northwestern University. Adam's deep interest in Transcendental Meditation led to nearly 30 years of advanced study and globe-trotting adventures teaching meditation. As a founding member of the David Lynch Foundation, Adam joined his love of visual media with his passion for “diving within.” Adam's greatest joy is in meeting and interviewing people whose lives are being transformed through the work of the Foundation, and sharing these incredibly inspiring stories with the world.

Fredda L. Plesser
Executive Vice President

Fredda is the Executive Vice President for the David Lynch Foundation. After 15 years as a practicing attorney, Fredda entered the non-profit arena to focus on bringing services and relief to underserved communities. From 2003 until 2011, Fredda was Senior Vice President, Chair and Executive Director of the Michael Tyler Fisher Center for Education of the Intrepid Museum in Manhattan. For 3 years prior to joining the Intrepid, Ms. Plesser served as the Chancellor’s Chief Executive for the Office of Corporate Partnerships at the New York City Department of Education. As an attorney, Ms. Plesser was Associate General Counsel for the Securities Industry Association and Litigation Partner for Tenzer Greenblatt LLP, currently known as Blank Rome LLP. Ms. Plesser holds a BS from Cornell University and a JD from Fordham University School of Law.

Hayley Hanna
Vice President of Programs and Partnerships

Originally from Manchester, England, Hayley and her husband, Chris, moved to New York in 2016. Hayley brings 13 years of experience as an inspirational teacher and “Head of Department.” Her career has been focused on closing the achievement gap in underserved areas and eradicating barriers to learning so that all students can access the opportunities to fulfill their greatest potential. Hayley has a track record of deep commitment in building strong and positive teams and leaving behind trails of happier students and teachers who are enthusiastic about learning. Her work led her to the honor of admission into a highly competitive principal-training program to prepare her for a leadership role in education. In her spare time, Hayley loves to read, travel, and explore the city she now calls home. She has a passion for film and will often be found watching movies from all over the world.

Joshua Pittman
Senior TM Teacher

As a native New Yorker, Joshua uses his meditation to help keep him sane. He has been practicing Transcendental Meditation since he was 16 years old and began teaching TM in 2005. Joshua has a BFA in Film & TV Production from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and worked in post-production sound before shifting careers. He was co-director of the NYC TM centers for 10 years and is proud to now teach TM to school students, veterans, and homeless individuals and seeing their transformation from experiencing damaging stress to developing profound peace. When he is not teaching, Joshua enjoys watching movies and swimming in the ocean with his wife and daughter.

Lynn Kaplan
Regional Director of DLF Los Angeles

Lynn Kaplan is Director of The David Lynch Foundation in Los Angeles. Lynn has worked as the Regional Director of the David Lynch Foundation in Los Angeles for 13 years and has built powerful community partnerships as well as community funding and support. Her responsibilities include overseeing and implementation of the Healthy Families/Healthy Communities program as well as the other initiatives through partnership programs that serve educators, mental health providers, people in recovery from substance abuse disorder, veterans suffering from PTS, the chronically homeless and survivors of domestic violence and assault. She is a certified teacher of Transcendental Meditation and has worked with the David Lynch Foundation since it was founded in 2005. As a former high school teacher, Lynn is passionate about helping youth and educators thrive. She also worked for the Mayor’s Council on Youth in St. Louis and was Director of Weaver High School’s demonstration project in Hartford, CT from 2006-2010, which produced published research on the positive impact TM has had on improving graduation rates and significantly lowering drop-out rates.

Rena Boone
Senior Certified TM Teacher, DLF Ambassador

Rena Boone is the Executive Director of The Meditation Center at THEARC which serves the community in Wards 7 and 8 in southeast D.C. She has been a teacher of Transcendental Meditation for the past 40 years as well as a classroom teacher/educator, and consultant. From 2010 through 2017 she was the Director of the TM/Quiet Time Program at Ideal Academy Public Charter School in the District.

Rena has devoted her life to transforming the field of education through the holistic development of students to achieve their full potential. As a consciousness-based educator she has been highly successful in using Transcendental Meditation (TM), an evidence-based meditation technique, to help students prepare themselves for learning, reduce stress and achieve their full potential. Since January of 2018, in addition to working with school environments, Rena has been serving in a wider role and capacity to provide knowledge and training of Transcendental Meditation to help prevent and eliminate the epidemic of toxic stress and trauma which undermines the health and well-being of individuals, families and the whole community.

Velky Marte
Vice President, Finance

Velky joined the foundation in 2014 from the world of arts and dance. Prior to joining the Foundation, Velky worked as Controller at the Africa Center in Harlem and Dance Theater Workshop in Chelsea. She has over 20 years of nonprofit experience. She has a degree in Accounting with a concentration in Business Administration from Baruch College.

Velky is extremely vibrant, personable with a tremendous client service orientation and detail oriented. With patience, candor and humor she has managed the finances of cultural organizations in NYC. During this time, she has been able to link her career aspirations with her passion for the arts, meditation and non-profits.

On her spare time, Velky is running around to her son’s basketball, baseball and/or football games. Velky loves to travel, attend concerts, cook and watch movies.

Eva Wong
Senior Accountant

Eva Wong is the Senior Accountant at the David Lynch Foundation. She is a dedicated and detail-oriented accounting professional with over 15 years of accounting experience. Eva earned her BS in Accounting/Marketing from New York University. Prior to working at the David Lynch Foundation, she worked in private and corporate accounting with responsibilities spanning financial reporting, business analysis and audit, program implementation and process improvements. In her free time, Eva enjoys traveling, crafts, scrapbooking, and spending time with her family and friends.

Becky Fleming, CPA
Associate Director of Finance

Far from the usual, Becky is an absurdly non boring accountant. Enthused by all things numbers, organized, and green, Becky enjoys baking, running, and the occasional Friends episode (a.k.a marathon). In addition to her work at DLF, she continues to maintain the books for a small non-profit, StartingBloc. Becky holds a degree in Accounting and Finance from University of Maryland, and has two pets at home, if you include her husband.

Courtney Feehrer
Administrative and Office Coordinator

Originally from Florida, Courtney fulfilled her lifelong dream of moving to New York City in 2023. She spent most of her career working in state government and a few years with the Peace Corps in Ecuador. She is a dedicated and detail-oriented professional with a proven track record in administrative support and office management. Courtney is passionate about streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency, with a particular affinity for creating clear and concise standard operating procedures. Prior to moving to NYC, she dedicated three and a half years to fostering seven teenage girls, ranging in age from 13 to 17. In her free time, you'll likely find her strolling through Carl Schurz Park with her dog, attending live performances, exploring new restaurants, or indulging in her favorite reality TV shows.

Casey Williams
Associate Director of Marketing

Casey joined the Foundation in 2018 from the world of sports social media, having worked at the NBA and MLB. He earned a BA in journalism and media production from Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire.

After moving to New York in 2014 and discovering Dan Harris' book 10% Happier, Casey found a belief in the universal benefits of meditation. Prior to joining DLF, Casey pursued his certification as a meditation teacher, and sought modern ways to share the practice with all people. He feels very fortunate to align that mission with the David Lynch Foundation.

Chris Busch
Regional Director of Development and Expansion

Chris is a founding member of the David Lynch Foundation, present from its creation in July 2005. A 40-year practitioner and teacher of the Transcendental Meditation program, Chris works with his wife Julia to expand outreach and development opportunities for the Foundation in Chicago.

Julia Busch
Regional Director of Development and Expansion

Julia graduated from Regis College with a degree in Biology and her passion is to help people in the field of health and wellness. She learned the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique in college, soon realized that TM is one of the most powerful tools to help pursue her passion and decided to become a TM teacher. Julia has been teaching TM for almost 40 years and through her work with the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, she connected with business, government and policy makers to bring the prevention-based solutions of the TM Program to society. Julia is one of the founders of the David Lynch Foundation and is now focusing on Development and Expansion in Chicago and California.

Kelly Malloy
Senior TM Teacher

Kelly was born and raised in the small town of Fairfield, Iowa, where she learned the TM technique at the age of 10. From an early age, Kelly wanted to become a TM teacher in order to instruct young people how to meditate and help them manage their stressful lives. So after receiving her BFA in Interior Design at the American Intercontinental University in Los Angeles, she later became certified as a TM teacher in 2015 and moved to New York City to join the David Lynch Foundation where she has served for five years as the Site Leader for the DLF's “Quiet Time” program in New York area schools. Kelly says she loves being a mentor and providing a positive role model for children and teens while teaching them a technique they can use for the rest of their lives. She is also teaching TM to doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers who are the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic as part of the DLF’s Heal the Healers Now initiative. When she is not teaching, Kelly enjoys cooking, DJ’ing and dancing to house music and spending quality time with family and friends.

Lindsey Ganey
Program Manager, Meditate America

As the Heal the Healers Now Program Coordinator, Lindsey manages daily logistics and programming for all of DLF's national hospital sites. She supports the development and implementation of programs, as well as the continuous research of new opportunities for growth within the HTHN initiative.

Prior to joining the DLF team, Lindsey worked as the Academic Accommodations Coordinator at Northeastern University’s Disability Resource Center and was tasked with supporting students with disabilities, as well as managing the testing center and all office operations. Lindsey has also served with AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps as a Corps Member and Wellness Representative. In this role, Lindsey traveled throughout the southeastern United States aiding families impacted by natural disasters. During this time, she learned the profound power of meditation and led her team in guided meditations weekly. In her free time, Lindsey loves to spend the day at the beach and hang out with her cat, Dewey.

Peter Lamoureux
Lead TM Teacher

Peter Lamoureux is the lead TM instructor at David Lynch Foundation. Peter has taught TM to thousands of people over 40 years. Mr.Lamoureux has been working with David Lynch Foundation teaching veterans with PTS and is the Director of Programs for Operation Warrior Wellness. Peter is a non combat veteran of the US Army and US Army Reserves, MOS 71Q20 Information Specialist (journalist / photographer).

In addition, Mr. Lamoureux is the President and principal owner of Everest Asset Management, Inc. Everest sponsors the Everest Fund, L.P., an investment fund that has been in continuous operation 30 years. He has both securities and commodities licenses.

Mr. Lamoureux has a BS in Education and formerly held a certificate to teach in secondary education.

Peter has daughters in Brooklyn, Austin and Boulder, and is an avid motorcyclist when not teaching TM to veterans.

Sean Slifer
Senior Manager, Program Evaluation

As Senior Manager of Program Evaluation, Sean helps to plan and implement the measurement of outcomes for all DLF programs across the country. After growing up in Brooklyn, he earned a degree in Biology from the University of Rochester. Prior to joining DLF, Sean spent most of his career at the National Kidney Foundation, working with doctors and researchers to develop clinical practice guidelines that provided evidence-based recommendations for a variety of kidney related diseases.

Vin DeCrescenzo
Vice President, Marketing & Communications

In 2016 Vin showed up at DLF offering to build a new website and has just kept showing up everyday since. He joined DLF after a long career in film, television and digital marketing. He began his career at Good Morning America working for film critic Joel Seigel. He later went on to write and direct several short films and documentaries of his own. He spent many years as a digital marketing consultant helping organizations to grow online. Vin has applied that wealth of experience to dramatically expand DLF’s programs, communications and partnerships with first responder and veteran serving organizations throughout the U.S. Those efforts have helped to bring TM to thousands of worthy veterans. He was instrumental in launching the largest research study ever conducted on meditation and PTSD. Learning TM and working at a non-profit for the first time were both transformative experiences in his life. Vin is a father of two and a lifelong New Yorker. He is a graduate of Colgate University.

Peter Trivelas
TM Teacher

Peter graduated from The Albany Academy military academy and served in the US Navy in Vietnam on the USS Intrepid as a Photographic Intelligence Petty Officer. After earning a BFA degree in filmmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute, Peter worked for 30+ years in the television industry, editing and producing for all the major television networks and a variety of production companies such as Martha Stewart Living Television and The Discovery Channel.

In 1974, Peter completed his Transcendental Meditation teacher training in Vittel, France and has taught in TM Centers and for many DLF projects since. Currently, Peter is proud to bring healing and meditation to veterans and at-risk students as a TM teacher at DLF Los Angeles.

Raisa Martinez
Director, The Meditation Center @ THEARC

Since the summer of 2014 Raisa has worked with the David Lynch Foundation in New York City before joining the Washington DC team in September 2020. After becoming a certified teacher in Transcendental Meditation in 2017. Raisa has enjoyed teaching within different teams at DLF including: the Center for Health and Wellness, Manhattan Family Justice Center, and the Bronx VA. Since joining the Washington DC team, she has taught on various special projects associated with The Meditation Center @ THEARC, Walter Reed Medical Center, DCVA, and the DuPont Circle TM office.

Adora Iris Lee, MPH, M.Div.
Senior Program Advisor

As Senior Program Advisor, Adora Iris Lee is responsible for program planning, evaluation and monitoring, as well as developing strategic partnerships with key community organizations and D.C. agencies that serve Ward 7 and 8 residents. She is a Yale trained public health professional with over 30 years of experience designing and implementing community-based health promotion and disease prevention projects in Washington D.C., Southern Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Ms. Lee is also a Ward 8 resident and serves as an Ambassador with the D.C. Office on Aging and Community Living and the Phillips Collection @THEARC. She is an active volunteer with WC Smith’s Building Bridges to a Better Life homelessness prevention initiative and a member of the United Planning Organization’s Health Community Advisory Board.