Gina LaRoche (she/her) is an Insight Meditation practitioner and teacher. Gina has participated in several IMS retreats, sitting the annual People of Color retreat as well as other retreats with teachers such as Gina Sharpe, Larry Yang, Sharon Salzberg and DaRa Williams. She was a teacher at the New Haven (Connecticut) Insight Sangha now called Elm Community Insight and now serves as their board chair. In 2014, Gina was nominated by Sharon Salzberg for the Community Dharma Leaders Program at Spirit Rock where she graduated in 2017. She has completed the eight-week MBSR training. She is currently on the Board of Insight Mediation Society in Barre, MA, is one of the leaders for Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (CIMC) POC affinity group. And co-led a Dharma Talk Series for Tricycle Magazine called, “Living in Our Money-Driven Society: Navigating a Path to Awakening.”