Tara Brach

Brach was born in East Orange, New Jersey, to parents Nancy, an advertising professional, and Bill, a civil rights attorney. She was raised Christian Unitarian and is the oldest of four siblings. She attended Clark University, earning bachelor's degrees in psychology and political science. Brach became a Buddhist lay priest in 1988. She taught meditation classes In 1998, she founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. In 2010, she launched her eponymous podcast, which by 2021 was being downloaded by 2.5 million people each month. Her own meditation teachers included Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield. Brach resides in Great Falls, Virginia, with her husband, Jonathan Foust, a yoga and meditation teacher and former president of the Kripalu Center. ==Bibliography==