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SEMINARY FACULTY
Rev. Robin Brinkmann
Rev. Robin Brinkmann
Rev. Robin Brinkmann
Rev. Robin Brinkmann, Mdiv., MS, BCC is the Director of the Chaplaincy program and an ordained Vaishnava Minister. She is also the Director of St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care: Urban Interfaith Chaplaincy program (urbanchaplaincy.org) and the Director/Founder of Karuna Care Education (karuncare.iskcon.org). Robin is the first Vaishn
Rev. Robin Brinkmann, Mdiv., MS, BCC is the Director of the Chaplaincy program and an ordained Vaishnava Minister. She is also the Director of St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care: Urban Interfaith Chaplaincy program (urbanchaplaincy.org) and the Director/Founder of Karuna Care Education (karuncare.iskcon.org). Robin is the first Vaishnava to be Certified as a Chaplain Educator (acpe.edu) which is the Phd equivalent of Chaplaincy. She was also the first Vaishnava to be certified by the gold-star Association of Professional Chaplains (professionalchaplains.org). Robin served as adjunct faculty of the Patient Counseling department at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she provided Clinical Pastoral Education. Robin has provided Pastoral Care Education for diverse contexts such as the Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center, Mary Washington Hospital, prisons, hospices, military, gang rehab centers, college campuses, and religious congregations, e.g., Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu, etc. Robin is the creator and coordinator of H.E.A.R.T.S, a collaborative initiative focused on Holistic Emotional Awareness Relational Training & Support, is a certified Grief Recovery Specialist (griefrecoverymethod.com) and a certified Grief Support Group Facilitator (ourhouse-grief.com). Robin is an international speaker on topics such as Bhakti Yoga, Grief and Bereavement, Death and Dying, Self and Other Empowerment, Community Building, and, Compassionate Listening and presence as the cure for all personal and social ills.
Ms. Sugopi Palakala
Rev. Robin Brinkmann
Rev. Robin Brinkmann
Sugopi Palakala is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Religion at the Yale Divinity School, specializing in Asian Religions. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in History at Boise State University. Being familiar with Sanskrit and its use in lived Hindu contexts since early childhood, Sugopi developed a love for the language
Sugopi Palakala is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Religion at the Yale Divinity School, specializing in Asian Religions. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in History at Boise State University. Being familiar with Sanskrit and its use in lived Hindu contexts since early childhood, Sugopi developed a love for the language that she carried into her academic study. Throughout her educational sojourn at Yale, she has taken classes on various Sanskrit poetic and philosophical works such as Kalidasa's Kumara-Sambhava, Vedanta Deshika's Sankalpa-suryodaya, and Shankara's Bhagavad-gita-bhashya. She looks forward to deepening her engagement with Sanskrit by teaching the language at the Seminary.