Anuttama Dasa began serving as leader of
BBT book distribution and later he became president of the Denver
temple—the same Colorado ashram he had visited in 1975. He relocated to
Washington, D.C. in 1993.
Anuttama Dasa has been a member of the GBC
since 2000 and his GBC assignments are all in the USA: Delaware,
Maryland, and Washington, D.C. He is co-GBC in West Virginia. His vision
for the future of ISKCON is that it will mature and grow to be a
respected and influential culture and religion around the world.
“ISKCON and the Vaishnava tradition
have great gifts to share with the world, especially in these troubled
times. I have faith that as ISKCON devotees become better qualified to
follow and represent Srila Prabhupada and Lord Caitanya, the great
culture of Bhakti that they brought to the world will have tangible and
long lasting effects.”
Besides his GBC duties, Anuttama
Dasa currently serves as ISKCON’s International Director of
Communications and is on the Board of the Bhaktivedanta College in
Belgium. A founding member of Children of Krishna, and the Grihasta
Vision Team, he is active in several interfaith initiatives in
Washington, D.C., including the Religion Communicators Council. Under
his direction, the communications office founded the annual
Vaishnava-Christian Dialogue and Vaishnava-Muslim Dialogue as well as
the North America’s Festival of Inspiration.
Anuttama Dasa is a regular contributor to
ISKCON News and has authored articles for the ISKCON Communications
Journal, and several interfaith publications. He is also active in
several religious freedom initiatives and networks with government and
NGOs in Washington to promote religious freedom around the world.
Anuttama Dasa enacts his leadership goals
by teaching the following seminars in ISKCON communities worldwide:
“ISKCON’s Leadership and Management,” Communications Course,” “Guru
Seminar,” and the new “Disciples Course,” all of which he helped
co-author with teams of senior devotees.
Anuttama Dasa and his wife, Rukmini
Devi Dasi, own a business which for many years has been a principal
source of revenue for the International Communications Ministry. They
live in Rockville, Maryland and attend the local ISKCON temple in
Potomac, Maryland.
