Meet Our Team

FOUNDER

PRESIDENT & SECRETARY, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Basil is a co-founder of Reflection Park. He was motivated to help start Reflection Park after going through an unpleasant experience with his father's burial. He is also deeply drawn toward personal growth and transformation. Basil's professional training is in internal medicine, clinical pharmacology, and neuroscience, and he currently works in biomedical research administration. Basil loves spending quality time with his wife and four children, and enjoys running, playing piano, and more recently, pickleball.

FOUNDER

TREASURER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Haroon is a co-founder of Reflection Park. He was drawn to this effort after learning how unaffordable burials had become and how a large part of that cost is driven by unnecessary burial practices. Haroon is a serial entrepreneur who has created and scaled multiple successful technology startups. He fundamentally enjoys searching for elegant and sustainable solutions across a range of human problems. He envisions Reflection Park as a pioneer for a new model of burial ground whose service to its community can be an example to cemeteries nationwide.

FOUNDER

MEMBER, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Nzinga, a co-founder of Reflection Park, brings with her a unique blend of expertise and experience. With a background in both religious studies and nursing, she holds a Master of Science degree in Nursing Education and has over eighteen years of experience as a registered nurse and clinical educator, predominantly serving in Community Health Nursing. Nzinga's passion lies in promoting the holistic wellness of individuals, bridging the realms of spirituality and physical health. As an interfaith consultant, certified Hospice and Palliative care nurse, and end-of-life doula, she is dedicated to providing compassionate care and guidance to those navigating life's most profound transitions.

OPERATIONS

Meredith has worked with and for many nonprofits in the region and currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Montgomery County Collaboration Council for Children, Youth, and Families. She was called to Reflection Park due to a personal passion and desire to lend her nonprofit skills to support Montgomery County's first natural burial cemetery. Meredith loves learning new things and is a trained lawyer, postpartum doula, children's yoga instructor, and hospice volunteer. Her greatest passion is the time she spends with her family including her husband and four daughters, preferably by water when it's warm and by fire in the winter.

PROJECT MANAGER

Mona serves as the Project Manager of land development, coordinating a team of architects, engineers, contractors and other consultants to bring our vision to reality. Her professional training is in Architecture with an interest in Sustainable Design. Her work is fueled by her passion for environmental stewardship and reverence for the land as part of her faith practice. She looks forward to the community that will form at Reflection Park to enjoy the land and tend it with care. Mona loves to play soccer and pickleball with her husband, Basil, and cherishes time with their four children.

OPERATIONS

Nicole Sroka serves as a part-time Operations Manager for Reflection Park, with a background in organizational change, operations management, communications, and outreach. Nicole is dedicated to creating a cultural shift towards holistic and regenerative burial practices that benefit both people and the planet. She is a creative mobilizer who brings a diverse perspective as a Registered Yoga Teacher, environmentalist, and government consultant in medicine and health. Nicole enjoys outdoor activity, time in nature, meditation, and healthy life transformation.

COMMUNITY, EDUCATION, OUTREACH

Pleasance comes to Reflection Park with a long career of community projects and a passion for holistic end-of-life services and community death care. She is an ordained Jewish clergy, death doula, grief educator, Ayurvedic counselor, yoga instructor, meditation guide, retreat leader, and hospice volunteer. She enjoys gathering people for all sorts of transformational events including; Death Cafes, grief rituals, and healing retreats. As a lifelong educator and student, she loves taking classes, reading memoirs, playing with her dog, or taking long walks in the woods with her family.