Co-Founder and Executive Director

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

Family Services & Operations Manager

In her role, Susan guides families through meaningful end-of-life choices.  With a background in Human Development and Family Studies from Colorado State University, service in the U.S. Peace Corps in Benin, and training with the International End-of-Life Doula Association (INELDA), she brings both compassion and structure to her work.  Outside of her work, she finds joy spending time with her husband, John, and planning their next ski or scuba diving adventure.

Assistant Operations Manager & Groundskeeper

Ali holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Towson University and a master’s degree in environmental philosophy from the University of Montana. In addition to her role at Reflection Park, she is currently enrolled in CCBC’s Mortuary Science program. Ali is passionate about death education, and strives to normalize conversations around our shared mortality. Outside of Ali’s death-centered ventures, she enjoys tending to her many houseplants, laughing with strangers, and spending time considering what it means to be a human animal.

Conservation Biology

Natalie has 25 years of experience working for non-profits and the federal government to support international biodiversity conservation. She recently founded Good Nature Strategies, LLC to support mission-driven organizations that care for people and nature. She holds an M.S. in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology from University of Maryland. Natalie is an Elder in her church, a Scouting America volunteer, and is training as a Maryland Master Naturalist. She enjoys running, camping, reading, and spending time with friends and family.

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 children.

Genevieve is Founder of Theory Y, a consultancy that helps startup teams reach their full potential. She has studied end-of-life planning with the Conscious Dying Collective and human energy consciousness with the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. Drawing on 20+ years as a right-brained Right Hand to founders, she acts as a “startup sherpa,” setting standards and pace, and helping teams reach their goals without leaving anyone behind. Her two children, family, and friends bring her daily joy and inspiration.

Madison is a designer, teacher, and writer with a background in landscape architecture and environmental education. She's fascinated by memorial landscapes and has a passion for conservation. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from The Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture, where she was recognized with a Research Distinction for her thesis project on green burial landscapes. Madison's contributions to Reflection Park include site design, signage, and operational planning. She lives in Baltimore, where she spends her free time rollerblading and spending time with her two cats.

Scott has been an interfaith chaplain since 2020. Prior to that time, he enjoyed nearly 40 years as a proverbial “jack of all vocational trades,” acting as a religious educator, lawyer, actor, radio disc jockey, youth minister, spiritual director, congregational care minister, film critic, writer, chorister, celebrant and father (his favorite role). His interest in natural burial came from a confluence of three sources: discovering a natural burial cemetery in a favorite vacation spot in New Hampshire; his time involved with hospice care; and hearing a heartfelt story in 2022 from Reflection Park’s Executive Director. Scott and his family reside in Potomac.

Nicole Sroka has a professional 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.

President

Haroon was drawn to Reflection Park’s mission 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.

Secretary

Meredith has worked with and for many nonprofits in the region, most recently the Montgomery County Collaboration Council. She was called to Reflection Park by personal passion and desire to lend her nonprofit experience 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, preferably by water when it's warm and by fire in the winter.

Board Member

Chandra serves as Chief of Staff and Health Scientist Administrator at the National Institute on Aging, where one of her roles is to help coordinate palliative care research initiatives across the National Institutes of Health. She is called to serve Reflection Park as part of her journey of spirituality, meditation, and an ongoing personal reckoning with the culture of death denial. Chandra enjoys spending time with her husband and two sons, reading, biking, practicing yoga, and listening to live music.