Malati Dasi

Malati Dasi is a senior spiritual leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness . Born in Vallejo, California, she was part of the hippie movement before becoming an initiated disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1967. In the same year she and her husband Shyamasundar Das helped Mukunda Das organize the MantraRock Dance, a countercultural musical event held at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco the dance was a fundraiser for ISKCONs first center on the west coast of the US.

Melanie Lee Nagel was born on August 30, 1945, in Vallejo, California. After graduating in 1963 from El Camino Fundamental High School in Sacramento, California, Nagel attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She dropped out before graduating and joined the hippie movement. After her boyfriend Sam Speerstra got a position with the US Forest Service, she lived with him in a remote lookout tower near Bend, Oregon, where their job was to spot forest fires and report them to the National Park Service.

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