Rande Brown (1949–2025) was a founding board member of the Tricycle Foundation and served as its Executive Director from 2002 to 2006. A Princeton graduate in East Asian studies, she spent a decade in Japan studying Zen Buddhism and conducting research at the Institute of Religion and Psychology before building a career as a translator and, later, as a psychoanalyst in private practice. She wrote on the intersections of Buddhist practice and psychoanalysis and served on the board of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society. Her final book, Live, Die, Repeat: One Woman's Wild Ride on the Cycle of Life and Death, a reflection on reincarnation, karma, and consciousness, published posthumously in 2026.