Baruti KMT-Sisouvong

A Little Bit About Us

Baruti KMT-Sisouvong (pronounced buh-ROO-tee KE-met-SEE-soo-VAWNG), along with his wife, Mina, serves as Director of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Cambridge and the larger metropolitan area of Boston, MA.

Additionally, Baruti is the Founder of Radical Scholar, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational corporation. The idea for Radical Scholar was conceived and later launched in 2006 when Baruti recognized the need for a single entity that would bring diverse thinkers and threads of information together in one place to facilitate asking critical questions and creating positive personal and social change. In addition to serving as the visionary behind Radical Scholar, Inc., he also doubles as researcher, producer, and Host of Connecting the Dots, ConnectingtheDots.org, a podcast “exploring the surprising connections between spirituality, science, and world affairs.”

After a few years in the corporate environment, including stints with CIGNA and Mass Mutual, Baruti matriculated to Georgia State University, where he received B.A. degrees in both History (1998) and Sociology (2002) and later pursued graduate study in both Sociology and Education (2003-2005). While at GSU, Baruti served as President of the Black Student Alliance (1995-1997) as well as an op-ed columnist for the Signal newspaper and publicity chairman for Circle K International, the college division of KIWANIS.

While attending GSU, Baruti maintained on-campus employment in a number of areas, including the Office of Assistant Dean of Students, University Housing, Information Systems and Technology, the College of Law Library Computer Lab, and ultimately served as a Systems Administrator within the College of Arts and Sciences for four years. In this last capacity, he served as sole IT consultant on two successfully procured technology grants for the Department of Modern & Classical Languages: $128,537.00 (FY02), $72,950.00 (FY03). Thereafter, Baruti successfully initiated and procured a small yet important $14,060 grant (FY05) for the Department of Sociology to support a student computer lab upgrade.

In 2005, Baruti, after leaving GSU and the graduate program, accepted a position as Director of Information Technology with AID Atlanta, the premiere non-profit AIDS service organization in the southeastern United States. In this capacity, he served as one of five directors of the agency, while overseeing IT functions and public presentation of the overall mission to serve Atlanta’s community members affected by and infected with HIV/AIDS. In 2006, Baruti left AID Atlanta to devote his energies to Radical Scholar, Inc.

In 2008, Baruti accepted a rare opportunity to pick-up where he left off with Graduate School and pursued the study of Vedic Science. Having matriculated to the graduate program at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa he completed the M.A. in spring of 2009 and is presently completing his doctoral dissertation on mystical experiences among early and modern Freemasons and Rosicrucians. As Baruti continues his research, it is his sincere hope that many will develop a new appreciation for the early ideas, idea-generators, and their associated mystical experiences as valid points of examination and action for one's continued evolution.

An avid bibliophile and independent researcher, Baruti maintains an extensive and ever-growing library of metaphysical texts. In addition to reading, writing, and research - both traditional and otherwise - he enjoys Philosophy, doing yoga asanas, reading Vedic literature in Sanskrit, preparing plant-based meals, travel, teaching Transcendental Meditation and facilitating Advanced Lectures with his wife, Mina, and their two children--Chloë Rose and Emerson James Warren.