Christine DuSell has been a member of ZLMC since 2010 and started her regular meditation practice shortly thereafter. She has served on the Center's Board of Directors and has participated in the sangha community as a daily meditation timekeeper , study circle steward, women’s circle steward, ethics circle steward, and Sunday Morning Zen speaker. She is certified by ZLMC as a “Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher”.

Her undergraduate degree is in Social Welfare from Aurora University and she has a Master's in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She  worked in the human resources profession for 25 years.