Veronica Boutte came to Washington, DC in 1967 and served for twenty years in the Diplomatic Service in Latin America, Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. She holds a Doctoral degree in Religious Studies and is the author of a book, The Phenomenology of Compassion, the result of an extensive study of the Indian thinker, J. Krishnamurti (1895-1986). Veronica taught undergraduate courses in World Religions, Art History, Ethics and Humanities at several universities in the Washington, DC area.