Officers & Staff
Siri Sikdar Sahiba - Sardarni Guru Amrit Kaur Khalsa, MA
Sardarni Guru Amrit Kaur Khalsa holds the office of the Siri Sikdar Sahiba, the Chief Spiritual Minister of Sikh Dharma.
Sardarni Guru Amrit Kaur Khalsa started her career in 1974 developing and building the legacy non profits established by the Siri Singh Sahib including 3HO Foundation, Kundalini Research Institute, Sikh Dharma Education International, and Sikh Dharma International. She worked internationally in community development and established with the Siri Singh Sahib the Khalsa model of education for Miri Piri Academy in India. She also supporting the formulation of 3HO events & programs, including Solstices, Khalsa Women’s Training Camp, Khalsa Youth Camp and she helped to standardize the framework for the early stages of the Kundalini Research Institute’s Teachers Training Program by engaging the International body of teachers. She co-founded Amar Infinity to provide endowments and grants to support all the Siri Singh Sahib’s inspired legacy non profits in order to bring prosperity for the future of this mission.
Until 2007 she served on all the Non Profit Legacy Board of Directors. From 1985, for 20 years, she served as Secretary General of Sikh Dharma International and served the leadership body of ministers by developing the agendas for the International & European Khalsa Council meetings. During that time she traveled around the globe in service to the Sadh Sangat helping communities and individuals through transitions, growth challenges & governance issues as well as facilitating White Tantric Yoga courses. In 2004, at the Siri Singh Sahib’s passing he bestowed upon her the privilege to serve the sangat as a spiritual guide to bring all to the feet of the Guru. An ordained minister of the Sikh faith since 1977, she holds a Bachelor's Degree in Comparative Religions.
The Siri Singh Sahib has said about her:
“When you want a logical and rational spiritual counseling, Guru Amrit is the best. She has a very different kind of vitality and projection as a human being. But if you are in a terrible difficulty she is very kind and compassionate. She can do in three minutes what nobody can do in thirty days. In three minutes she will give herself to you and she can enter your soul to uplift it to the height you can experience. There is no magic about it.”
“I have never seen a human being with such a perpetual grit that she stood with me through every odd and even like a rock. She has an extremely dependable character and she has a God given gift which I don't think can be valued in any way. She is absolutely a living rational and logical person and extremely analytical and extremely soothing. Her style is her own. Her life is her own, herself is her own. She is a very rare human being. I not only respect her. I have great reverence for her. She is a very unique person. Her language is her own and it is very joyful and I am very happy and extremely feel very helped that I have all these years of association with her and she is a comrade in hand, friend in the waiting. She is a great healer. She is a real missionary.” Lecture: Los Angeles, California 3/20/1991.
SiriSikdarSahiba@sikhdharmaworldwide.org
Bhai Sahiba - Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Khalsa, PhD
Bibiji Inderjit Kaur Khalsa, PhD, holds the distinguished position of Bhai Sahiba or Chief Religious Minister of Sikh Dharma, and she was the wife of Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji for 52 years. To Sikhs around the globe, she is a revered "mother" and honored as an ambassador of good will and a harbinger of interfaith dialogue among religious leaders.
In 2006 she was named the New Mexico Ambassador of Peace by Senator Shannon Robinson. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson appointed Bibiji as his Representative to India in 2007.
In 2005, Bibiji received the honorific 'Panth Rattan,' from Singh Sahib Iqbal Singh of Takhat Sri Patna Sahib. In Sikhism, we honor those people with title of Panth Rattan meaning "The Jewel of the Nation," for outstanding service given to the Sikh panth. It is a title seldom granted, and then only after serious consideration. In November of 2004, Bibiji was recognized by the Akal Takhat as the Bhai Sahiba of Sikh Dharma of the Western Hemisphere, a position she has held in the West since 1975.
In May of 2004, Bibiji was presented with the Kashi Humanitarian Award by the Kashi Ashram in Florida, and in April she was appointed to the Akal Takhat Religious Advisory Counsel in India, a prestigious body of 21 Sikhs selected from among esteemed ministers, teachers, and counselors throughout the world, credentialed and recognized in their fields. The Akal Takhat Advisory Counsel was created to conduct studies and make recommendations to the Akal Takhat on critical issues facing Sikhs in the world today.
The Bhai Sahiba is responsible to advise on Sikh Dharma religious matters and promote good relations with the global community.
Bibiji serves as the head of the 3HO delegation to the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO) body of the United Nations. She is the Founder and Program Director of Create Inner Peace, a program to manage critical incident stress for first responders, utilizing yoga and meditation technology. Bibiji is sought as a public speaker, lecturer, and teacher at hundreds of seminars worldwide.
Bibiji has authored a number of books on Sikh educational principals that are used throughout the world, including Living Reality, a question and answer book for Sikh youth, and the Siri Guru Granth Sahib Blessing, an intricate and esoteric description of the rags (musical scales), poetry, and architectural design of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib, the sacred body of Sikh scripture, hymns, and holy verse. Bibiji is sought as a public speaker, lecturer, and teacher at hundreds of seminars worldwide.
BhaiSahiba@sikhdharmaworldwide.org
SS Gurujot Kaur Khalsa - Secretary General & CEO 
Gurujot Kaur holds the office of the Secretary General of Sikh Dharma Worldwide. Appointed in 2009, she has served the Sikh Dharma community as the CEO of Sikh Dharma International, and Sikh Dharma Worldwide throughout this period of challenge and transformation. She is dedicated to working with our Sikh Dharma communities throughout the world, and fostering inclusive and empowering organizational structures as we move forward in service to humanity. As a long-time member of the Khalsa Council, she served as the body’s Chief Facilitator since 2000, organizing the meetings and setting the agendas for this international leadership body of Sikh Ministers that was inspired and created by the Siri Singh Sahib.
Ordained as a Sikh Minister by the Siri Singh Sahib in 1974, she resides in the Sikh Dharma community in Herndon, VA, which serves the Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland areas. She has served on the Board of Directors of Sikh Dharma of Virginia, and on the Administrative Council focusing on community development. She is also a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, a wife, a mother, a step-mother and a grandmother.
She has participated in numerous public affairs events with the Siri Singh Sahib and Bibiji including 2 presidential inaugurations and congressional meetings and has represented Sikh Dharma at meetings with other national Sikh organizations. She had the privilege and blessing of coordinating the Siri Singh Sahib’s memorial services in Espanola in 2004, where thousands of students, friends and family members came to pay their respects and honor this great man of God.
Gurujot@sikhdharmaworldwide.org
SS Amrit Kaur Khalsa - Chancellor
Amrit Kaur is an attorney in private practice since 1985 in Anchorage, Alaska focusing on Probate Law. She brings her wealth of legal knowledge, experience, and finely honed common sense to the SDW Office of the Chancellor, serving as Chancellor since January 2008. She is a Sikh Minister and since 1992, a Member of the International Khalsa Council, and a past member of the Board of Trustees of Amar Infinity Foundation.
After receiving her law degree, Amrit Kaur served as a law clerk for one of the three judges on the Alaska Court of Appeals (criminal) for one year and then entered the private sector. Since 1987, she has been a Self-employed Attorney focusing on Probate of decedent’s estates, estate planning, guardianship, and small business corporations.
Her educational degrees are J.D., Cum Laude, Gonzaga University School of Law (Spokane, Washington), and B.A. Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude, Spring Hill College (Mobile, Alabama). She has been a Notes Editor & published author with the Gonzaga Law Review, and from 1987 to present she has been a presenter at various legal seminars for other lawyers and for the general public on estate planning, probate, and elder law topics.
She is a member of theAlaska, Anchorage, and American Bar Associations, Estate Planning and Probate Section and the Elder Law Sections of the Alaska Bar, Anchorage Estate Planning Council, and Anchorage Association of Women Lawyers. She is a past member of Alaska Bar Association Ethics Committee from June, 1998 to June, 2007.
She and her husband, a secondary math teacher, are certified Kundalini Yoga teachers, who also enjoy outdoor sports and their granddaughter!
SS SatSundri Kaur Khalsa - General Manager
SS SatSundri Kaur Khalsa has been with SDW as General Manager almost since its inception, in 2010. She works with Public Relations, Sangat and Siblings of Destiny events, writes for the newsletter, manages the Gurpurb calendar and remembrance cards, and works with special projects. She has served most recently from 2008 – 2010 as the Executive Director of Sikh Dharma International, and PR & Marketing coordination for Dashmesh Sadan, Siri Singh Sahib Ji’s home in Anandpur Sahib, Punjab.
She is an early student of the Siri Singh Sahib, meeting him in her student years at University of Oregon, in 1971. Throughout her primarily non-profit centered career from Journalism / Advertising & Marketing to Management in various public sector non-profit work in the 90’s and early 2000s - her dharmic service includes: an Ashram Co-Director through the 70's, and Khalsa Children's Camp & Program Director in the 80's - in India and at Guru Ram Das Puri, New Mexico.
As a Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher, and Sikh Dharma minister, she brings professional skills and love of the Guru to all, and loves to mentor in a new generation, study Sikh history, serve the Sadh Sangat, Naam Simran, and dhyan. SatSundri Kaur is Mataji to 2 children, and Dadiji (grandmother) of one. She feels honored to be in service to the Guru’s mission through SDW at this crucial transition time.
SatSundri@sikhdharmaworldwide.org
SS Guru Kirin Kaur Khalsa - Comptroller General
Guru Kirin Kaur has been working for the Siri Singh Sahib Legacy organizations since 1995. Her focus has been primarily in the financial departments. She has a deep love for the Guru and brings that to her work at Sikh Dharma Worldwide.
She was a pioneer in the India Sikh Dharma educational programs where she went to middle and high school in the foothills of the Himalayas in Northern India.
She has a Bachelor's in Accounting and is currently working to finish her CPA certification.
Amrit Kaur Khalsa - Donor Care Officer
Amrit Kaur is the Donor Care Officer for Sikh Dharma Worldwide. She has been working with Dasvandh since 2000, and is very dedicated to serving and building the prosperity of the Dharma through the practice of Dasvandh. With strong personal belief that giving Dasvandh, one tenth of one’s time, income, and projection, will bring prosperity and blessings into one’s life, she has served and developed the systems for Sikh Dharma’s Dasvandh program for the past ten years.
Amrit Kaur joined the 3HO/Sikh Dharma community in Vancouver, BC over 20 years ago and has been a devoted student every since. She lives in Espanola, NM with her husband, Mehtab Singh, and has two children attending Miri Piri Academy. She and her husband love to serve and help lead the Sustainability group for the Espanola Ashram. They have a small farm and large vegetable garden and are working towards more sustainable, responsible living.
