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Board of Directors
March 2011

(Titles and organizations are as of 2010 and are for identification only; no endorsement is implied.)

Chair
Reverend Alton B. Pollard, III, Dean
Howard University School of Divinity

Vice Chair
Reverend Steve Clapp
President, Christian Community

Treasurer
Richard Simms
Executive Director, DC Center for Independent Living

Secretary
Melissa Winham,
United Methodist Student Movement

Chair of the Council of Governors
Linda Bales Todd
UMC General Board of Church & Society

President and CEO (ex officio)
Reverend Carlton W. Veazey
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

Immediate Past Chair of the Board
Carol Blowers
Director of Governmental Affairs, Family Planning Advocates of New York State

Joan Brannick
Former Chief Executive of the Pension Boards, United Church of Christ

Rita Nakashima Brock
Faith Voices for the Common Good

Reverend Ken Brooker-Langston
Director, Disciples Justice Action Network

LeRoy Carhart, MD, Lt. Col., USAF MC (retired)

Reverend Louis A. Chase

Lori Valencia Green

Nazir U. Khaja, MD, Torrance Memorial Medical Center


Joan LaMunyon-Sanford, Western Region Affiliate Representative, New Mexico Religious Coalition

Kate Lannamann
Eastern Affiliate Representative, Connecticut Religious Coalition

Jill Morrison

Reverend Aaron Payson
Unitarian Universalist Church of Worcester

Reverend Loey M. Powell
Justice & Witness Ministries - UCC

Jacinta Montoya Price

F. Alexis Roberson
President and CEO, Opportunities Industrialization Center of DC

Reverend Edwin Sanders, II
Metropolitan Interdenominational Church

Edith V. Silvas

Dr. Alethea R. Smith-Withers

Katey Zeh