Our Leadership
2026-2027 Executive Committee
President: Terry Shoemaker
Terry is an Assistant Professor of Religion, Truman State University.
Vice President: Rebekah Adderley, Ed.D.
Dr. Rebekah Adderley is a Professor of Communication at the Tarrant County Connect Campus.
Executive Director: Vivienne Felix, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Center for Career Advising and Networking at Washington & Jefferson College.
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Secretary & Treasurer
Secretary: Christina L. Romero, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Education in the Division of Education at Indiana University (IU) Kokomo, Co-director Para Educators Pathway, Indiana University Kokomo
Treasurer: Julie Phillips, MD, MPH
Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Board of Directors
Eric Bain-Selbo, PhD
PhD in Religious Ethics (The University of Chicago)
Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Southeast Missouri State University
Stephen Baker
Akua Cosby, EdD
Doctor of Education (EdD)
Learning Experience Designer
Department: Innovative Digital Learning
East Texas A&M University
Blayne Harcey, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion
Dickinson College
Dorothy Hurlburt
Amy Lampazzi
Sarah Moore
Staff
Managing Director: Sandy McAllister
MEd from the University of Massachusetts, BA in English from Boston University
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With gratitude, we acknowledge the invaluable leadership of our former presidents:
Rev. Melanie A. Howard, Ph.D.
Associate Provost
Associate Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Messiah University.
Allen Dunn
He is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. He served as editor of Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal from 1991-2000.
Cathy Bao-Bean
Author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle, A Memoir and Manual, co-author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle x 2, A Bilingual Reader with Dongdong Chen, and The Course for Cross-Cultural Communication, also with Dongdong Chen. Team Leader of the Summer Workshop for College Teachers
Pat Barnes-McConnell
Director of Bean/Cowpea CRSP, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
Joel Cunningham
Former Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of the South and earlier President of Susquehanna University
David Hoekema
professor emeritus of Philosophy at Calvin College, recently authored We are the Voice of the Grass:Interfaith Peace Activism in Uganda.
James T. Laney
former U.S. Ambassador to Korea, President of Emory University, and Dean of Candler School of Theology.
John Maguire
President Emeritus of Claremont University Consortium & Graduate University; Director/Senior Fellow, Institute for Democratic Renewal/Project Change, Claremont, CA; President Emeritus, College at Old Westbury, State University of New York.
J. Alfred Martin, Jr.
former professor at Union Theological Seminary.
John Nason
former President of Swarthmore College.
Virginia B. Smith
former Acting President of Mills College; President emerita of Vassar College; Director of the Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education (FIPSE); President of the Board of the Educational Testing Service.
Robert A. Spivey
Senior Associate and Ombudsman for The Florida State University Foundation; former President of Randolph Macon Woman’s College and the VA Foundation for Independent Colleges.
Jon Wiant
Senior Visiting Fellow with the Intelligence and Security Academy, and a consultant with the Institute for Excellence in Public Leadership; Adjunct Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University; decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal from Porter Good of the CIA, and the Career Achievement Award from Secretary Colin Powell; and commands an army of more than 6000 toy soldiers.
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