Beth Hallowell serves as AFSC’s Communications Research Director, where she focuses on narrative change. Her research at AFSC explores the role of media in shaping national discourse in the U.S., with the aim of developing tools for advocates and journalists to ‘change the narrative’ on war and violence. Most recently, she authored the report “Mixed Messages: How the Media Covers Violent Extremism and What You Can Do About It.”
Jennifer Bing has worked with AFSC since 1989, organizing dozens of speaking tours, conferences, educational workshops, protests, delegations, and public events.
Dov Baum is director of AFSC’s Action Center for Corporate Accountability. She has worked with AFSC since 2012. Dov is the co-founder of Who Profits from the Occupation and of the Coalition of Women for Peace in Israel. She is a feminist scholar and teacher who has taught about militarism and the global economy from a feminist perspective in Israeli and U.S. universities.
Becky Steele is a retired lawyer living in Maine. She's an appointed representative of New England Yearly Meeting to the Corporation, and in March 2022, joined AFSC’s Stewardship Committee. Becky is a member of Portland Friends Meeting (NEYM), where she serves on its Ministry and Counsel Committee, its Financial Oversight Committee, and the steering committee for PFM's current meeting-wide threshing as to the right use of the Meeting's resources.
I am a lifelong Quaker, a member of Radnor Monthly Meeting (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) and the granddaughter of Clarence Pickett, AFSC’s Executive Secretary from 1929-1950.
Member of Conscience Bay (NY) Monthly Meeting (Treasurer); New York Yearly Meeting (clerk of the Committee to Revise Faith and Practice; friend and past member, Indian Affairs Committee). Other service includes the Business Incubator Association of New York State (Immediate Past Chair); Community Development Corporation of Long Island (Vice Chair), boards of the Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency, Hauppauge Industrial Association; Long Island Angel Network.