Esther is a member of Nyanko Monthly Meeting of Highland’s Yearly Meeting in Kenya. Esther is an academic with many years of experience on teaching and research on religion and community issues. She has experience on chairing boards for ecumenical and interfaith organizations.
Member, Salt Lake City Friends Meeting, Intermountain Yearly Meeting. Darlene McDonald is a technology professional, author, social and keyboard activist. She has a B.S degree in Business Information Technology Management from Western Governors University. Darlene also maintains and runs The Black Library, an online repository dedicated to literature written by African American and Black writers.
Member, Matinecock Monthly Meeting. I have been married to my wife Colleen Ahern Fortuna for 24 years, we have three children and two grandchildren. I am the owner and president of S & C Services, a small business located on Long Island, NY.
Member, Atlanta Monthly Meeting and Pocatello Friends Worship Sharing Group.
Member, Adelphi Friends Meeting, Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Naveed is a British-born Pakistani and Muslim-Quaker. Member, Chapel Hill Friends Meeting (North Carolina), Piedmont Friends Yearly Meeting and remains affiliated with Mid-Thames Area Meeting (formerly Reading Monthly Meeting) in the UK.
Actress holds a Masters in Social Work from the University of Chicago and a Masters in Sociology from DePaul University. Actress has volunteered with the Midwest Region since interning in 2006 as a graduate student. She previously worked on capital defense teams as a mitigation specialist on state and federal cases in Illinois and Michigan.
Álvaro Alvarado is Presiding Clerk of the AFSC Corporation and Board of Directors and a member of Sacramento Friends Meeting. He holds a PhD in Environmental Toxicology from the University of California, Riverside, and works for the California Air Resources Board.
Member, Newtown Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Veronica is a native of El Salvador who came to the United States at age 9. Her native language is Spanish, though she is proficient in French and has some knowledge of Portuguese. Veronica is a graduate of Princeton University and the Georgetown University Law Center and holds both a J.D. and a Masters in the School of Foreign Service.
Luis Paiz Bekker is a physician trained in Tropical Medicine, public health, social epidemiology, and systems-thinking. Luis has extensive experience working in the fields of Public Health and Human Rights in humanitarian aid and development in Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe, with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), CARE International and Oxfam International.