Meet the Board of Directors
Eric Clay, Founder — Fostering Multifaith and Secular Communities
Peaches Gillette, Board Chair — The Intimate Whimsy of the World Around Me
Hugh McElyea, Board Secretary — A Shared Journey Toward Community in Freeville
Joe Regenstein, Board Treasurer — Food Makes Us Human in Specific Cultural and Religious Ways
Lisa Christian, Board Member — Diverse families, cultures, ethnicities, and faith traditions
Jim Grant, Board Member — My Incarnation at a Time of Civilization and Environmental Collapse
Jarra Jagne, Board Member — Women, Youth and Animal Agriculture in West Africa
Cintia Orsi, Board Member — The Journey Is Not Mine but God's; I Share With Gratitude and Thanksgiving
Suzanne Scholten, Board Member — Doing the Work of the Body and the Mind
John Svensson, Board Member — A Journey of Really Listening to Older Adults
Areas of Expertise
Practical Knowledge: What I know about differences, I learned from persons not books.
Secular Starting Point: Knowing the Persons Around Us
Political education: Red or Blue? Why the complexion of your state should have no effect on your way of life.
Race, class and the cultivation of healthy desire: Exploring our longings, desires, and identities with honesty and little or no manipulation, in communities of mutual accountability. Addressing, and correcting distortions consumerism and sexual identity.
Promoting capacity for engaging community among those emerging from addiction, homelessness, and/or incarceration.
Science as a practical tool to assist in our diverse ways of life, and to experience wonder.
In a multifaith world, freedom of religion is a way of life. Respect for all ways of life, only controlling for coercion of any persons and inequity in public use of and access to resources.
Making democracy real within a capitalist economy. A new accounting for wealth, both private and public. How to support voting with both market dollars and unpaid labor for fair access to housing, food, education and health care.