Board Members

Barbara Andrews

Barbara Andrews is a birthright member of Friends and considers herself to be on a lifelong journey of learning about and listening to Friends. She is currently a member of Rahway-Plainfield (N.J.) Meeting where she does active ministry with youth. She has been an educator for over 40 years with particular interests in literacy, both children’s and adults’. She has helped with young authors’ programs on many levels. She is a Board member for the McCutchen Friends Home in New York Yearly Meeting where she is on the Personnel, Nominating, and FAIR Committees. She is on the Central Committee of Friends General Conference where she serves on the Long Range Conference Planning Committee. She is also president of Somerset County Retired Educators and works as an advocate for retirees. Barbara resides in Three Bridges, N.J. with her husband, Louis, and cat children, Tigger and Little One.

Paul M.A. Baker

Professionally, Paul M.A. Baker, Ph.D., is Director of Research, Center for Advanced Communications Policy, and an Adjunct Professor with the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology. He also holds appointments as Professor, (Courtesy Appointment), Ph.D. Program in Public Affairs, College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida. Recent projects include policy barriers to the adoption of wireless technologies by people with disabilities, teleworking and people with disabilities, online collaboration and virtual communities, collaborative policy networks and e-accessibility, social media and policy development. He is also involved in international policy research, especially as it relates to issues of technological accessibility and information technologies. Baker holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason University, an M.P. in Urban Planning from the University of Virginia. He is chair of the Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America’s (RESNA) Government Affairs Committee and serves on the editorial boards of seven journals.

Baker is currently (since 1999) a sojourner with the Atlanta Friends Meeting (AFM), and has been a member/attender of Friends Meeting of Washington (FMW). He was also a member of the Membership Committee (FMW), 1996-9. Additional activities include: member, Adult Religious Education Committee (AFM), 2001-2004, Convener, 5th day Evening Meeting for Worship (2002-2003), member, Care and Counsel Committee (AFM) 2009-Present, Administrator of Facebook Page, for Care and Counsel Committee (AFM) (in development), Co-manager (w/ Neil Fullagar) of the Religious Society of Friends - Quakers on LinkedIn Social Networking Site (219 members). He also completed a Masters in Theology (2007), Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta.

Paul Buckley

Paul Buckley is a Quaker historian and theologian. He has written books on William Penn and Elias Hicks and feels comfortable with anything from the 17th and 19th centuries. He also wrote a book on the Lord's Prayer and edited The Quaker Bible Reader and has a great interest in how Quakers read scripture. Beyond that, he has written a couple of dozen of articles on contemporary Quaker faith and practice.

Jim Cavener

Jim Cavener is a third-generation Southern Californian who was first exposed to the Society of Friends over half-century ago. He's been active in Meetings in Claremont, CA (Pacific YM), New Haven (NEYM), Aberdeen, Scotland (Britain YM), Geneve, Switzerland, Ames, IA (Iowa Conservative YM), Paris (French YM), Wilmington, OH (Wilmington, YM), Morningside MM (NYYM), Vienna (Austria), Friends Meeting of Washington (Baltimore YM) and for the past 33 years, Asheville, NC (SAYMA). He has worked for, or on boards or committees of AFSC (Eastern and Western Europe, North Africa, the Middle East), AFSC regional and program offices (Pasadena, New York City, Des Moines, Baltimore, Atlanta, Washington, DC), FCNL Program Committee, Friends World College, Friends Journal Board of Managers, Wilmington College, FGC (14 years on Long-Range Planning Committee, 6 years on Executive Committee), on planning committees for a dozen or more FGC Gatherings, including the two most recent at Blacksburg, VA. Archivist/Historian of Pacific YM, and recently on SAYMA committees. Co-clerked second FGC Gathering at Berea, KY.
Jim Cavener has been an adult delegate to a White House Conference on Youth, six years a Member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO (a Dept. of State Advisory Commission), been delegate to ACLU biennial in Seattle, UNESCO conferences in Ghana, San Francisco, Denmark, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Stockholm and Houston. Was on the board of The National Center for Voluntary Action in DC. Currently on board of the Western North Carolina ACLU, and the longest-sitting member of the board of the North Carolina state ACLU. Has been on planning committee for 2007 and the current 2011 Mid-winter Gatherings of FLGBTQC, for February 18-21, near Greensboro, NC. As a third career, has been a daily print journalist for the past quarter-century, both at papers in Southern California and the Asheville Citizen-Times.

Stephen Dotson

Stephen Dotson is a convinced Friend from a military family. He became involved in the camping programs at Baltimore Yearly Meeting, and he and his mother joined Quakers at the same time, when he was fourteen, she was thirty-seven. He has a piece in the book Spirit Rising. He’s a member of Goose Creek, BYM. He studied at Guilford, where he was ‘cracked open to diversity,’ including that of Friends. He has been traveling among Friends, doing some ecumenical work, has studied Buddhism in India, is a Christian Universalist. Stephen has been working with QUIP, and is very interested in Quaker publishing

Linda Edgerton

Linda Edgerton is an independent communications consultant, writer and editor working with businesses and organizations across the nation and around the globe. She is a former reporter and editor for a daily newspaper and former member of the public relations team for three Fortune® 500 companies – AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Avaya. Edgerton resides in Greensboro, N.C., where she is active in New Garden Friends Meeting and is on the Board of Visitors for Guilford College. She is married to Tom Edgerton, a fellow New Gardener and an award-winning portrait artist.

A. M. Fink

A.M. Fink is a Friend, a research mathematician, woodworker, singer, symphony stage manager, mediation workshop leader, gardener, committee member, social service agency volunteer, and when the occasion calls for it, a snow shoveler. He spent 43 years working formally in industry and universities in three countries and parlayed his work into travel to most of the 48 lower continental states and 11 foreign countries. As a Friend, he has held every office and committee membership in his local monthly meeting at one time or another. Currently he is the clerk of the trustees of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) as well as a 25-year member of the midyear planning committee. He also served on the FGC Gathering Planning Committee for about 10 years. His wife, Deborah is probably known to many through her 20-year service on various American Friends Service Committee committees. Son Philip Fink lives in New Zealand and son George Finklang in California, along with his wife and two children. We have a courageous Gordon setter named Cassie and two spoiled cats, Figaro and Bystrouska.

Dana Kester-McCabe

Dana Kester-McCabe is a lifelong member of the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers). She serves on a variety of local and regional Quaker committees on Delmarva which is in the Southern Quarter of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Dana has over 30 years of creative experience, having worked in internet, video, and print design, as well as writing for public relations, advertising, and news, as well as curriculum planning for arts and religious education. Dana is the publisher of Delmarva-almanac.com.

Paul Landskroener

Paul Landskroener attended his first Friends meeting for worship in the summer of 1977 in Valparaiso, Indiana. He was a founding member of Duneland Friends Meeting in Valparaiso when it joined Illinois Yearly Meeting in 1980, and was its first presiding clerk. In 1991, after graduating from law school, he moved with his family to Minneapolis and now belongs to Twin Cities (Minn.) Friends Meeting in St. Paul.

Paul is married to Marybeth Neal and has four children. He plays banjo and accordion and often leads group singing. He also sings shape note music from the Sacred Harp and has led workshops on Sacred Harp at several Quaker gatherings. Professionally, Paul works as a lawyer and recently opened his own practice.

Paul's principal religious concern these days is to better understand Friends' peculiar and prophetic message and its unique place in Christendom and the world's other religious traditions, especially as much of the world has adopted superficial elements of Friends' traits without experiencing the inner conviction that generates and sustains those characteristics. He is fascinated by the amount and quality of Quaker correspondence taking place on Internet blogs. But he sees Friends Journal as a vital channel for articulating and publishing that message and welcomes the opportunity to become part of its work.

Pat LaViscount

Pat LaViscount is a member of Brooklyn Meeting, NYYM and an attender at Annapolis Meeting, Baltimore Yearly Meeting. She is a published poet and essayist. Pat spent many years in New York City working as a consultant for health and social service organizations. She was the founder and co-facilitator of a Black Women's Group that focused on organizing and supporting community based programs that supported wellness in various forms. She left New York City in the late 1990s to attend Earlham School of Religion. Since graduation (M.Div) in 1998, she has worked as a chaplain, continued her work as workshop leader, and facilitator and continues to write.

Pete McCaughan

Pete McCaughan has been active in Friends meetings in Honolulu, Hawaii; Marin County, Calif.; Wilton, Conn.; St. Paul, Minn.; and Atlanta, Ga., where he now resides with his wife, Renda. Renda and Pete have two grown children, David and Michael, and a grandchild, Samantha.

Pete is a member of Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting. He sits on the board of Decision Bridges, a not-for-profit organization that promotes decision making by consensus. He designed and built their first website.

Pete spent his professional life in data processing services for the payroll and human resources industry. He has experience in regional and corporate product management, product and business development, strategic planning, program and project management, and account relationship management. Pete has designed payroll services products and services and evaluated joint ventures, merger/acquisition candidates, potential alliances and partnerships.

Cameron McWhirter

Cameron Mc Whirter is a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He was the Friends Journal volunteer news editor when he was with the Detroit Free Press. He is a member of Atlanta Friends Meeting. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, from Hamilton College, where he majored in history. He earned a masters degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and has worked for several news organizations including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Detroit News. He has been awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for research in Eritrea and the Sudan, and a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University, where he conceived the book Red Summer, about the race riots in 1919, which is just out. He lives in Decatur, Georgia with his wife and two children.

Christopher Mohr

Christopher Mohr is a member of San Francisco Monthly Meeting, where he was meeting clerk from 2007 to 2011. He has also served in several positions in his monthly, quarterly and yearly meetings, including clerk of children’s program committee for Pacific Yearly Meeting. A nonprofit fundraiser and affordable housing advocate, Chris was executive director of the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County, California, from 2003 to 2011, during which time he also ran the Housing Endowment And Regional Trust—the HEART of San Mateo County—which invested over $8 million in the construction, renovation or purchase of 667 affordable homes. Chris previously worked for Random House and Physics Today magazine, so he is excited to return to publishing through his volunteer service to Friends Journal. He moved to Philadelphia in 2011 with his wife Robin, who is the executive secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas.

Nancy Moore

Nancy Moore, a new Board member in 2005, has an interest in Friends Journal that finds its roots not just in her 20-some years as a convinced Quaker, but also in her twin drives towards always searching for more truth and constantly trying to find better ways to communicate that truth she feels she has found. It might be easy to guess her career path from these interests-first a history student at college, then a teacher (mostly elementary school), and currently a First-day school teacher at her home meeting, Baltimore-Stony Run. She even found time for years of co-editing a neighborhood newspaper. She's been equally much an activist as a seeker, beginning with the civil rights struggle, continuing into the peace movement, and always with an interest in improving conditions in her own community of Baltimore as well as abroad. This has led her to be active with AFSC as well as with Friends General Conference. Her meeting commitments have led to work on countless Stony Run committees, in between active parenting of her two children-who are now active in Young Adult Friends. She looks forward to a new chapter of involvement with Friends Publishing Corporation.

Ann Trueblood Raper

Ann Trueblood Raper served on the FPC board several years ago and is looking forward to the work ahead. She has experience in board operations and fund-raising, is incoming vice chair of the Guilford College board and current chair of the Trusteeship & Governance Committee, and has a deep appreciation for the Friends Journal.

Joseph E. Rogers, Jr.

Joseph Rogers was born and raised in a Quaker family in Moorestown, N.J. He attended Moorestown Friends, Haverford, Cornell, and Yale and taught organic chemistry at Carleton and Earlham. He was vice president of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, and provided university relations with ERDA and U.S. Department of Energy. He was chief program officer of The Petroleum Research Fund (a $400 million research trust) with the American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. Joe has served on boards and/or larger committees of Young Friends of North America; Friends World Committee, (then) American Section; AFSC; FCNL (finance clerk); FGC (finance clerk and campaign committee); Pendle Hill (current finance clerk, was clerk of development and governance/nominating). He is currently retired, living with his wife, Trudy, near Chestertown, Md., where both are active in their local meeting (she as presiding clerk, he as finance clerk). He enjoys travel, birding, photography, boating, fishing, and tennis.

Jim Rose

Jim Rose is particularly familiar with print-on-demand printing having already published ten volumes, predominantly on Quaker themes. He was involved with Pendle Hill in scanning, formatting, and publishing over 100 out-of-print pamphlets for free access on the web. Retired from twenty years with the Hubble Space Telescope, Jim has used his web experience to assist Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Quaker Universalist Fellowship, and other non-profits develop viable web sites. A member of BYM’s Faith & Practice Revision committee, Jim has been working for several years on updating, editing, and publishing the draft documents on an annual basis.

Janet Ross

Janet Ross lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where she attends Toronto Monthly Meeting and teaches Religion at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Originally, Janet is from the small town of Haviland, Kansas, where her family has been in membership in the Haviland Friends Church for over 100 years. An early interest in Hebrew led Janet to study religion at Barclay College, then after a three-year hiatus working at the Mid-America Yearly Meeting Headquarters in Wichita, Janet returned to school to obtain a Master of Divinity Degree at Candler School of Theology and a PhD. in Hebrew Scriptures, Greco-Roman Christian Backgrounds and Islamic Studies at Emory University.

Her primary areas of publication and interest include religions and social change, women and religion, and apocalyptic interpretations and implications.

George Rubin

George Rubin was Brooklyn born and raised. He entered the Army Air Force after high school, and in 1944 his bomber was shot down over Munich and he became a POW. After the war, he attended college and graduated from Clark University, then received a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine from the College of Podiatric Medicine in New York City. George retired after 40+ years in private and group practice on Long Island. He and his wife Margery have been living at Medford Leas for the last seven years. George became a convinced Quaker after World War II. As an active member of New York Yearly Meeting, he served as clerk of Westbury Monthly Meeting, served on many committees of Manhasset Monthly Meeting and was the clerk of New York Yearly Meeting. He has been a board member of American Friends Service Committee, clerk of the NY Metro region of AFSC, representative and member of the Executive Committee of Friends World Committee for Consultation, board member of Friends Center Corp., representing FWCC. Past member of the Quaker UN Committee and one of the news editors of Friends Journal, George is an active member of Medford (N.J.) Monthly Meeting. At Medford Leas, he is vice-president of the Residents Council, member of the Creative Writers Group and on the editorial boards of Medford Leas Lit, a bi-annual literary magazine. He and Margery celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary in 2009. They have five children (two deceased), and four grandchildren

Christine Snyder

Christine Hadley Snyder was born and raised on a farm in Clinton County, Ohio that has been in the same Quaker family since settlement in1806. She has been active in the Society of Friends, growing up in rural Springfield Meeting and Wilmington Yearly Meeting. She participated in the establishment of Dayton Friends Meeting in the early 1970s, and has served as Presiding Clerk of her Meeting, and as Presiding Clerk of Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting, as well as on many committees. Christine has served on the Executive Committee of Friends World Committee on Consultation, Section of the Americas, and helped found the Bi-Lingual Communications Committee.

After graduation from Ohio State University with a degree in science education, she and her husband served n the US Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic and El Salvador. She has taught science in public schools, and then after completion of a degree in Spanish and a master’s degree in Latin American studies, taught as an adjunct at Wright State University. She has traveled widely for Friends organizations, and for pleasure and education.
She served on the Board of Trustees of Wilmington College from 1994-2006, serving as Chair of the Board for four years. She has served many years on the Board and committees of Quaker Heights Care Community in Waynesville, OH.

She studied accounting in order to support her husband’s project to build a veterinary clinic which opened in 1976, and she worked for thirty one years as administrator and CFO for their veterinary practice in Kettering (Dayton) Ohio, which grew to over six doctors and 35 professional and support staff. She and her husband Gene retired in 2006, and built a home on the family farm. She maintains the c1830 brick house and barn as a Quaker museum for tours and for family, Meeting and community events.
She is currently President of the Clinton County Genealogical Society, and recently planned six tours to places of Quaker interest for the July 2011 FUM Triennial sessions which took place in Wilmington OH.

She and her husband have three grown sons, who currently reside with their families in New Haven CT, in San Diego CA, and in Norman OK.

Monica Walters-Field

Monica Walters-Field is a member of Toronto Monthly Meeting of the Canadian Yearly Meeting and lives in Toronto with her partner and two sons.
Monica is an educator who has worked as a teacher, technical director, and program leader in the Toronto District School Board with multicultural youth and adults. She has gained invaluable experience working with people who have special needs and who learn differently. She has special interest and experience in art, counseling, human rights education, gender equity, and indigenous issues.
Monica is committed to lifelong learning, volunteerism, and the power of reconciliation, and she appreciates all opportunities to form partnerships that will advance positive relations. Her daily sustainer and encourager is her firm belief that we are all related and can live with “hope and imagination.”