Ms. Wesley Gomez is the Director of Development and External Church Affairs at Berkeley DivinitySchool at Yale.  The first Stewardship Professional on staff at an endowed Episcopal Parish (ChristChurch, Greenwich, CT), she has modeled this ministry for the Consortium and throughout our church. Her Episcopal resume also includes Director of Marketing and Education for the Episcopal Church Foundation, where she co-authored “Funding Future Ministry” a book on planned giving for the Episcopal Church.  She has taught at the College of Bishops and been a national conference presenter, consultant and preacher.  Her passion for stewardship has helped shape the Consortium’s programming over the years.  She currently serves on ECUSA’s Standing Commission on Stewardship, and on the Board of the Friends of the Archbishop of Canterbury Anglican Communion Fund.  Her service on behalf of the Consortium includes serving as Chair of the Annual Conference Committee in 2006 and 2007; serving on the Executive Committee, as Chair of the Stewardship Committee, and directed the Consortium’s fundraising effort for the Pastoral Leadership Search Effort (PLSE).  Her other volunteer activities include building nine Habitat for Humanity Houses; participating in Americares Airlift to Honduras in 2006; participating in a mission trip to Tanzania in 2005; serving in the Junior League of Greenwich, and completing the Marine Corps Marathon in 1996.  She holds her M.S. in Counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA and her B.A. in Sociology from Randolph Macon College in Ashland, VA.  She is married to Max Gomez, and together they have six children.

The Very Rev. James A. Diamond is the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati. He is a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Divinity School and the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he was a doctoral candidate in art history. He served as curate at Trinity Church in Melrose, MA, interim at All Saints in Brookline, MA, eight years as Episcopal Chaplain and rector of the university parish at the University of Minnesota, and eighteen years as rector of Christ Church in Andover, MA.  He was elected Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in June of 1999. Dean Diamond has served on various provincial and national committees of the Episcopal Church.  In Boston, he worked extensively with interfaith programs including a local television series, developed intercultural exchanges with teenagers, and promoted Anglo-Hispanic relations in housing and financial development. The Dean was a member of the visiting faculty at the College of Preachers in Washington, D.C. He is the president of the Community of the Cross of Nails in the United States and a member of the negotiating team working with the Alexandria Process in the Middle East. Dean Diamond has developed the Cathedral Racial Reconciliation Initiative in partnership with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. For more than a decade, Dean Diamond has been an Associate of the Community of the Resurrection, an Anglican Monastery in Yorkshire, England. He has worked with the Jesuit communities in Boston and Cincinnati and is an Ignatian spiritual director. The Diamond family spent a sabbatical in Zimbabwe in 1990. Jim, and his wife, Barbara, moved to Cincinnati with their sons in September, 1999. Barbara Diamond is an attorney and a vice-president of the Knowledgeworks Foundation in Cincinnati.

Malcolm Cooper is a Registered Investment Advisor, Senior Vice President, and member of the Consulting Group with RBC Dain Rauscher in Austin, Texas.  A graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, he holds BBA and MBA degrees.  A member of the Investment Management Consultants Association, he brings over sixty years of combined investment advisory experience.  Mr. Cooper has served as President and Board Member of the Austin Children’s Museum, Trustee and Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Past President and member of the Executive Committee of the Capital Area Council Boy Scouts, Board Member of the Austin Symphony Orchestra, Member of the Admiral’s Club, Member of the Town and Gown of Austin and the University of Texas, and Board Member and Past-President for the Headliners Club of Austin.  Mr. Cooper is a recipient of the honorary awards from the Boy Scouts, Silver Antelope and Silver Beaver.  In 1988, he was awarded a Doctor of Humane letters (Honoris Causa) from the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest. Currently, he is Senior Warden at St. David’s in Austin.

Karen Royce attends ChristChurch in Greenwich, CT, where she has resided for 18 years.  She was confirmed in the Congregational church (now United Church of Christ) as a teenager in San Carlos, California, and was received as an Episcopalian in 1987 at ChristChurch.  Karen retired from her Wall Street career in 1986 to be a full-time mother, and as it turned out, a full-time volunteer.  She has pursued her interests in human services, horticulture, the arts and community development in volunteer work.  In the process she gained new skills in fundraising and management and honed other skills in communication, logistics and leadership.  Since her first visit in 1995 Karen has been involved in the relationship between ChristChurch and the Anglican Diocese of Mount Kilimanjaro (DMK) in Tanzania and currently serves as co- chair of the ministry.  In addition to supporting missionaries there, the relationship has included the construction of a guesthouse in Arusha, Tanzania, the ongoing Holy Cow and Goat project, and the installation of rainwater harvesting tanks, the sponsorship of pastors and evangelists for theological education and the funding of new churches and pastor’s houses.  She led  Evangelical Safaris to the DMK in 1998, 2005 and 2007. Karen enjoys traveling, gardening, reading, the arts, learning, walking and visiting with family and friends.

The Reverend Canon George W. Brandt, Jr., has served as Rector of St. Michael’s Church in New York City since 1994.  St. Michael’s, located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, has a congregation of 900 baptized members and 600 communicants.  Prior to being called to St. Michael’s, Canon Brandt served as Canon for worship and community outreach at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta.  From 1983-86, Brandt served as Provincial Secretary of the Church of the Province of Central Africa and personal assistant to the Archbishop. Canon Brandt’s lay professional background includes a law practice in New York City as a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a litigator with the law firm of Rogers and Wells.  He holds a J.D. from BostonCollegeLawSchool, and an M.Div. from Nashotah House.  He serves as a Trustee of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; a member of the Russia Committee; Provincial Canon for the Church of the Province of Central Africa; a member of the Urban Caucas; a member of the Union of Black Episcopalians; and, a member of the Standing Commission on Constitution and Canons of the National Convention.

The Rev. Richard A. Burnett became the twenty-fourth rector of Trinity Episcopal Church on Capitol Square in Columbus, Ohio in 1997. He came to Columbus from St. James, New York, where he was rector from 1990 to 1997. Born in New York City and raised in Harrisburg, PA, he holds an AB degree in English from DickinsonCollege and an M.Div. from BerkeleyDivinitySchool at Yale. He was ordained priest in 1983, and his emphasis in ministry has been church and society, economic justice and congregational development. At Trinity, Dick leads a vibrant downtown congregation committed to spiritual formation, public ministry and worship reflective of a diverse congregation. Currently, he is a member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Southern Ohio, the National Advisory Committee for BerkeleyDivinitySchool at Yale, and the board of trustees of the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes.  Dick serves on the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Southern Ohio; as Co-Ecumenical Officer, and he has represented the diocese on the board of the Ohio Council of Churches. He convenes the Public Policy and Social Justice Committee in Southern Ohio, and works closely with the Episcopal Public Policy Network nationally and in Ohio. A Deputy to the 73^rd General Convention, Dick has been Dean of the Columbus Deanery since 2001. Trinity and the other congregations in the Columbus Deanery welcomed the Episcopal Church’s 75^th General Convention when it met in Columbus in June 2006.  Dick is married to Katharine Frisch Burnett, a nurse practitioner with Planned Parenthood Federation’s national office. They have three grown children all living in New York City. He is active in a variety of urban, ecumenical and educational ministries in Columbus, the Diocese of Southern Ohio and nationally

Gregory P. Cobbs has been a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Morristown, NJ for more than 20 years, where he served on the Vestry, Christian Formation Commission and as co-chair of the ERACISM (Anti-Racism) Program. He is currently a Professor of Business and Management at FelicianCollege in Rutherford, New Jersey. Gregory's career prior to teaching included business development, strategic alliance and non-profit advisory services. He holds a JD degree from The Seton Hall School of Law, and BA and MPA degrees from LehighUniversity.  Elected Junior Warden at St. Peter’s in January of 2007, Cobbs has served on the Consortium’s Faith in Action (Outreach) Committee for 3 years and has been a presenter for the Consortium at Regional Meetings and the annual conference on the subject of ending racism and reinvigorating outreach ministry.

The Rev. Paul Collins became the 10th Rector of Trinity Parish Church in the fall of 1998. He describes himself as an eastern Washington farm kid. He pursued his education at WashingtonStateUniversity and the ChurchDivinitySchool of the Pacific in Berkeley, California. This was during the "interesting times" of social uproar and the Viet Nam conflict, and Fr. Paul says the briefly popular pass-fail system helped him immeasurably. More education followed, in Educational Psychology at the University of Washington, and ten years of working as a "jail bureaucrat." He likes to say he met his wife, Kathie Deviney, in jail. As a priest, Fr. Paul has served at the parishes of St. David, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick. Before coming to Trinity, he spent 10 years as vicar at St. Hilda and St. Patrick's. Active in diocesan affairs, he has participated as a General Convention Deputy on two occasions and says he has been amply punished for his sins through committee membership.

Maria Elliott has been the Stewardship Coordinator at TrinityChurch since 1996. She has served ex-officio on the Vestry, the Finance Committee, the Long-Range Planning Committee and the Endowment Committee.  She has been a member of the Diocesan Stewardship Commission and The Diocesan Rebuilding Committee.  She currently serves on the board of The Episcopal Network for Stewardship and Grace Episcopal Child Care Center, as well as serving as Co-chair of the Consortium’s Annual Conference for 2008. She is a member of Trinity’s choir, the Taizé music ministry and has been involved with an Education for Ministry group for the past eight years.  Maria is married to The Reverend Michael Kuhn and they have two children in Episcopal schools.

Ms. Sandra Ferguson McPhee, Esq., member of St. Matthew’s, EvanstonIL, is an attorney specializing in estate planning and not-for-profit corporations with more than 30 years of experience in the field. A member of St. Matthew’s, Evanston, Illinois, McPhee has served her parish on the vestry, as treasurer, warden, and as endowment trustee.  She is active in international Episcopal mission work, most recently as convener of the Episcopal Partnership for Global Mission.  She also has served as the Administrator for the American Committee for KEEP (Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project) in Kiyosato, Japan.  McPhee did her undergraduate work at Smith, and holds her law degree from BostonUniversity.  She was elected to Executive Council of the Episcopal Church during the 2003 General Convention and chairs the Executive Council's International Concerns Committee for the 2006-2009 triennium

H.M. (Mac) McFarling III, MD is one of the most inspiring laymen in the Episcopal Church today on the subject of stewardship. A member of St. Luke's Atlanta since 1980, he has served on the vestry there twice and as Senior Warden. He served as St. Luke's Stewardship Chair 1990-91, and has been active with the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes since 1991, when he was elected to both the Board of Directors and the Stewardship Committee of the Consortium. During his term as Chair of the Stewardship Committee, he developed the "Spiritual Seasons of Stewardship" workshop for the Consortium. Mac was elected as Chair of the Episcopal Church Foundation’s Board of Directors in May 2006 and has been a board member since 1998. He also serves as Vice President on the board of the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes, and has served in several leadership capacities in his home parish at St. Luke’s, Atlanta, GA. He has an Obstetrics and Gynecology group practice in Atlanta. Mac and his wife Ginna have three daughters and are involved with numerous organizations that serve the needs of women and children.

Rees Roderick Olander, a staff member of Christ Church Cathedral Indianapolis since 1996, began a new ministry as the parish's first lay Canon in 2008. Professionally, she serves on the Annual Conference Committee of the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes where she has created the program for the Parish Administrator’s pre-conference as well as presenting several workshops over the years for our annual conference.  Rees is a former board member of The Episcopal Network for Stewardship and has led workshops for the National Association of Episcopal Christian Education Directors, the National Association of Church Business Administration, several parishes, dioceses and not-for-profit organizations.  A lifelong Episcopalian she has also worked professionally since 1987 in a variety of roles for the Episcopal Church in Georgia and Indiana as a parish administrator, adult Christian education coordinator and a communications director.  Rees has served the larger community as a board member of Children’s Bureau Inc. of Indiana since 1998, including a year as chair of the board, and on a variety of civic committees.  A dedicated Kansas Jayhawk, she owes her love for communicating the Gospel to her background in print journalism at the University of Kansas.

George Plews is an attorney in private practice in Indianapolis.  He is Chancellor for the Diocese of Indianapolis and the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes.  He regularly represents policyholders in insurance coverage claims of all kinds and he has helped recover over $150 million in claims over the past ten years.  He and his 24-lawyer firm also handle environmental, toxic tort and other complex litigation.  A member of the Board of Directors of St. Richard’s School and the Vestry of Trinity Episcopal Church, he is a graduate of Princeton University, Oxford University, and the Harvard Law School.