Nominations

Standing Committee

St. John’s Episcopal

For more than two decades, St. John’s Episcopal Church has been my spiritual home and a place where my faith and vocation have become deeply intertwined. Through leadership in adult formation, vestry service, confirmation class, missions, capital campaigns, rector search, stewardship, and as Senior Warden, I have witnessed and led through numerous transitions. I’ve seen when the Church is at its best, it brings people together in service of something greater than themselves. My experience teaches me that faithful leadership begins with listening, discernment, and trust. I look to expand my ministry beyond the doors of St. John’s and into the Diocese.

Professionally, I have spent more than three decades in executive leadership roles and in board rooms navigating pivotal moments. I work at the intersection of governance, strategy, finance, operational excellence, and organizational leadership, guiding the path through leadership transitions, changing landscapes, and periods of uncertainty. My experience has taught me that lasting progress comes from building a strong talent pipeline, allocating resources wisely, aligning people around a shared purpose, engaging diverse perspectives with respect, and building the trust necessary to move forward together.

I seek to serve on the Standing Committee because I believe the Diocese of Virginia is entering a season that calls for faithful discernment, thoughtful leadership, and collaborative partnership between clergy and laity. I hope to bring a steady presence, sound judgment, and an ability to navigate complexity while keeping our shared mission at the center. My leadership experience helping institutions and organizations across the nonprofit, public, and private sectors through times of transition and succession can support the Diocese as we strengthen our congregations, steward our resources wisely, and faithfully respond to where God is calling us next.

Standing Committee

Christ Church, Winchester

I am a lay Episcopalian with experience in parish governance, diocesan and churchwide leadership, episcopal transition work, and public service, and I would be honored to serve on the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Virginia. My experience at the parish, diocesan, and churchwide levels has given me a deep appreciation for the importance of faithful governance, collaborative discernment, servant leadership, and the ministry of the laity in The Episcopal Church.

Since coming to the Diocese of Virginia, I have had the privilege of serving on the Diocese’s Truth and Reparations Task Force. This ministry has challenged me to listen deeply, engage honestly with difficult aspects of the Church’s history, and consider how our common life can be shaped by truth, reconciliation, accountability, and repair. I have found this work particularly meaningful because it demonstrates that diocesan leadership is not simply about administration or governance; it is about helping the Church faithfully discern how we live into our Baptismal Covenant and our call to seek and serve Christ in all persons.

My experience with diocesan leadership began in the Diocese of New Jersey, where I served on the Cathedral Chapter of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Trenton from 2021 to 2023. I also served on the transition committee responsible for the election and transition of the XIII Bishop of New Jersey from 2021/2022 through 2023. That experience gave me firsthand exposure to the responsibilities of cathedral governance and to the particular demands of episcopal transition. It taught me the importance of prayerful discernment, careful stewardship, transparency, collaboration, and maintaining continuity during periods of significant institutional change.

At the churchwide level, I served on The Episcopal Church’s Task Force to Study Household and Relationship Diversity. This work broadened my understanding of the many ways Episcopalians experience household, family, and community life and reinforced the importance of listening to the lived experiences of people throughout the Church. Serving in this capacity also gave me an appreciation for how local and diocesan ministry connects to the broader mission and governance of The Episcopal Church.

My formation in leadership has also been shaped by my service with FEMA Corps through AmeriCorps NCCC. Through emergency management and disaster response work, I learned to operate in complex and rapidly changing environments, collaborate across organizational and institutional boundaries, communicate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds, and remain focused on mission and service during times of uncertainty. FEMA Corps taught me the importance of servant leadership, preparedness, accountability, stewardship, and building trust-qualities that I believe are equally important in the governance and ministry of the Church.

I am seeking election to the Standing Committee because I believe lay leadership is an essential expression of our shared ministry through Baptism. The Standing Committee has a unique responsibility within the Diocese: to provide faithful governance and oversight while also helping the Diocese discern its direction, support its congregations and ministries, and navigate seasons of change. I would hope to bring to that work the perspective of someone who has served at the parish, diocesan, and churchwide levels and who has experienced both the ordinary work of institutional governance and the particular challenges of transition, reconciliation, and discernment.

I believe I am qualified to serve because my experience has taught me how to listen carefully, collaborate across differences, steward responsibility, ask difficult questions, navigate organizational change, and keep the larger mission in view. Just as importantly, I understand that service on the Standing Committee is fundamentally a ministry of discernment and service, not simply a governance position. I would approach the role with humility, prayerfulness, curiosity, and a willingness to listen to the voices and experiences of people throughout the Diocese.

I would be grateful for the opportunity to offer my experience, perspective, and gifts to the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Virginia, and to join with clergy and lay leaders across the Diocese in faithfully discerning and pursuing the work to which God is calling us.