Holly Baldwin, Clerk

Holly Baldwin is a Spiritual Director, retreat leader, and group facilitator. She has served in a variety of Quaker leadership roles, both in both staff and governance positions. She served for 11 years as Director of the Beacon Hill Friends House, and has held various positions at Friends General Conference. In volunteer capacity, she has served as clerk of the Permanent Board of New England Yearly Meeting. Holly is a member of Fresh Pond Monthly Meeting (New England Yearly Meeting) sojourning at Albuquerque Monthly Meeting (Intermountain Yearly Meeting.)

Mackenzie Morgan, Recording Clerk

Mackenzie Morgan is a member of Adelphi Friends Meeting in Baltimore Yearly Meeting. She has recently completed six years on BYM’s Advancement & Outreach Committee, for which she served several years as clerk and has now moved to Adelphi’s equivalent committee.

As an extrovert who is extremely at-home with technology, Mackenzie has been active for several years on social media sharing information about Quakers with anyone who has questions.

Traci Hjelt Sullivan, Treasurer

Traci Hjelt Sullivan worships with Chapel Hill Friends Meeting (PFF-YM) and is a member of Green Street Friends Meeting (PhYM). She starts her service as General Secretary of Right Sharing of World Resources in December 2024. Previously, Traci worked for more than 25 years for Quaker nonprofits, including Interim Executive Director of Pendle Hill from July 2019 to August 2020, and organizer of the FGC Gathering from 2006 to 2015.

Traci lives with her spouse and is the mother of two adult daughters and an adorable grandchild. She is excited that Thee Quaker is broadcasting conversations about what Quakers believe and how those beliefs impact the lives we lead. She hopes this leads to similar conversations among Friends across the world, and to bringing more people into the conversation.

Andy Stanton-Henry

Andy is a writer, Quaker minister, and keeper of chickens. He has served and worshipped widely among Friends and is a graduate of both Barclay College and Earlham School of Religion. He currently serves as the associate director of the Quaker Leadership Center, a ministry of Earlham School of Religion. A native Buckeye, Andy and his spouse, Ashlyn, now live in East Tennessee with their four dogs and eleven laying hens. Together, they co-pastor Lost Creek Friends Church. Andy carries a special concern for rural ministry, leading to his recently published book Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders. 

Dan Kasztelan

Dan Kasztelan is the Communications Director for Friends United Meeting, working out of the Richmond office. He oversees the structure and design of the FUM web site and social media platforms, edits Quaker Life: a mosaic of Friendly living, and assists with Friends United Press. He began at FUM in October of 2015.

Dan has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in history from The Johns Hopkins University, graduate training in communications photography from Syracuse University, and a Master of Ministry degree from the Earlham School of Religion. He has been a news photographer, a Quaker pastor, and the campus minister at a Friends college.

Dan says, “As a campus minister—and a photographer—I developed a special concern for discovering how we can spread the Quaker message through image and sound, and not by text alone.”

Diane Randall

Diane Randall worships with Friends Meeting, Washington in Washington, D.C. where she serves on the Ministry and Counsel Committee. From 2011-2021, she served as General Secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) helping the organization develop its citizen advocacy, young adult programs, and direct lobbying of Congress on Friends’ priorities for peace, justice, and environmental stewardship.

Diane carries a concern for how Friends’ faith and practice is manifested in public ministry, especially in this challenging era of social and political conflict. She serves on the steering committee of the Urgent Call to the Religious Society of Friends concerning democracy in the USA as well as the advisory board of Earlham School of Religion.

Diane and her family became Friends and members of Hartford Monthly Meeting in Connecticut and New England Yearly Meeting 35 years ago, where they found spiritual and social nourishment. Now retired, Diane and her husband reside in Washington, D.C.

Fritz Weiss

Fritz Weiss worked in Vermont in public schools helping schools become better at educating students who struggled with emotional and behavioral challenges. An essential element of this work was effective communication with professionals, parents and youth. He helped launch three new schools, two as part of the team and one as a parent.

Fritz has a MA from Northeastern University and a Certificate of Advance Graduate Studies from the University of Vermont. Fritz has been active among Quakers in New England for many years.  He served as the presiding clerk of New England Yearly Meeting for four years from 2015 – 2019.  He is a member of Portland (ME) Friends Meeting.

Gary C. Farlow

Gary C. Farlow is a member of Xenia Monthly Meeting (OH), Wilmington Yearly Meeting. He has served Friends as clerk of Xenia Monthly Meeting, Miami-Centre Quarterly Meeting, Wilmington Yearly Meeting, and interim clerk of FUM. He has also served as assistant clerk and recording clerk for these same organizations and as Trustee of Wilmington Yearly Meeting, and a sometime Sunday School teacher. He has served three terms on the Quaker Hill Foundation Board, as clerk of the Friends Association for Higher Education and of the NC section of the Friends World Committee.

He is a retired Physicist having spent nearly 35 in both teaching and research at the University level and is author/coauthor of some 30 professional publications. He is currently exploring some ideas on teaching physics, working with the Quaker in Residence Program at Wilmington College (through Wilmington YM) and keeping his house repaired.

Jennifer Newman

Jennifer Newman is a writer, Quaker, theologian, activist, and currently the Executive Director at Beacon Hill Friends House — a Quaker center and intentional community in Boston, MA. Jennifer is a dynamic and experienced facilitator, program designer, and sought-after leader in the Quaker world about effective hybrid worship and event facilitation. She holds a Master of Theological Studies from Vanderbilt Divinity School, and has a background in communications. Jennifer is a member of Beacon Hill Friends Meeting, writes for Barclay Press’s Illuminate Bible study series, and is a regular volunteer with the Boston Debate League. She also serves on the board of Friends Mutual Health Group.

Lisa Motz-Storey

Lisa and her husband Paul discovered Quakers quite by accident when they were students at Iliff School of theology, two blocks from Mountain View Friends Meeting in Denver. She realized she was actually a Quaker, gave up her United Methodist ordination, and has been a committed Quaker ever since.

Lisa spent 25 years as a hospice chaplain before transitioning to working with Paul in their real estate and construction business. They have two adult children and two granddaughters. In her various roles with non-profits, she has had to learn about fundraising and event planning, and has led several exchange visits to Tanzania. She is no longer shy about asking for money for a good cause, and is excited to help raise support for Thee Quaker, as she believes this project is essential for Quakerism to survive and thrive into the future.

Trayce Peterson

Trayce Peterson received her B.A. and Masters of Divinity from Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion. Among Friends, Trayce serves on the American Friends Service Committee Nominating Committee and is a General Committee member and co-clerk of the Diversity Equity and Inclusion working group of the Friends Committee National Legislation.

She is an active member and on the League of Women Voters Greater Tucson board. Trayce co-founded SplitSeed Productions, which uses art-based interventions to inform, educate, and explore human rights issues. An avid film lover, she is a member of a team working on a film that profiles the work of four longtime Chicana feminist activists at the forefront of immigration rights organizing in Southern Arizona.