MARY JANE AMICK

Mary Jane Amick is a lifetime Kentuckian, born in Louisville and a long time Lexingtonian.  A BSN graduate of the University of Kentucky, she has practiced in neonatal and pediatric ICUs and in Public Health, providing follow up patient care and parent education for previously critically ill infants and children. This led her to found and operate her own medical case management business, Amick & Associates. She also brings extensive experience with Reading Camp, the pioneering program of the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington that helped inspire the work of Love Must Act. She served as Camp Nurse at a number of Kentucky’s Reading Camps, and, in 2008, she became a part of the founding of the Holy Cross Reading Camp in Makhanda, South Africa. She has served as Camp Nurse in this literacy initiative for severely underprivileged township children ever since. South Africa is now her second home, with a large and loving adopted family living in several parts of the country.

 THE REV. MICHAEL C. FEDEWA

Michael is the recently retired rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, MI, where he served since 1992.  Michael has been involved in the wider work of the Diocese of Western Michigan in a variety of capacities including the diocese’s Standing Committee and Diocesan Council. He continues to serve on the diocese’s Commission on Ministry. Michael has also served on various ecumenical and interfaith boards in the Grand Rapids area. Most recently he served on the Board of Directors for Family Promise, a ministry that provides shelter to families facing the crisis of homelessness. He is looking forward to volunteering in Gospel ministries. He attended the General Theological Seminary, where he earned his certificate in Anglican Studies.  Mike and his wife Linda continue to live in Grand Rapids.

PAUL W. LAYMON

Paul W. Laymon is a recently retired lawyer living in Washington, D.C.  Before moving to Washington, he served as a military lawyer in the United States Army. He graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law and Furman University. He is a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Washington. 

KAY COLLIER McLAUGHLIN, PhD

Kay is a leadership consultant and author who holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology. Her most recent book is Talking Together: Getting Beyond Polarization Through Civil Dialogue.  She is the former Officer for Leadership Development, Transitions and Communications for the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington, KY. Currently, she works as the principal at Transformative Leadership Consulting and Talking Together Seminars, building on her years as teacher and teacher trainer in the worldwide Talent Education movement.  Her career as consultant, trainer, lecturer, and keynote speaker has taken her to Japan, China, Australia, Germany, Russia, England, and Canada, as well as across the United States. She lives with her master woodworker husband on a small lake in Kentucky, where she maintains a studio for her work in collage. She is the proud mother of two and the doting grandmother of three.

Sandra Ferguson McPhee

Sandra Ferguson McPhee is a well-known leader in The Episcopal Church. She currently serves as a trustee of the Church Pension Group and chairs the Bexley-Seabury Board of Trustees. She has served as President of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Chicago and a member of her parish vestry. She has also served on the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council, and has been a deputy to numerous General Conventions. Much of her experience has been in international mission, including as a member of the Standing Commission on World Mission, the Friends of Cuttington University in Liberia (which she chaired), the Liberia Covenant committee, and the American Committee for KEEP (Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project). Her accomplishments include helping design the Everyone Everywhere global mission conference and the Mutual Responsibility for Mission Conference, which celebrated the work of the Anglican provinces in the Americas. She is an alumna of Smith College and Boston University Law School. She practiced law in Evanston, IL before her recent retirement to Maine.    

tHE REV. mARGARET sHANKS

The Reverend Margaret Shanks is an Episcopal priest. Now retired, she was most recently the rector of the Church of the Resurrection in Nicholasville, KY.  She earned her Master of Divinity degree from the Lexington Theological Seminary and also did graduate work at Seabury Seminary in Chicago. Her undergraduate work was done at the University of Kentucky. Prior to full-time work in the church, Margaret had a career in the field of environmental protection and was employed as a policy analyst for the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky. 

Keith Walters

Keith Walters recently retired as professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics at Portland State University in Portland OR. Before coming to PSU, he taught in the Department of English at the Ohio State University and the Departments of Linguistics and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Much of his research and volunteer work focuses on language and identity in the Arab world and language issues in educational contexts; he is also the co-author of three college-level textbooks. A former Peace Corps volunteer and Fulbrighter, he has taught English to speakers of other languages in Tunisia, Guinea, and the U.S., and trained teachers in these countries as well as Morocco, Egypt, the West Bank, and Vietnam. A member of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, he has been active in teaching or co-teaching adult-education classes.  He has also served on the diocesan Socially Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. He lives in Portland with his husband Jonathan Tamez.