Ms. Pat Abrams

Executive Director, The Renaissance Collaborative, Inc. (formerly The Wabash "Y" Renaissance Corp.). Brings community-based organization perspective. Works with the formerly homeless in a comprehensive supportive housing environment. Lay leader in St. Thomas Episcopal Church.

Mr. Peter Baugher

Partner, Schopf & Weiss LLC, business litigation. Founder and President of Chicago International Dispute Resolution Association. Director, Illinois Humanities Council. Lay leader, First Congregational Church of Wilmette.

Rev. Donald Benedict

Co-Coordinator, Officer. Founder of PCG. Formerly Director of Community Renewal Society, with over 50 years experience in community development and the urban church. Key founder of the Justice Coalition of Greater Chicago.

Rev. Philip Blackwell

Senior Minister, First United Methodist Church/Chicago Temple. Has led congregations in Wilmette and Rockford and served as Program Officer for the Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Ms. Nancy Brandt

Experience in education funding, school-community development. Lay leader, St. Paul’s UCC. Volunteer Staff member, specializing in poverty and welfare, tax fairness, and financing of public education.

Ms. Laurie Breitenstein

Attorney. Lay leader, The Chicago Temple/First United Methodist Church. Chaired two major events: organizing convention and metropolitan forum on poverty and welfare.

Mr. David Bueschel

Co-founder and past President of Sheherd Bueschel & Provus, Inc., a senior level retained executive search firm. Has served seventeen years as Vice Chair of the Chicago Theological Seminary.

Mr. Edward Campbell

Life Director. Scholar, teacher, archaeologist. Professor Emeritus at McCormick Theological Seminary.

Mr. Walter G. Cornett

Officer. Venture capitalist. Member, Northfield Community Church.

Rev. Martin Deppe

Life Director. Pastor, United Methodist Church who has served throughout the Chicago metropolitan region. Civic activist with special interest in criminal justice issues.

Mr. Todd Dietterle

Serves as a Vice President of Wilhelm & Conlon Public Strategies, specializing in work with social change clients. Formerly a Vice President at the Woods Fund of Chicago. An active lay member of the Frankfort United Methodist Church.

Rev. David Frenchak

Executive Director, Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE). Progressive evangelical perspective. Uses PCG material with the churches related to SCUPE.

Dr. Franklin Gamwell

Professor of Religious Ethics, The Divinity School, The University of Chicago. Nationally prominent scholar and author. Ordained Presbyterian minister. Conceived and led the development of the Faith and Public Issues discussion series. Chairs PCG Policy Committee.

Rev. Dr. Larry Greenfield

Officer. Interim Executive Minister of the American Baptist Churches of Metro Chicago. Editor of The Common Good Network electronic magazine of PCG.

Dr. Charles B. Holmes

Life Director. Optometrist. Lay leader, First Presbyterian Church in Woodlawn. Implemented welfare signature drive in his church. Provides South Side community contacts and perspectives.

Mr. Richard Hoskins

Partner, Schiff Hardin & Waite. Chicago Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers. Senior Lecturer, Northwestern University Law School. Serves on the Standing Commission on Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church and as Chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago.

Rev. Dr. Walter Johnson

Pastor, Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church. Executive Director, AME Ministerial Alliance of Greater Chicago. Executive Director, Alliance for Community Peace. Teaching Associate, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford.

Mr. Lowell Livezey

Scholar, activist, and administrator. Lecturer, Harvard Divinity School. Principal Investigator, Religion in Urban America Program, U.I.C., funded by Lilly Endowment. Expert on civic role of voluntary organizations. Former Administrative Director, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

Rev. William Lovell

Co-Coordinator, Officer. Stated Clerk Emeritus, Presbytery of Chicago, Officer, Co-founder of PCG.

Rev. Richard Luecke

Pastorates in Chicago and Princeton NJ.  Trainer of city pastors. Professor of philosophy, Valparaiso University. Director, American Issues Forum: Chicago Committee. Has conducted studies in work, health, and the constitution of cities.  Chairs PCG Board Development Committee.

Rev. Dr. Jon McCoy

Senior pastor of St. Mark United Methodist Church in Chicago. Holds a doctorate in Community/Clinical Psychology and has served youth in Urbana and Chicago. Has served churches in Chicago and Mississippi and serves on various regional and national committees of the United Methodist Church.

Ms. Marilynn Moisio

Lay leader and community activist. Member, First Congregational United Church of Waukegan and member of the Social Action Committee. Chair of the Lake County Community Block Grant Commission; Member, PCG Field Advisory Council.

Rev. Ronald Moorman

Pastor, Luther Memorial Church. Former CEO of the Child Care Association of Illinois. Extensive knowledge of legislative and governmental processes and systems, as well as not-for-profit human service sector in Illinois.

Ms. Joan Neil

Community activist. Former board member, Illinois League of Women Voters. Member, Northfield Community Church.

Ms. Eleanor Nicholson

Adjunct faculty member, Erikson Institute. Member, First Methodist Church of Evanston.

Mr. Ken Oliver

Executive Director, Interfaith Open Communities, advocates for affordable housing. Member, The Point Church, Chicago.

Rev. Marilyn Pagán-Banks

Executive Director of the Good News Community Kitchen and Associate Pastor of the Good News Community Church in Chicago. Active leader in regional and statewide Hispanic ministries of the United Church of Christ.

Mr. Richard Peterson

Serves as General Counsel of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Active leader in local and conference church ministries of the United Church of Christ. Member of the Board of Trustees of Chicago Theological Seminary.

Mr. Howard (Nat) Piggee

Associate, Piper Rudnick LLP. Former Project 55 Fellow with Bethel New Life, Inc. Princeton Club of Chicago.

Ms. Vicki Reynolds

Secretary-Treasurer, Officer. Director of Mission, Fourth Presbyterian Church. Board member, Windy City Habitat for Humanity, Interfaith Initiative Against Gun Violence.

Ms. Michelle Saddler

Co-Chair, Officer. Executive Director, Illinois Metropolitan Investment Fund. Formerly Executive Vice President of Mid America Leadership Foundation. Board President, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.

Rev. Dr. William Samuels

Co-chair, Officer. Pastor, Commonwealth Community Church. President, Westwood Corp. Community activist and leader, specialist in youth programs.

Mr. Ronald Sampson

Marketing/Advertising Consultant. Leadership for media and public relations strategy, as well as for program planning. Served as an officer of the Board of Directors for the Community Renewal Society for many years. Recognized leadership city-wide.

Rev. Daniel Schwick

Director, Lutheran Advocacy Network of Illinois, and Assistant to the President of Lutheran Social Service of Illinois for Church and Government Relations. Ordained Lutheran pastor who has served congregations throughout Chicago for fifteen years.

Mr. Alexander Sharp

Ex officio. Executive Director, Protestants for the Common Good. Former Welfare Commissioner, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Former Vice President for Business and Finance, The University of Chicago. Master of Divinity, The University of Chicago, 1996.

Rev. Steven Shoemaker

Executive Director of University YMCA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Formerly Pastor, McKinley Presbyterian Church, (Presbyterian Campus Ministry, U. of Ill.) Nominee for Illinois Poet Laureate in 2003.

Ms. Judy Siaba

Teacher and community leader. Active with Humboldt Park Social Services Agency. Former Secretary of Global Ministries for the Northern Illinois Conference, United Methodist Church.

Mr. Robert Wilcox

Co-Chair, Officer. Member of PCG Executive and Policy Committees. Retired Attorney. Former Chair of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Founding Chair of the Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest. Former Chair of the Community Renewal Society. Member of the Board of Trustees of Window to the World Communications, Inc (WTTW and WFMT).

Mr. David Wilhelm

President, Wilhelm and Conlon. Political Consultant. Former Chair, Democratic National Committee. Board member, The Christian Century. Member, Visiting Committee, The Divinity School, The University of Chicago.

Rev. Dr. Eugene Winkler

Life Director. Retired Senior Pastor, The Chicago Temple/First United Methodist Church. Writer, social activist. Citizen Action. Public Policy Foundation.