Leadership

GBIO is governed by a Strategy Team (our board of directors) with two elected Co-Chairs.  Leaders from our member organizations are elected to serve three-year terms on the Strategy Team. 

The Strategy Team is responsible for setting the direction of GBIO, based on issues raised and ratified by the membership. The Strategy Team authorizes new issue campaigns, reviews the progress of current campaigns, attends to financial and structural aspects of the organization and oversees the hiring of a Lead Organizer.

Chair

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Rev. Burns Stanfield

Fourth Presbyterian Church, ​South Boston

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Reverend Stanfield has been the pastor of Fourth Presbyterian Church in South Boston since 1991. At Fourth Church, he transformed a diminished urban congregation into a vital ministry with a strong community presence. His work with the church has been recognized by Princeton, Harvard, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and various community groups. 

Rev. Stanfield has taught at Harvard Divinity School and Andover-Newton Theological Seminary and has presented at churches, schools and conferences across the country. Rev. Stanfield has also been a leader with the South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation and other neighborhood coalitions.  He is a musician with several albums to his credit, and is the father of three young adults who make him feel very proud and very blessed. ​

Strategy Team

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The following individuals also serve on the GBIO Strategy Team:

• Barbara Berke, Temple Israel of Boston
  
• Rev. Katie Cole, Hartford Street Presbyterian Church, Natick
  
• Alan Epstein, Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, Newton
  
• Sis. Dr. Ethlyn Davis Fuller, St. Paul AME Church, Cambridge
  
• Fran Godine, Temple Israel of Boston
  
• Dru Greenwood, Temple Israel of Boston
  
• Rev. Dr. Ray Hammond, Bethel AME Church, Jamaica Plain
  
• Marcia Hams, First Parish in Cambridge
  
• Philip Hillman, St. Paul AME Church, Cambridge
  
• Phillip Jones, First Church in Cambridge
  
• Dr. David Landis, Temple Emunah Social Justice Community, Lexington
  
• Eric Leslie, Union Capital Boston
  
• Rev. Carrington Moore, Bethel AME Church, Jamaica Plain
  
• Khalid Mustafa, Masjid Al-Qur’an, Dorchester
  
• Faith Perry, Church of the Covenant, Boston
  
• Sajid Shahriar, Greater Boston Labor Leader
  
• Jumaada A-K. H. Smith, St. Katharine Drexel Parish, Roxbury
  
• Rabbi Toba Spitzer, Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, Newton
  
• Bishnu Tamang, Union Capital Boston
  
• Rev. Steve Watson, Reservoir Church, North Cambridge
  
• Beverly Williams, Bethel AME Church, ​Jamaica Plain