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.
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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.
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CO-ChairS
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Rev. Burns StanfieldFourth Presbyterian Church, South Boston
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.
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.
Philip HillmaNSt. PAUL AME CHURCH, CAMBRIDGE
Philip Hillman is currently the owner/operator of PLH Enterprise which does Corporate Coaching. Prior to that, he worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as the Chief Administrative Officer of MassHousing, the state’s affordable housing bank. He also held the role of Director of the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents. Phil had a long and varied
career at the Polaroid Corporation where he served as Divisional Vice-President of Health, Safety and Environmental Affairs. His other board affiliations include Dorchester Bay, where he joined in the mid-1990s, Children Services of Roxbury and BMA/TenPoint. |
Strategy Team
The following individuals also serve on the GBIO Strategy Team:
- Barbara Berke, Temple Israel of Boston
- 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
- 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
