Witness Board Elects New President, Directors

The board of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company [ECPC], publisher of The Witness magazine, has elected a new board president and four directors.

At a board of directors meeting held in Denver, Colo., on July 9, 2000 Stephen Duggan was elected president of ECPC. Duggan currently serves as the Treasurer of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church.

Newly elected directors include Jane Dixon, Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, Ian Douglas, Associate Professor of World Mission and Global Christianity at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. and Chester Talton, Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.

John Zinn, ECPC treasurer, was elected to a second term. Zinn is the Chief Financial Officer of the Diocese of Newark.

Other directors are: Owanah Anderson, elder, author and long-time Native American advocate; Richard A. Bower, recently retired as the Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in Syracuse, N.Y. in order to continue his work in El Salvador and the U.S. on awareness and justice in immigration issues; Louie Crew, author, founder of Integrity and Associate Professor of English at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Harlon Dalton, member of the Yale University Law School faculty; Anna Lange-Soto, Co-Vicar of El Buen Pastor in East Palo Alto and San Mateo in the Diocese of California, Mark MacDonald, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska and Native American advocate; and poet, writer, and human rights activist Mitsuye Yamada of Irvine, Calif.

For more information about The Witness' board of directors and their life commitments to social and economic justice please visit our board page.