Our Board

Ron White

Ron White is a Senior Advisor at the Humboldt Area Foundation. He is responsible for the development of the skills, knowledge and practice of civic and grassroots leadership. Currently, this work encompasses the Equity Alliance of the North Coast, which spreads the message of racial equity using Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance (LEDA) and Government Alliance for Racial Equity (GARE) as models and coaches. He also staffs HAF’s first donor circle and is board chair of True North Organizing network, a PICO affiliate in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties and adjacent tribal lands. PICO (now Faith in Action National Network) puts race, the power of people, and faith, at the center of its community organizing model.

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Dr. Rosalind Osgood

Dr. Rosalind Osgood, a Broward County native. She has earned both a Master’s and Doctoral Degree in Public Administration from Nova Southeastern University. In 2001, Dr. Osgood had the unique honor of being the first woman in the history of the New Mount Olive Baptist Church to be licensed, ordained, and positioned in the pulpit as a preacher, by the late preacher extraordinaire, Reverend Dr. Mack King Carter. In December of 2007, she earned a Master’s of Divinity Degree from New Orleans Southern Baptist Theological ATS accredited Seminary.

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Rich Wood

Richard L. Wood has served on the governing board of Faith in Action since 2016, has written about faith-based organizing for 25 years, and originally emerged as a leader through his church within the Faith in Action federation in Oakland, California. 

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Rabbi Mordechai Liebling

Secretary

Rabbi Mordechai Liebling is the Senior Advisor at POWER Interfaith, the largest faith-based community organizing group in Pennsylvania and an affiliate of the Faith in Action. He came to POWER from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College where he founded and directed the Social Justice Organizing Program for 10 years for the purpose of training the next generation of social justice rabbis.

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Chuck Mingo

Chuck is the founder of Courageous Love, an organization built to unite and ignite people for racial justice through programming that takes participants through life-changing moments of racial healing. Through his passion for justice and racial reconciliation, Chuck has transformed a congregational training into a national movement with hub cities emerging throughout the country.

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John Rutsindintwarane

Starting as a Lutheran pastor in Tanzania, my own experience as a refugee and as a witness to the aftermath of Rwanda’s genocide of 1994 led me to pursue a Master’s degree in Peace Studies at Eastern Mennonite University and then a second Master’s at Wartburg Seminary in Theology, Development and Evangelism. For the past 17 years, I’ve been leading and developing community organizing in both rural and urban Rwanda with PICO / Faith in Action. In the past three years, we’ve started to share our model and training with other communities in several nations in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa. I currently serve on the FIA BOARD.

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Jennifer Jones

Board Chair

Rev. Jennifer Jones is an ordained Baptist Minister. She currently serves as Executive Director of Shiloh's Charitable Foundation and Social Justice Minister at the Shiloh Baptist Church under the leadership of Rev. Fred Jeff Smith, Pastor. She is a graduate of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. For more than 30 years she has served as, preacher, teacher, faith-based community organizer, trainer, executive, mentor and consultant.

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Rev. Jane Soyster Gould

The Rev. Jane Soyster Gould has been Rector of St. Luke’s/ San Lucas Episcopal Church since 2017. As the congregation seeks to build beloved community, she has opportunities to use the skills she has developed in 36 years of church and community leadership. In January 2023, she was named to Mayor Rex Richardson’s Citywide Inauguration Honorary Host Committee. And she serves on the Board of the Downtown Long Beach Alliance, Co-Chairs the Compensation Committee for the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, and is a clergy leader with LA Voice and PICO California.

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Frank Lopez

Treasurer

Frank René López is an experienced facilitator, coach and consultant and owner of Lopez Reflective Leadership & Consulting. He has over 25 years working with nonprofit and community organizations. He developed an extensive capacity building practice working with hundreds of executive directors and community leaders, primarily in California, Texas and New Mexico. The current focus of his work is centered on reflective leadership. His expertise includes collective impact, social enterprise, strategic planning, nonprofit governance and taxation, leadership, board development, racial equity and fund development.

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Father Bob Fambrini

Bob is a native San Franciscan who entered the Society of Jesus in 1967 and was ordained a priest in 1979.  In the summer of 1976 just as he was beginning his final phase of formation, he participated in a community organizing internship offered by Jerry Helfrich, SJ, and John Bauman, SJ.  During several weeks Bob took on his first “parish” assignment, knocking on doors of a four-square block area in the Fruitvale area of the Oakland Hills, asking residents of their cares and concerns for the neighborhood.  During the next three years, as a theology student, he remained organizing in that area around the issues of stop signs, abandoned houses and absentee landlords.

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Father John Baumann

In 1972 Fr. John Baumann, S.J. co-founded Faith in Action, formerly known as PICO National Network, and led the organization as the Executive Director for 36 years until his transition in 2009 to the position of Director of Special Projects. Faith in Action is an international community organizing network that gives people the tools they need to fight for justice and work towards a more equitable society.  It has steadily grown to become the largest grassroots, faith-based organizing network in the United States.  The nonpartisan organization works with 1,000 religious congregations in more than 200 cities and towns through its 46 local and state federations. Fr. John has been instrumental in expanding Faith in Action organizing into international locations in Central America, Africa, and Haiti and provides ongoing support and consultation to insure their success.

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Edwin Fuller

Edwin Fuller is a Community Organizer with the Ohio Organizing Collaborative and Building Freedom Ohio. Raised in San Diego, Dayton has been his home since 1998. His professional background originated in the information technology industry, and expanded to include grassroots entrepreneurship, support engineering, real estate management, and charity fundraising.

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Ana Garcia

Ana Garcia is a member of the board of directors for Faith In Action. She brings her experiences as an immigrant, woman, DACA recipient, and mother. Ana lives to empower those in vulnerable situations by advocating for immigration justice and language access. Ana is a leader with Missouri Faith Voices where she is directly involved with the Immigration Justice and Sanctuary. She advocates for in-state tuition in Missouri and helps first-generation college students navigate the complex route to higher education. She has been involved with sheriff accountability work, most recently in the summer of 2022, when faith leaders took action to hold the National Sheriff Association accountable for oppressive practices against immigrant communities.

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