Our Staff

Rev. Dr. Walter Crouch

• President/CEO, Appalachia Service Project, Inc.
• Johnson City, Tennessee

Mr. John O. Pearce, Chairperson

• Partner, Ernst & Young LLP (Retired)
• Nashville, Tennessee

Mr. Mike LaRock, Vice Chair

• Vice President of Finance/Chief Financial Officer, Sysco Hampton Roads
• Virginia Beach, Virginia

Mr. Ken Landers, Secretary

• Assistant Vice President, SAIC (Retired)
• Fairfax, Virginia

Mr. Stephen Dixon, Chair of Finance Committee

• Senior Vice President/CRA Officer, Bank of Tennessee
• Johnson City, Tennessee

Rev. Dr. Brian Brown

• Senior Pastor, Woodlawn-Faith United Methodist Church
• Alexandria, Virginia

Rev. Monica Burkert-Brist

• Vicar, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
• Attorney, Wisconsin Department of Justice (Retired)
• Madison, Wisconsin

Mr. John Crandall

• Architect/Managing Director, NJ, VVA LLC (Retired)
• Mendham, New Jersey

Mr. Bill Culbertson

• Real Estate Executive, William E. Culbertson Real Estate
• Fairfax, Virginia

Mr. Charles W. “Chuck” Ellis

• Executive VP, Time Warner Cable (Retired)
• Fairfield, Connecticut

Rev. Brian Erickson

• Senior Pastor, Trinity United Methodist Church
• Homewood, Alabama

Dr. Marcia Hawkins

• President, Union College
• Barbourville, Kentucky

Mr. Michael Hodge

• General Contractor/Owner, Hodge Construction
• Iowa City, Iowa

Ms. Hattie Koher

• Director of Youth Ministry, First United Methodist Church of LaGrange
• LaGrange Park, IL

Mr. Mark McIntyre

• Partner / Co-Founder, Merchant McIntyre Associates, LLC
• Washington, District of Columbia

Ms. Emily Miller

• Assistant/Development Manager — Individual Giving, Marketing EDGE
• New York, New York

Ms. Elizabeth Moore

• Attorney / Partner, Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, PLC
• Nashville, Tennessee

Ms. Meg Robertson

• Non-Profit Consultant, Macvian Partners
• Stanley, North Carolina

Ms. Angela Struebing

• Senior Director of Marketing, Mainstreet Card Acquisition and Customer Experience, Capital One
• Arlington, Virginia

Dr. Maurlea Babb

• Family Therapist
• Wheaton, Illinois

The Rev. Rosemary Brown

• United Methodist Clergy
• Nashville, Tennessee

Rev. John “Jack” W. Gilbert, Jr.

• Major Gifts, Trust For Public Land (Retired)
• Atlanta, Georgia

The Rev. Dr. F. Stuart Gulley

• President, Woodward Academy
• Atlanta, Georgia

Mr. David Lollis

• FAHE (Retired)
• Lexington, Kentucky

The Rev. Dr. George Morris

• United Methodist Clergy (Retired)
• Peoria, Illinois

Rev. Jim Robinson

• United Methodist Clergy (Retired)
• Nashville, Tennessee

Rev Brooke Atchley, Director of Clinch Mountain District Community Ministry & Elk Garden School Community Ministries, Southwest, VA

John Wyatt, Storyteller, Greenbrier County, WV

Steve Baldwin, Director of Development for City of Johnson City, TN (Retired)

Nell Bovender, Executive Director of Rutherford Housing Partnership, Rutherford County, NC (Retired)

Chris Doll, Assistant Director of Housing Alliance, Hazard, KY

Pete Broersma, SWAP Harlan Location Coordinator, Harlan County, KY

Tom Harrison, Hancock County Mayor, Sneedville, TN

Dave Lumsden, Meadow River Valley Association, Greenbrier County, WV

Bill Bird, Facility Manager at Trade Community School, Trade, TN

Christy Laxton, Executive Director of Wyoming County Economic Development Authority, Wyoming County, WV

Bonnie MacDonald, Director of Leadership Formation & Ministry Staff, West Virginia UMC Conference, Kanawha County, WV

Bryan Toll, Director of Christ’s Hands, Harlan KY

Errol Randle, Community Outreach Specialist with the WV Department of Military Affairs and WV Department of Education, Kanawha County, WV

Ron and Jill Carson, Co-Founders of Appalachian African American Cultural Center in Pennington Gap, VA