Phil Jones, Chair
Church of the Brethren, Washington, DC

Phil Jones comes to us from the nation's capital where he is director of the Church of the Brethren Witness/Washington Office. This office is a ministry of the COB General Board. In ecumenical and collegial efforts he works to advocate for and effect change in US policy in regards to issues of peace and justice from a Church of the Brethren faith based perspective. Phil has represented the COB in this office for almost four years. Previous experiences that bring him to this office include a life-time of commitment and witness to the teachings of Jesus as peacemaker, active community grassroots organizing, consultation work with People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, pastoral ministry experience, prison chaplaincy, and student director of the Peace Studies program at Bethany Theological Seminary. Phil is a graduate of North Carolina State University and holds a Masters of Divinity degree from Bethany Theological Seminary with an emphasis in peace studies. He serves on the board of directors for Churches for Middle East Peace, Center on Conscience and War, Religions for Peace, and Washington Office on Africa. In addition he is co-chair of the Decade to Overcome Violence USA program.

E. James Lieberman, Vice Chair
Jewish Peace Fellowship, Washington, DC

E. James (Jim) Lieberman represents the Jewish Peace Fellowship on the CCW board as of 2007. He is Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University School of Medicine. Moved by pacifist ideas after summer travel through Europe in 1954 (at 19), he applied for CO status on graduating medical school but it was never acted on and he served in the US Public Health Service at NIMH (1963-70), taking part in demonstrations against Polaris Submarines (Groton) and Germ Warfare (Ft. Detrick). He was influenced by reading Gandhi and by meeting Milton Mayer, Rabbi Abraham Cronbach, Ammon Hennacy, Bradford Lyttle, Murray Polner and other activists. He is the author of Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank, and is a former president of Esperanto-USA. Hobbies include playing the cello, chess, and swimming. Married to Carol, he has two children, two step-children and five grandchildren.

Theodore Sitther, Secretary
At Large, Silver Spring, MD

Theo Sitther, former CCW staff member (2003-2006), joined the board in January of 2008. Theo works as a Legislative Associate at the Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Washington Office, where he works on issues related to U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, Asia and global economic justice. Theo is passionate about the rights of conscientious objectors, specifically those who are serving in the military. He also serves on the board of the Washington, DC Anabaptist Peace Center as the MCC Washington Office representative.

Tom Hoopes, Treasurer
Phildelphia Yearly Meeting,Valley Forge, PA

Tom Hoopes is a teacher at George School, a Quaker school near Philadelphia.  He began this position after several years as the the Director of Education for the Philadelphia-area Quaker community (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting). In that capacity, he served as the primary liaison from the Quakers to the 32 Friends schools in the region, as well as a central resource person for programs and issues affecting the many Quakers who teach and send their children to public schools in our region.  His background includes serving as a high school Assistant Principal, a children's summer camp Director and a high school teacher. As a college student, Tom was active in his school's "Draft Registration Information Service" through the university chaplain's office. He makes his home near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two young sons.

Dallas Wisehaupt
At Large, Dunmore, PA

Dallas Wisehaupt is a Senior Systems Administrator at the University of Scranton in Scranton, PA. He is also a former officer of the United States Army. While living and travelling extensively outside of the US, Dallas observed the world as a single community and came to the realization that he could no longer participate in acts of war. With the assistance of the CCW he was discharged from the army in July 2007. He currently lives in Dunmore, PA, with his wife and twin son and daughter.

Dan Mach
At Large, Washington, DC

Daniel Mach is the Director of Litigation in the ACLU's Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. He litigates and coordinates a wide range of religious liberty cases nationwide, and often writes, teaches, and speaks publicly on religious freedom issues. Prior to his work at the ACLU, Mr. Mach was a partner in the Washington, DC office of Jenner & Block, where he specialized in First Amendment law.

Joan Broadfield
At Large, Philadelphia, PA

Joan Broadfield grew up in a Quaker circle, migrated briefly to the Episcopal Church, and is part of a religiously eclectic larger family circle. She and her spouse of 41 years joined Friends in the 1970s. It was a time when life was handing the couple some tough circumstances, including an unexpected draft of Ed into the army due to the war in Vietnam. It was this circumstance—forced military service in a family that included a child (in 1968)—that convinced Joan such service was not in the best interests of the country, of the people, and of world peace. A committed pacifist, active and trained in mediation and bias awareness, Joan works as staff for Quakers on the broad spectrum of peace issues. She has a degree in teaching music, serves on Friends General Conference central committee, and is active in her Meeting and community.

Taj Johnson
At Large, Camp Springs, MD

Thomas ‘Taj’ Johnson is Director of SkyValley Tai Ji, VisionQuest Travel and JB Productions, LLC. He also currently serves as the Program Chair for the MLK Jr. Commemoration Committee of Bowie, Inc. In that latter capacity, he strives within that organization to bring fresh perspective and relevancy to the committee’s goals of celebrating diversity and promoting the entirety of Dr. Martin Luther King’s message and his concept of ‘The Beloved Community’. Taj’s work with Sky Valley Tai Ji within the Washington DC area and VisionQuest Travel in Negril, Jamaica provides an opportunity for participants to experience Ignatian Spirituality as practiced within Chinese Neijia (Internal Art Studies) and Traditional African Culture; objectively cultivate harmony within 5 major areas of human consciousness: Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Energetic and Spiritual.

An outgrowth of his foundational work with Dr. Nianzu and Peggy Li, Dr. Lee Guo Tin and his advancing Taoist work with Wudang Master Xiao Ling Liu; Taj has integrated these Eastern Traditions with the hermeneutic tradition as practiced both within his Afri/Carribean lineage and Chinese Neijia. In addition to his formal study of Economics, Physics and Music (BA 1981) at the University of Vermont; his postgraduate work includes Comparative Religious Studies with Dr.Yosef ben-Jochanan, Political History with Professor John Henrik Clarke, Trends in Cultural Development with Runoko Rashidi and Wayne Chandler and Melanin research with Carol Barnes.

While nurturing deep roots within the greater meditative community, Taj is an advocate of using meditation sessions to focus the mind, fine-tune energies in preparation for dynamic and effective actions; nurturing respect of nature and others as a world community while focusing on the vastness of nature and spiritual/cultural diversity.

As a Healer and Unifier, Taj seeks to dialog within communities that historically maintain what W.E.B. DuBois identified as “double consciousness” with regard to American patriotism; to hopefully move closer to the realization of “The Beloved Community” of Josiah Royce and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Taj lives in Prince George’s County Maryland with his wife of 16 years, Jeannie and their cat, Ariel.