Board of Directors

The Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Goldsboro, NC
Deborah Biesack, Treasurer, Fuquay-Varina, NC
The Rev. Dr. James E. Brown, Jacksonville, NC
Carey "D" Campbell, Greensboro, NC
James Coleman, Durham, NC
Jay Ferguson, President, Durham, NC
Tracey Horton, Secretary, Knightdale, NC
Kirsten Leloudis, Chapel Hill, NC
Bill Mefford, Washington, DC
The Rev. Stacy Rector, Nashville, TN

Board of Advisors

Julius Chambers
Jimmy Creech
Julia Elsee
The Rev. W.W. Finlator*
Stanley Hauerwas
Malcolm Ray “Tye” Hunter
Sr. Joan Jurski, O.S.F.
Rev. Jim Lewis
Pat McCoy
Stephanie Phillippi
Sr. Helen Prejean, C.S.J.
Mary Rider
The Rev. Robert Seymour
Dean Smith

*deceased

Staff

Stephen Dear, Executive Director, sdear (at) pfadp (dot) org

Stephen Dear joined People of Faith Against the Death Penalty as executive director in September 1997. He is a native of Elizabeth City, NC, with a BA in political science from the University of Richmond, and an MA in International Studies from Claremont Graduate University. Steve is a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi. For five years in the 1990s he served as executive director of the NC Rural Communities Assistance Project, an organization that works to ensure affordable access to safe drinking water and sanitary waste disposal in low-income communities. He has also worked on the staffs of the Center for the Study of Responsive Law (Ralph Nader's office in Washington, DC), the Columban Fathers Justice and Peace Office (Washington, DC), and the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy (Washington, DC).

Amanda Lattanzio, Community Organizer, amanda (at) pfadp (dot) org

Amanda Lattanzio joined PFADP as a Jesuit Volunteer (JV) in August 2007. Upon completing her year as a JV in August 2008, she was hired to continue working as a community organizer for PFADP. Originally from Canfield, Ohio, Amanda is a 2007 honors graduate of Xavier University with a BS in psychology and criminal justice. Amanda participated in an academic service learning semester in Ghana, West Africa, where she taught and supervised orphaned children and completed coursework related to Ghanaian culture and history. She also tutored and provided assistance to refugees from Sierra Leone in anticipation of her time spent in Ghana.