Meet the Youth Book Editorial Board
Angelina Conti (27) came to Quakerism through the youth programs of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (FGC), is a graduate of Haverford College, and worked for two years at Friends General Conference. She is a teacher at the Woolman Semester in Nevada City, California, and a freelance writer and editor. Though she is enjoying her time as an itinerant Quaker, she intends to one day put down roots (and a big garden) in her beloved Philadelphia.
Cara Curtis (22) grew up in the schools and camps of Baltimore Yearly Meeting (FGC-FUM) and considers Adelphi Monthly Meeting her spiritual home. A senior religion major at Haverford College, Cara will graduate in May 2010 and hopes to subsequently find some sort of (vaguely) gainful employment. Chocolate chip cookies are her ultimate comfort food.
C. Wess Daniels (31) is a PhD student at Fuller Theological Seminary and pastor of Camas Friends Church in Camas, WA. Wess and his wife, Emily, are originally from Ohio but love living in the Northwest and being a part of Northwest Yearly Meeting (EFCI-FUM). His academic work focuses on what he is most passionate about: issues such as the church in contemporary culture, missiology and renewal in Quaker meetings. He has spoken and written on convergent Friends many times and thinks all these cross-pollinating friendships are the subversive work of the Holy Spirit. He writes regularly on his website Gathering In Light.
Harriet Hart (22) has been active in Britain Yearly Meeting’s youth programs as both a participant and leader for many years, and has served as a writing workshop and peer group facilitator at Junior Yearly Meeting. She is a frequent contributor to The Friend, and in 2006 she participated in the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage in the Midwest of the United States. Having grown up in Yorkshire not far from the original Pendle Hill, she is now a Resident Student at the other Pendle Hill, in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.
Evelyn Jadin (25) is a member of Jamestown Friends Meeting in North Carolina Yearly Meeting (FUM), where she served as Youth Minister from 2007-2009. She is a graduate of Guilford College, the Quaker Leadership Scholars Program there, and the Baltimore Yearly Meeting camping program. She is currently Masters in Divinity student at the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana.
Sarah Katreen Hoggatt (30) lives in Salem, Oregon and is a member of Freedom Friends Church, an independent, semi-programmed, semi-pastoral, liberal and Christ-centered Friends church. A freelance writer, editor, photographer, spiritual director, and self-publisher, she has identified writing and public speaking as her passions in ministry and has developed Spirit Water Publications as an outlet for Christian writing. She is a graduate of George Fox Evangelical Seminary in Portland, Oregon and is also active with ecumenical Christian organizations in Salem and Portland. Her other interests include hiking, theatre, dancing, and singing along with the radio. You can find more of her writing and a link to her blog at www.SpiritWaterPublications.com.
John Epur Lomuria (32) is presiding clerk of Lodwar Monthly Meeting and reading clerk of the young people’s program of East Africa Yearly Meeting of Friends (North) (FUM). He is treasurer of the Turkana Friends mission of FUM, has served on FWCC nominating committees, and has written and edited several articles for Quaker Life Magazine. He is also active with the Young Quakers Christian Association, and participated in the World Gathering of Young Friends in Mombasa in 2005.
Emma Condori Mamani (31) is from La Paz, Bolivia, where she worked as a teacher in Quaker schools. She is a member of Santidad Amigos, the largest evangelical Quaker yearly meeting in Bolivia, and has worked with the Bolivian Quaker Education Organization, which supports and works with the several different yearly meetings in Bolivia. She is currently a Masters in Divinity student at the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana.
Katrina McQuail (26) was raised on an organic mixed livestock farm in rural Ontario, Canada and is a member of Kitchener Area Monthly Meeting of Canadian Yearly Meeting (FGC-FUM). She spent her formative years attending Camp NeeKauNis. She has served as an editor of the Canadian YF publication the Sporadical and has been published in a number of Quaker publications. She is an unprogrammed Friend who went to Earlham College, attends Friends General Conference Gathering and tries to serve the Quaker community widely. She attended the World Gathering of Young Friends in 2005 which opened her eyes to the wide spectrum of Quakerism.
Rachel Anne Miller (30) lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where she attends Cambridge Friends Meeting, of New England Yearly Meeting (FGC-FUM). She holds membership in Greenville Friends Meeting in North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative).