Board of Directors The Rev. Dr. Thomas F. Pike, Chair Emeritus The Rev. Aidan R. Rooney, C.M., Chair A. Robert Jaeger, Executive Director The Rev. Dennis A. Andersen Douglas B. Bauer Charles B. Casper Louis R. Cohen William F. Delvac Mary Werner DeNadai, FAIA Paul W. Edmondson The Rev. Dr. Thomas Frank Philip B. Hallen The Rev. Pieerce W. Klemmt The Rev. R. Scott Sheldon Monica Taylor Founding Board Members Nancy Arnon Agnew Holly Harrison Fiala The Rev. Thomas Phelan Stanley M. Smith Anthony C. Wood Founding Co-Directors Diane Cohen A. Robert Jaeger

Diane Cohen
(email: dcohen@sacredplaces.org)
Senior Director of Institutional Planning and Development, has spent almost two decades in the non-profit sector directing local, regional, and national community preservation efforts. She holds an MS in Historic Preservation from Columbia University. Prior to co-founding Partners for Sacred Places in 1989, she was Associate Director of the New York Landmarks Conservancy and developed its religious properties program, including providing technical and financial assistance to congregations throughout the State and overseeing the national Common Bond newsletter. This program was the recipient of a National Preservation Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Cohen is the co-author of Sacred Places at Risk (1998) and Strategies for Stewardship and Active Use of Older and Historic Religious Properties (1996).

Erin Coryell
(email: ecoryell@sacredplaces.org)
Director, Philadelphia Regional Fund for Sacred Places, is a graduate of Cornell University's Historic Preservation Planning program with a masters thesis examining the impact of parish closures in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. She has written a series of case studies on the adaptive re-use of religious buildings for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and has published articles on faith-based organizations and community development in the American Planning Association's New Planner Journal. Prior to joining Partners, she completed a New Market Tax Credit application for a faith-based organization in South Central Los Angeles.

Monica L. Davis
(email: mdavis@sacredplaces.org)
Director of Communications, Davis had five years of television news experience as an assignment editor then producer before spending one year as a promotions and recruitment VISTA with Big Brothers Big Sisters through AmeriCorps.  Following this, she served as the Community Relations Specialist with AmeriCorps*National Civilian Community Corps for four years, overseeing media relations, recruitment, and community relations for the Northeast Region of the United States.  Davis graduated from Elizabethtown College with a B.A. in Communications and a Minor in History.

Tuomi Joshua Forrest
(email: tforrest@sacredplaces.org)
Associate Director, oversees all of Partners' programming efforts. Previously, Mr. Forrest worked at the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia and as an architectural photographer. He received an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in Political Science from Haverford College.

Geoffrey Harden

(email:  gharden@sacredplaces.org)

Partners welcomes Office Manager Geoffrey Harden.  Geoffrey brings eight years of experience in nonprofit program support, administrative assistance and development.  He has worked in Philabundance’s Development department and, most recently, as the Center for Responsible Funding’s Operations Manager. Geoffrey also regularly contributes time to Books Through Bars, training and supervising volunteers, planning and implementing fundraising activities and managing their database.

A. Robert Jaeger
(email: bjaeger@sacredplaces.org)
Executive Director, holds a Master's degree in preservation planning from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. Prior to co-founding Partners for Sacred Places in 1989, Jaeger worked with the Philadelphia Historic Preservation Corporation as Senior Vice President for the Historic Religious Properties Program. He is the co-author of Sacred Places at Risk (1998) and Strategies for Stewardship and Active Use of Older and Historic Religious Properties (1996), author of Sacred Places in Transition (1994), and editor (from 1985 to 1989) of Inspired, a bi-monthly magazine with news and technical articles on religious property preservation.

William J. D. Jordan

(email:  wjordan@sacredplaces.org)

Director of Development, Philadelphia Regional Fund for Sacred Places. Will, a Philadelphia native, has been the Director of Planned Giving and Major Gifts both at Philabundance and Arcadia University as well as Director of Development at the World Affairs Council. He has served on numerous charitable and civic boards including the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Center City Resident's Association and the Vestry of the Church of The Holy Trinity Rittenhouse Square.

Rana Gidumal McNamara
(email:  rmcnamara@sacredplaces.org)
Director of Membership and Annual Giving, has been a development professional for the past eighteen years, mostly with Friends schools.  Her most recent position was as director of development for an elementary Quaker school.

Marie Malloy
(email: mmalloy@sacredplaces.org)
Director of Operations, has 25 years of administrative experience in large and small non-profits, primarily religious and educational organizations. She holds a B.S. in Accounting and a B.S. in Elementary Education.

Sarah F. Peveler
(email: speveler@sacredplaces.org)
Senior Trainer, based in Eastern North Carolina.  Ms. Peveler joined the Partners staff in 1997, bringing 10 years of field services delivery with Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. councils and 30 years of training and organization development experience to Partners. Sixteen of those years were spent with Episcopal Church institutions.  Ms. Peveler received a B.A. in Sociology from Emory University and an Education for Ministry Certificate from the University of the South School of Theology. She has also pursued graduate studies in American history and historic preservation at Middle Tennessee State University.  Since joining Partners, she directed the development of Your Sacred Places is a Community Asset Tool Kit, and served as Director of Training during New Dollars/New Partners first three years. 

Ruth Ann Rugg

(email: rarugg@sacredplaces.org)
Director, Texas Regional Office, supports the Texas Regional Office through fundraising and communications, training support, grant administration, and program development.  Ms. Rugg is a Fort Worth native with 25 years of experience with non-profit administration and communications, including positions as the director of interpretation at Museumscapes in Richardson, acting executive director and director of interpretation at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, and the program communications manager and public relations manager at the Amons Carter Museum in Fort Worth.  Ms. Rugg currently serves on the council for the Texas Association of Museums.

Elizabeth Ann Terry
(email: eterry@sacredplaces.org)
Director of Training, joins the Partners for Sacred Places staff after more than twenty years of working in the nonprofit field. She conducted hundreds of workshops for thousands of organizations through the Nonprofit Center at LaSalle University, the Center for Effective Public Policy, the Joseph Priestley District of the Unitarian Universalist Association, Free Library of Philadelphia, Grassroots Fundraising Institute and through her consulting business, NIAwork. While working for the Center for Effective Public Policy she compiled and edited Corporate Resources for Community Needs, a study of volunteering and giving patterns in the Delaware Valley. Most recently she was the Executive Director of The Other Side magazine. Ms. Terry attended Temple University and Bryn Mawr College and has been a lay minister since 1994. Ms. Terry is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and a member of the Board of Directors of Cliveden of the National Trust.

Suzanne Yowell

(email: syowell@sacredplaces.org)
Administrative Coordinator, Texas Regional Office.  Ms. Yowell is supporting the Texas Regional Office through information management, activity coordination, communication, and office administration.  Ms. Yowell is a Fort Worth native, and has 18 years of experience with her family-owned real estate investment company.