Board of Directors

L to R: Michelle Sherman, Abbot John Klassen, Anne Marie Biermaier, Samantha Lioi, Phil Waite, Joetta Handrich Schlabach, Rachel Reesor-Taylor, Gilbert Detillieux, Mary Lehman Yoder, Matthew Rissler.

Bridgefolk Board and Officers

  • Rev. Samantha Lioi – Co-chair
    Spiritual director, writer, retreat leader, former Mennonite pastor
    Buffalo, New York
  • Ann Marie Biermaier, OSB – Co-chair
    Director of Studium, a program for visiting scholars
    Saint Benedict’s Monastery
    St. Joseph, Minnesota
  • Gilbert Detillieux
    Systems Analyst at the University of Manitoba
    Active conversation partner in Mennonite-Catholic dialogue
    Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • Denys Janiga, OSB
    Program Development Assistant, CSB and SJU Environmental Studies
    Saint John’s Abbey
    Collegeville, Minnesota
  • Jennifer Otto
    Associate Professor of Religious Studies
    University of Lethbridge
  • Rachel Reesor-Taylor
    Lecturer in Religious Studies at Université de Saint-Boniface
    Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • Michelle Sherman
    Pax Christi USA, the National Catholic Peace Movement
    Spiritual director and retreat presenter
    Dayton, Ohio
  • Rev. Elizabeth Soto Albrecht
    First Latina to be appointed Moderator of Mennonite Church USA
    Retired pastor and faculty member at Lancaster Theological Seminary
    Lancaster, Pennsylvania
  • Rev. Phil Waite
    Pastoral team leader
    College Mennonite Church
    Goshen, Indiana

Officers

  • Rev. Joetta Handrich Schlabach – Executive Director
    Retired Mennonite pastor
    Grand Marais, Michigan & Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala
  • Rev. Mary Lehman Yoder – Secretary
    Spiritual director and Pastor Emerita, Assembly Mennonite Church
    Lover of green and growing things
    Goshen, Indiana
  • Matthew Rissler –Treasurer
    Data Engineer at Bound software company
    Dubuque, Iowa

Professor of Theology,

Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto