Board of Directors
Unless otherwise noted, all board members serve on Boards of Directors
for the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund and the Peace Tax Foundation.
David Bassett, M.D., Honorary Chair
As one of the originators of the U.S. Peace Tax Fund Bill and a founding
member of the Campaign, David is our Honorary Chair. He is an active
Quaker, war tax resister, and physician (now retired). David has spent
his professional career in cardiology, working toward the prevention
of cardiovascular disease.
Statement of conscience.
Jeffrey Bird, Treasurer
Jeff is an engineer who lives and works in New Jersey. He is a member
of Summit Friends Meeting and represents New York Yearly Meeting on the
Campaign board. He is an active war tax resister. Jeff also serves on
the Executive Committee of the American Friends Service Committee, New
York Metropolitan Region.
Statement of conscience.
William Galvin
Bill was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and has been
a conscientious objector to paying for war since 1983. Bill is a former
staff member of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors and
currently works with the Center on Conscience & War, where their
core mission is to extend and defend the rights of conscientious objectors.
This includes educating about conscientious objection and related issues,
helping COs build files to document their claims, working to prevent
the draft from returning and staying on top of draft issues, as well
as being part of the GI Rights Hotline and helping soldiers. He has been
on the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship's National Committee since the early
1970s. He is a roller coaster connoisseur.
Statement of conscience.
Mariana Garrettson
Mark Harrison
Robert Macfarlane, Vice Chair
Robert is the Board representative from Episcopal Peace Fellowship.
A transplant from Iowa, he and Maria reside in Fairfax, Virginia. As
a pastor who studied and prepared teachings on the biblical text, he
early realized the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus reveals a God
who does not give us permission to do violence to each other.
Lisa Marchal
Kimberly McDowell, Secretary
Kim is the pastor of the University Park Church of the Brethren. She
and her husband Hooker (a health sciences librarian at Howard University)
are the parents of two daughters. They live in Hyattsville, MD.
J.E. McNeil, Chair
The Executive Director of the Center on Conscience & War, J.E. has
been a practicing attorney for over twenty-five years, representing military
tax resistors and demonstrators. Before becoming the Executive Director,
J.E. worked with CCW/NISBCO on its legal committee, where she contributed
to amicus briefs and represented conscientious objectors in court. J.E.
has also has supported the Peace Tax Fund in Quaker circles.
Steve Ratzlaff
Steve is a long-time convinced pacifist. He is the pastor at Mennonite
Community Church in Fresno, California. He and his wife Lynette have
been war tax resistors in some form or another for 25 years, and this
aspect of his life is very critical to him. Their witness has been influenced
by the two years which they spent doing Mennonite service in Bolivia
in the mid-seventies.
Jordan Taylor
Rick Woodard
Statement of conscience.
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