Center Staff

The people involved in the New Dialogue and in other Center activites bring a diversity of experience and perspective to bear in their work with the Center. A brief summary of their backgrounds and current activities illustrates the variety.

Sr. Amata Miller is a PhD economist and an Adrian Dominican nun who sits on several financial firm boards and is active in international development issues with the World Council of Churches. Until recently she headed a woman's political advocacy group Network focusing on social justice issues, and currently serves as CFO for Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan.

Dr. E.N. Weaver Jr.is a practicing neurosurgeon, member of the Heritage Foundation advisory board on health care reform, active in ethics and professions efforts, and a founder of the New Dialogue. He lives in Roanoke, Virginia.

John Feldmann is a founder of the Center, holds degrees in ethics, economics and law with fifteen years experience in the financial industry, policy consulting and law.

Julian Hartt is Senior Scholar at the Center, having taught for a number of years at Yale University and the Unversity of Virginia in ethics, philosophy and theology.

John Kelsay background is in comparative ethics specializing in Christian and Islamic ethics and just war theory. He is an editor of the Society for Christian Ethics Journal and is currently chairman of the Department of Religion at Florida State University.

Bill Wilson is educated in philosophical theology but finds his voice through literature, with Dante, C.S. Lewis, William Faulkner and Andrew Lytle among his favorite sources for stimulating the moral imagination. He teaches in the Religious Studies and Political and Social Thought Program at the University of Virginia and is an editor of the Dante Journal.

Chuck Garretson teaches religion, ethics and philosophy at Muhlenberg College in courses ranging from Plato to the Vietnam War.

Jeff Gates is a lawyer and former counsel to the Senate Finance Committee and currently a consultant to the World Bank and various corporations and governmental agencies on ownership design.

Simeon Islanmi, a professor at Wake Forest University, holds degrees in religious ethics and political theory and specializes in in economic and human rights issues in the developing countries.

New Dialogue Participants:

Dave Crocker is a philosopher and founder of the International Development Ethics Association, currently a fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. Herman Daly is an economist specializing in environmental issues, formerly of the World Bank and now of the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland. John Ericsson is an economist, recently of USAID and currently consulting with the World Bank. John recently served as an editor of the five volume "Rwanda Response" study. Elmer Johnson is a practicing attorney who was formerly an Executive Vice-President and Board member of the General Motors Corporation. He is heading a study of "Automobility and the Metropolis" for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. David Little is a Senior Scholar at the United States Institute of Peace specializing in Human Rights and religious tolerance issues. William May teaches ethics at Southern Methodist University, specializing in medical ethics, and heads the Maguire Ethics Center. Ralph Norman started the Religious Studies department at the University of Tennessee, still teaches there and serves as the editor of the journal Soundings. Ramon Romero is a philosopher educated at Florida State University who currently heads the economic development for the Guatamalan government. Cristian Parker is a sociologist living in Chile currently engaged in a study of the effects of the economic reform process in the developing world. Lynne Bowndes is a former public health nurse who is working on a study of the economic history of health insurance as a Ph.D. dissertation project at the University of Tennessee.

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