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Southern Africa Partnership Committee MEMBERS
 John-Manuel Andriote
A member of St. Thomas' Parish in downtown Washington since 1997, John has reported on HIV-AIDS as a journalist and author since the late 1980s. After many years of writing about HIV-AIDS in the U.S., John began to focus on Africa while working as senior editor for Family Health International's Institute for HIV-AIDS. He has traveled in Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia. In 2006, John described his personal experience of being diagnosed HIV-positive in 2005 in a Washington Post commentary and on National Public Radio. John helps to provide reporting and other communications services for the Southern Africa Partnership Committee.
 Paul J. Barkett
A member of Washington's St. John's Church, Lafayette Square, since 1984, Paul currently serves as junior warden. He is director of housing and residence life at George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia, where he is responsible for overseeing and managing the university's 4,200-bed housing operation. Paul has traveled extensively in East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), and participated in St. John's 2004 and 2006 mission trips to South Africa. He has found St. John's partnership with the Kwasa Centre in the Diocese of the Highveld to be particularly rewarding for the parish and for himself because it is making a difference in the lives of the students at the Kwasa Center.
Annie Brown
A member of Church of the Ascension-Sligo Parish, in Silver Spring, Maryland, since 1991, Annie is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Howard University in Washington, DC. Before earning her doctorate and pursuing an academic career, Annie was a social worker and clinical director of a program for emotionally disturbed adolescents. At Howard, she teaches future social workers and conducts research on child welfare, domestic violence and the role of African-Americans in social welfare history. Annie has traveled to Africa three times since 1993, when she visited her parish’s companion parish—Holy Name, in Mlungisi, near Stutterheim, South Africa. In 2005 she spent two and a half months of her sabbatical in South Africa, Swaziland and Kenya. While there she studied the role of the church in addressing HIV-AIDS, volunteerism and the role of social work in delivering human services in South Africa. As a member of the SAPC since its 2004 inception—and its current co-chair—Annie wishes to communicate the generosity and spirit of southern Africa's people, particularly via photos and video that help depict their culture.
 Karen Chane
Like her husband, Bishop John Chane, Karen feels she belongs to each of the parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington (EDOW)—and enjoys visiting all of them. She is a member of AWE (Anglican Women's Empowerment), a group working to bring together women from all of the Anglican Communion each year for the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women. Karen also is a conference administrator for CREDO, the Episcopal Church's leadership and wellness alliance. She has traveled in Africa with the bishop, including her first visit to South Africa when the partnership between the EDOW and the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (then the Church of the Province of Southern Africa) was being formulated. In 2006 she again visited South Africa, as well as Mozambique and Swaziland. Besides visiting projects that are supported through the partnership, Karen was able to spend time with various women's groups (including mother's unions and Anglican Women's Fellowship). She says her involvement in the SAPC and the partnership comes from her belief that we can make a difference in the lives of the people that we partner with—especially the women we help to empower.
 Elizabeth ("Betsy") Finley
A member for 25 years of Saint Stephen and the Incarnation, in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of DC, Elizabeth (Betsy) Finley is a nurse practitioner who has worked in the HIV-AIDS field from the beginning of the pandemic. She served as the program director of the Washington Free Clinic in the early 1980s, and for the past 17 years has worked in clinical research through the Community Programs for Clinical Research
on AIDS (CPCRA), a program funded by the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). She has visited southern Africa as part of a training program for one of
the CPCRA's clinical research sites. Betsy is interested in the challenge of developing meaningful working partnerships across cultural, national and economic divides. Her HIV-AIDS background, and experience in organizational development in various professional and volunteer capacities, offers much to the SAPC's efforts to help achieve a functional, productive partnership between the EDOW and the province of
southern Africa.
Ian Glenday
 Kitty Hempstone
A member of Christ Church, in the Georgetown area of Washington, Kitty has served since 1994 as program officer for USSALEP (the United States-South Africa Leadership Development Program), writing proposals, running bi-national exchanges and editing newsletters. She lived in and traveled throughout Africa for 12 years with her husband, a foreign correspondent and diplomat. She brings "on the ground" knowledge of southern Africa and its issues, having visited all parts of the province. She also brings a historic perspective, having seen the countries both before and after majority rule.
Rev. Richard Kukowski
After serving for 27 years as rector of Transfiguration Church/Parish in Silver Spring, Maryland, Rev. Richard (Rich) Kukowski has made Washington National Cathedral his home parish since July 1, 2006. Before he was received into the Episcopal Church as a priest in 1975, Rich was a Roman Catholic priest in Minnesota. Africa has been a passion of his for a couple of decades. While he was its rector, Transfiguration had many members from Uganda and Nigeria, and from seven other African countries. He has traveled to Africa twice, visiting Senegal, Ghana and Ethiopia, and has lived in Uganda and Nigeria. Rich hopes his multicultural experience will help to build more bridges between the parishes and people of southern Africa and in the Diocese of Washington.
Abbott McCartney
A member of St. John's Church, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C., for more than 20 years, Abbott is an attorney for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, involved in antitrust law enforcement. St. John's has been active in the diocese's southern Africa partnership, focusing particularly on the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Springs, South Africa, and the Kwasa Centre, a community center east of Johannesburg
and adjacent to Vukuzenzelle, a nearby informal settlement. The Kwasa Centre offers an early education program together with pre-school and after-school activities and a women's resource center. Abbott joined St. John's visits to the Kwasa Centre in 2004 and 2006, and helped with others to host the visits to St. John's of their friends from the Kwasa Centre in 2005 and 2007. He looks forward to working with the SAPC to deepen and broaden our partnership with southern Africa and to share the stories and great gifts of this wonderful exchange so that all may enjoy its fruits.
Rev. Canon John Peterson
 Liane Rozzell
Liane Rozzell has been a member of St. Stephen and the Incarnation, in Washington, DC, since 1984. A video and documentary film editor currently focusing on media for museums and visitor centers, Liane first visited Africa (Ghana and Togo) while in high school. She became involved in the 1980s with anti-apartheid activities, serving on the board of TransAfrica's DC chapter. She traveled in 2006 to South Africa, Botswana and Zambia with a group led by Presbyterians who had lived and worked in South Africa. Liane felt called to stand in solidarity with the people in the region whose strengths, challenges and needs she observed firsthand. Liane brings her communications and creative problem-solving skills to the partnership, wishing to help improve awareness of southern Africa and stimulate individual and parish-level partnerships aimed at fostering solidarity.
 Jane Schubert
A member of St. Albans, a short distance from Washington National Cathedral, Jane recently retired from a career in international educational development. She has worked in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Central America and Egypt, to improve the quality of educational programs, strengthen the capacity of local people to address their community's needs, and implement solutions. Besides her extensive knowledge of the countries within the partnership, Jane offers technical expertise in education, HIV-AIDS, strategy-building, long-term planning and commitment. She is especially experienced in girls' education after working for decades to foster educational access and quality of schooling for females. She was the SAPC's original chairperson.
 Cheryl Daves Wilburn
A member of Our Saviour, in Hillandale, Maryland, Cheryl is part of the diocesan staff. Through her role as special assistant to the Bishop of Washington, Cheryl serves as the staff liaison for the Southern Africa Partnership Committee. She accompanied Bishop John Chane to South Africa in 2002, and in the past traveled in West Africa (Ghana and Nigeria). She has been interested in Africa since serving as special assistant to Bishop John Walker, who formed an early partnership between the Diocese of Washington and Cape Town, South Africa. Cheryl has been involved with the diocese's partnership with southern Africa from its inception, working with the task force that reviewed the partnership prior to the formation of the SAPC and, today, as the staff liaison to the committee.
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