Task Force Members

Per Anderson, Ph.D. (Task Force Co-chair)
Professor, Department of Religion
Chair, Division for Global Education
Concordia College
Moorhead, Minnesota

Jerald DeWitt, Ph.D.
Director, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

Leland Glenna, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology
College of Agricultural Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania

Juliette Kahle
Ph.D. candidate in Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Rev. Judith A. Klusman
Assistant to the Bishop
North Carolina Synod, ELCA
Salisbury, North Carolina

Robert Roger Lebel, Ph.D.
Medical Geneticist and Ethicist
Greenwood Genetic Center
Greenwood, South Carolina

Frank Maenpa, Ph.D.
Vice President for Quality and Technical Services
USB Corporation
Cleveland, Ohio

Rev. Yvonne I. Marshall
Pastor, Christ and Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
Sedalia, Missouri

Susan Martyn
Stoepler Professor of Law and Values
University of Toledo College of Law
University of Toledo College of Medicine
Toledo, Ohio

Rev. Robin D. Mattison, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Paul Nelson, Ph.D.
Professor of Religion
Wittenberg University
Springfield, Ohio

Linden Olson
Farmer and Pork Producer
Worthington, Minnesota

Rev. Richard J. Perry, Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Church and Society and Urban Ministry
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Ted Peters, Ph.D.
Professor of Systematic Theology
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Berkeley, California

Carmelo Santos
Ph.D. Candidate in Systematic Theology
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Richmond, Virginia

Rev. Steven Ullestad
Bishop, Northeastern Iowa Synod
Waverly, Iowa

Aana Marie Vigen, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Theology
Loyola University
Chicago, Illinois

Janet L. Williams (Task Force Co-chair)
Genetics Counselor
Intermountain Clinical Genetics Institute
Salt Lake City, Utah

ELCA Governance Body Advisors

Sandra Schlesinger
Midland, MI
ELCA Church Council

Jadon Berry
Ellensburg, WA
Church in Society Program Committee

ELCA Church in Society Studies Staff

Rev. Ronald W. Duty, PhD.
Assistant Director for Studies

Rev. Roger A. Willer
Director for Studies

Staff Consultants

Belletech Deressa
Director for International Development and Disaster Response
Global Mission unit
Chicago, Illinois

Mary Minette
Director for Environmental Education and Advocacy
ELCA Washington Office
Church in Society unit
Washington, DC

Patricia Zerega
Director for Corporate Social Responsibility
Church in Society unit
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania