Rev. Susan P. Wilder is a member of National Capital Presbytery and has served several churches in Northern Virginia. She has worked for the Faith Forum on Middle East Policy, is on the Advisory Council of Friends of Tent of Nations — North America, and has led many study tours to Israel/Palestine. Susan has served in both ecumenical and interfaith networks as an organizer, speaker, and educator, working to raise awareness about the Israeli/Palestinian situation and to promote avenues for constructive engagement and advocacy.

Get in touch with Susan at moderator@theIPMN.org.

Rob Trawick currently serves as the General Presbyter for Albany Presbytery, and formerly served the denomination as a member of the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy. Before joining the Albany Presbytery, Rob was on the faculty of St. Thomas Aquinas College for over twenty years, teaching philosophy and religious studies. Rob has worked on PC(USA) policy issues for Israel / Palestine for a number of years, most recently helping to craft the current policy on the status of Jerusalem.

Rob can be contacted at rtrawick@albanypresbytery.org.

Dave Jones has served as our treasurer for years. He has taken Palestinian human rights overtures to his presbytery for the last six GAs and can walk you through the process if you want. Contact him at djones1948@sbcglobal.net or call him at 415-453-2079 if you would like to some wisdom on the overture process to educate your church or presbytery.

Katie wishes the need to educate and advocate for justice in Palestine/Israel didn't have to exist, but it does and she’s grateful to participate in the work as a member of IPMN. It's encouraging to be part of a team that is helping make real and positive change in the region as well as in the U.S.

Deanna Roberts (she/her) is a graduate of the Master of Arts, Theology program at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the Master of Divinity, Interreligious Engagement program at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in the City of New York, and the MS in Information and Library Sciences at University at Buffalo, State University of New York. Deanna is currently working as the Reference and Outreach Librarian at Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta. Deanna's focus for Palestinian liberation is to introduce more people to the narrative of Palestinians by bringing those voices into the collections within theological libraries in the United States.

Bob Ross is a geography professor at Point Park University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has written several articles about Palestine/Israel, mostly about the BDS movement. He is currently working on a book about the role of American churches in the South African anti-apartheid movement. He has been a member of IPMN since 2012 and served on the steering committee between 2014 and 2017. He has also served as co-moderator of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and as a member of the Fossil Free PCUSA steering committee. Bob has traveled to Palestine with several delegations, both as a participant and as a co-leader. In addition to joining movements for justice, Bob loves watching baseball, playing softball, hiking with his family, running, and watching his toddler son grow up right before his eyes. He is a member of East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but as the spouse and son of Presbyterian ministers, he shares his Sundays with multiple congregations.

Tom Twiss is a librarian emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an active member of the Pittsburgh chapter of Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) and the Pittsburgh BDS Coalition, and he has helped promote information about the concerns of Palestinian libraries within professional library organizations. He is excited to be part of the IPMN team that is doing such important and inspiring work on behalf of peace and justice.

You can contact Tom at ttwiss@pitt.edu.

The Rev. Dr. David B. Thornton is currently serving as the Transitional Pastor of the Lake View Presbyterian Church in Chicago, IL. He is also the Moderator of the Chicago Presbytery. The Chicago Presbytery has as one of its goals to be a multi-cultural, antiracist Presbytery. To this end, Rev. Thornton is a member of the Commission for Antiracism Equity. Previously he served as the Installed Pastor of the Sixth Grace Presbyterian Church of Chicago, for a little over seven years, beginning in 2014. He has been ordained a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the PC(USA) for over thirty years, having also pastored in North Carolina, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Rev. Dr. Thornton is a 1980 graduate of Morehouse College, in Atlanta, Ga. He received his M.Div. from the Divinity School, Duke University, in Durham, NC, in 1991, and his D.Min, with a concentration in Urban Ministry, from the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, in New Brunswick, NJ, in 2005.