Associate Tutors

Jennifer Barraclough has served on Quaker committees at local and national level for over four decades. Most recently she has clerked the Yearly Meeting trustee…

Mark Russ is a theologian, teacher and author. His books include ‘Quaker Shaped Christianity’ (2022) and ‘The Spirit of Freedom’ (2024) published by Christian Alternative,…

Ann Conway-Jones specialises in biblical interpretation and early Jewish–Christian relations. She combines up-to-date scholarship with enthusiasm for teaching adults. Ann is an Honorary Research Fellow…

Chris Skidmore is a former clerk of Yearly Meeting who has been part of the ‘Being a Quaker Clerk’ team since 2017, teaching both at…

Christine Habgood-Coote. I have been a Quaker for more than 30 years and worship with Brighton Meeting. I have held various local and national Quaker roles,…

Gilly Charters came back to Quakers in the 1980s. She has served with Eldership and Pastoral Friend teams and enjoys inreach and outreach.

Helen Chambers is an elder and pastoral friend and trainer with Quaker Life children and young people’s team.

Ivan Hutnik is a member of the QPSW conciliation group and Restoring Relations, with an interest in early Quaker history and the intersection of personal…

Jasmine Piercy is a British Quaker living in Slovenia. She is a Woodbrooke Associate Tutor and serves as an elder and facilitator for the Friends…

Jenny Tipping is a Certified Trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication and a Certified Coach in Needs-Based Coaching.  Her work with organisations and individuals focusses on diversity and inclusion, decision-making, and spirituality.  She is a Quaker, and through NVC seeks to live out the peace testimony in her personal and working life.

Joanne Klassen is the originator of Life Writing for Transformation™. Her passion is discovering the liberation, grace and guidance that can flow from our hearts…

Tracey Martin is a poet and lives in North Tyneside. She was director of the Quaker Council for European Affairs from 2022 to 2025and before…

A psychologist by training, Kate McNally worked as a university professor and as a management consultant in the US and Canada. She has represented Quakers…

Linda Craig worships at Westminster meeting and is their Treasurer, and the Area Meeting’s Registering Officer for Marriages. She is a Trustee of London Quakers…

Timothy Peat Ashworth has written on Paul the apostle and is coming towards the end of a major work on early Christian experience. As one…

Stuart Masters is a teacher and writer with a focus on the Quaker faith, its history, theology, spirituality and relationship with other traditions. For fifteen…

Rosie Carnall is a Quaker and an experienced facilitator. Her practice centres on philosophical enquiry and creative writing. She loves to get people of all…

David Tatum is a pastor and theologian in the Anabaptist tradition. He is a Ph.D. graduate from the University of Birmingham and his interests include…

Susan Groves grew up in Southern Africa and has a passion and curiosity around the theme of whiteness. She values contemplation, creativity and a playful…

Jennifer Kavanagh is a speaker on the Spirit-led life, and author of, among other books, A Little Book of Unknowing, The World is our Cloister…

Carol Harper, MA Carol is a psychological therapist, supervisor and trainer. She serves as a voluntary Quaker prison chaplain.

Denise Renshaw retired in 2006 from full time work as a Physiotherapist and started to volunteer with a small charity that ran the visitor’s centre…

Judith Baker is an experienced Registering Officer.

Judy Roles is a Member of Gloucestershire Area Meeting and first attended Quaker Meetings when she worked in London in the 1980s as a producer…

Zélie Gross is enthusiastic about enabling participants on her courses to discover their unique gifts and abilities and to broaden their experience through exposure to…

Philip Gross is committed to the principles of collaboration and disciplined playfulness in freeing the life of our words. He has worked with visual artists,…

Dana is enjoying learning about Centering Prayer through a variety of forums.  She is a teacher and poet who occasionally contributes to The Friend

Annique Seddon taught English and then trained as a counsellor at Manchester University. She set up a counselling service for staff and students in a…

Daniel Clarke Flynn is a native of San Francisco, citizen of Ireland and resident of Belgium. He worships at Westminster Meeting, London, and is a Quaker…

Marilyn Higgins is a member of Central Edinburgh Meeting and recently served on Quaker Life Central Committee. She has considerable experience of being a Woodbrooke…

Rosemary has been a Quaker all her adult life. She believes that the experience of loss and illness over the past few years has provided…

John Gray works as an organisational facilitator, coach and supervisor, and is an Associate at the University of York’s Centre for Applied Human Rights. He…

Laura J. Rediehs is Associate Professor Emerita of Philosophy at St. Lawrence University in the U.S.A. Her research interests include the philosophy of science and…

Richard Drake has been a Quaker since 2002 and has held several roles at Local and Area Meeting level including treasurer and elder. He is…

Rachel Berger spent her working life trying to mitigate the impacts of the climate and ecological crises. She continues this work near home and in…

Rosie Venner works for JustMoney Movement (justmoney.org.uk), an ecumenical Christian charity. She leads the Money Makes Change programme, which equips people to explore ethical issues…

Ann’s early career was spent teaching history and sociology. She worked in education, qualification development and training for forty-six years. Brought up in a Methodist/Socialist…

After many years working ankle-deep in wood shavings, David Curtis (he/they) has finally laid down his tools to explore roads hitherto untravelled. Musician, scholar, storyteller,…

Marion Winslow worked as a psychotherapist in the second half of her life and has long been inspired by the ‘ecopsychological’ and systemic approach to…

August is a trans man and minimalism life coach. August has a postgraduate diploma in missional leadership and is interested in the intersection between simplicity,…

Sam hosts courageous conversations, brave learning spaces and slow, sacred retreats, helping people and organisations to make sense of and live well within this time…

James Priestman was awarded a BA Honours Degree in Biblical Studies by the University of Sheffield in 1989. He has a Master’s degree in Social…

Windy is a long-time Quaker public minister with an embraced ministry of right relationship. In her 2019 minute of embrace by Sandy Spring Friends Meeting…

Lucy Parker’s mother first went to Meeting at the age of 17, and Lucy has worshipped with Friends since her teens after moving to the…

Heather is currently serving her local meeting as clerk and is a member of the children’s committee. She has worked in primary education and now…

Caitlin McGeever is a PhD candidate at George Mason University in Virginia. She studies early modern religion, gender, and family history in Early America and…

Gordon Benson has a background in co-operative and voluntary sector development and in that role he helped third sector organisations access the European Structural Funds…

Xavier L. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of the Practice of Preaching and Black Church Studies at United Theological Seminary and the pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church, both in Dayton, Ohio. He has previously taught at Earlham School of Religion and Duke Divinity School. He has published numerous articles and book chapters.

Stephen W. Angell is the Leatherock Professor of Quaker Studies at the Earlham School of Religion. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of 11 books and numerous articles and book chapters, including (with Hal Weaver and Paul Kriese) Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights (Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2011). He is a member of Oxford Meeting, part of Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting.

Rob Paton has attended Milton Keynes Meeting for 24 years, serving variously as Elder, Co-clerk and Trustee. His support for environmental causes goes back 40…

Having been brought up in a clergy home and explored the Anglican priesthood after studying German at University in Manchester, Phil was drawn to Quakers…

Sarah Donaldson is a member of Manchester & Warrington Area Meeting. She has extensive experience as a Quaker clerk and as a Quaker trustee and…

Till flo* Krapoth (pronoun-free) is a Quaker living in Germany. While training to become a Forest Therapy Guide, Till flo* also learned to facilitate Story…

Evan Welkin (Olympia Monthly Meeting-North Pacific Yearly Meeting) serves as the Executive Secretary of the Friends World Committee for Consultation-Section of the Americas after previous…

Douglas Gwyn has served among Friends variously as a peace educator for the American Friends Service Committee, as a Friends pastoral minister, as a teacher…

Gill Greenfield has been a Quaker for most of her life and has held a range of roles in local, area and yearly meeting. She…

Paulette Meier is a Quaker singer/songwriter, peace educator, and member of Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting and Community Friends Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, where her strong…

Rachel Krishnaswami is passionate about diversity and inclusion in Quaker communities. In 2023 she studied modern Quaker families with the help of a research scholarship…

Shanon is the Director of Faith for the Climate. He balanced careers in human rights advocacy, journalism, and theatre and music in his native Malaysia…

Amanda Woolley is an Elder with Totnes Quakers. She feels deeply the interconnectedness of spirituality, community, nature and activism – drawing on experience of community projects, Transition Town…

Emma Condori-Mamani is a Quaker from South America. She has been part of the Quaker community since her childhood. She enjoys teaching and preaching to…

Ailish works as a Faith in Action Coordinator for QPSW, supporting grassroots climate witness. Ailish is interested in supporting Friends to employ diverse tactics to…

Pamela Haines, an active member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, shares her passion about the earth, relationships, integrity, economics, paying attention, and repair of all…

Lindsey Markwell, a Quaker living in Suffolk, follows a faithful leading towards a simplified life. She inspires others in exploring ways of engaging with the…

Brian Blackmore is a Philadelphia-based Quaker educator, historian, activist, and community builder who currently serves as the Director of Quaker Engagement for the American Friends…

Wendy Pattinson has a keen interest in the role of religion and spirituality in society, especially in how it could help us learn to live…

Martin Urschel is a film scholar specialising in film philosophy. He has written his Doctorate thesis at the University of Oxford on Wittgenstein and Popular…

Tony and Patsy Martin have been chanting as a spiritual practice and as ministry for over 20 years. During that time, they have been leading…

Tony and Patsy Martin have been chanting as a spiritual practice and as ministry for over 20 years. During that time, they have been leading…

Lucas is a project manager and facilitator with www.movementecology.org.uk. His practice is education and (community) organising, predominantly in the climate movement. Lucas has a passion…

Imi Hills has been a member since 2018, and in that time has served on the committees of YMAC, JYM and Junior Gathering, and has…

Shumo Wang is a practitioner, minister, and scholar of the Confucian tradition. He was born and raised in China and moved to Cambridge in 2017,…

Wenjun Zou came to the UK in 2001 to study, earning an MA in Finance and Accounting. After several years working in the City of…

Tom feels most at home immersed in the elementals of the hills, mountains and coastlines of these islands. He draws great inspiration from weaving and…

Sasha Lawson-Frost became a Quaker after she found herself believing in God in her early 20s, and she currently attends Richmond and Leyburn Quaker Meeting.Sasha…

Tyna Redpath has lived in Glastonbury for 40 years, a unique and diverse community of where the Wheel of the Year is a vibrant pattern…

Cristela Martinez es miembro de la Iglesia Evangélica Amigos de El Salvador. Ella ha sido una cuaquera por convicción desde que tenia 12 años. Cristela…

Ella Asheri (she/her) is a facilitator, educator and researcher with a particular focus on psychosocial and psychospiritual approaches to social change. Her background is within…

Özge Altinkaya has been teaching NVC since 2017, working with diverse groups ranging from teachers and activists to corporate organisations and non-profits. She also mediates…

Jeannette Law is an international educator who advises students towards their best educational and career paths around the globe. An American of Chinese descent, she…

Adwoa Burnley is a Quaker who, through serving in various roles, is most passionate about creating an environment in which we can listen to that…

Katie Barron worked as a financial journalist for Investors Chronicle and The FT in the boom years of the 1990s and then began a career…

Barbara Birch is the author of Lectio Divina: Revelation and Prophecy, Quaker Quicks, by Collective Ink, and other essays in Friends Journal and Western Friend….

Stuart Murray Williams is a freelance trainer and consultant living in London. He was a founder of the Anabaptist Network and of the mission agency,…

Kenneth Cukier is an editor at The Economist and author of books on technology and society, including “Big Data,” a bestseller translated into 20 languages,…

James McCarthy has been a peace campaigner and social worker, and a Quaker for fifty years. His interest in listening was sparked by experiences of…

Sarah Woods is an award-winning writer whose work has been produced by many national and regional companies. Her dramatization of Darwin’s The Origin of Species…

I am a community development practitioner who has been successful in encouraging people to trust that life in community can be richer, deeper, wider, more…

Cherice Bock (she/her) is a Quaker in Oregon (USA). She is adjunct faculty at University of Portland and does climate policy advocacy and organizing at…

Diana Lampen has taught peace education and yoga for many years.

Revd Fr Kieron Rowley is an Anglican Priest based in SW London and previously in Somerset. Fr Kieron has received MAs in theology from Chester…

Satya Robyn is a Pure Land Buddhist minister and co-founded Bright Earth with her spouse – they ran the Bright Earth Buddhist temple in Malvern…

Oliver works as a Team Leader in the Quaker Life staff team. For the last 12 years his work has been in support of Quaker…

Stephanie Grant is a London-based Quaker whose spiritual life has been nourished by Quaker, Reiki, contemporary Buddhist and Universalist approaches. Stephanie has served on the…

Deborah is a member of Friendship Friends Meeting of Greensboro, North Carolina and is a recorded minister.  She has led retreats in the US and…

Leon was born in Guyana (ancestral lands of Amerindian tribes), studied in the lands of the Tainos (in the Caribbean) and first nation peoples in…

Alison Richards spent most of her career in adult education, working for the WEA before moving to a local authority, an awarding organisation and, finally,…

Rob Oulton is a retired GP and member of Godalming Unitarians. He has been involved in climate activism via Extinction Rebellion. He also helps convene…

Wendrie Heywood is a lifelong Quaker and proud “committee nerd”! She has served at every level of BYM’s committee structure and enjoyed it all, although…

Alistair Fuller works in the Supporting Quaker Communities team for Quakers in Britain. He manages a team of local development workers and has particular responsibility…

Sara Moon is an earth-based Jewish educator, ordained Kohenet/Hebrew Priestess and community organiser based in Dartington, Devon. She is the co-founder of Miknaf Ha’aretz, which…

Sophie Smith is a Quaker Life Team Leader for Britain Yearly Meeting.  Her work has a particular focus on spiritual nurture in Quaker communities.  Sophie…

Dr Rory Castle Jones has a PhD in History from Swansea University, where he also serves as an Associate Chaplain. He is a Unitarian &…

Rev. Sheena Gabriel is a Unitarian & Free Christian minister and served a congregation in Godalming, Surrey, for 12 years. With a background in teaching,…

Annie Dickson is a psychologist, writer and trainer with over 40 years experience in teaching communication skills and management of emotions. She is a Quaker…

Rev. Laura Dobson is minister with Chorlton Unitarians in Manchester. She completed Unitarian and Free Christian ministry training in 2021, after a career in university…

Stephen Lingwood is a Cardiff-based theologian, activist, and pioneer minister. For fourteen years he was a minister to Unitarian churches in Bolton and Cardiff. For…

Jo James is a mental health Chaplain for the NHS. I served as minister of Mill Hill Unitarian Chapel in Leeds for ten years and…

Janet Scott is a Quaker, a theologian and a teacher. She is a former clerk of Meeting for Sufferings and a Swarthmore lecturer (1980). Janet…

Solveig-Karin Erdal has been a Quaker for more than fifteen years and held various roles in Sweden Yearly Meeting, at local, national and international level….

Nancy Fee is a member of Pretoria Meeting, Southern Africa Yearly Meeting. She is clerk of her local meeting, and has clerked communications and learning…

Peter Eccles is a lifelong Quaker and is a member of Cheadle Hulme Meeting in East Cheshire Area Meeting, Britain Yearly Meeting. He has clerked…

Duncan Dwinell is a retired Music teacher and school administrator based in Kent and an active member of West Kent Area Meeting and Sevenoaks LM….

Lucy’s experience includes senior management in international development, peacebuilding, and conflict transformation, with a specific focus on the disability rights sector. She has worked with…

Lisa Cumming currently works for Quakers in Britain on peacebuilding and nonviolence with Peacebuilding in Britain and Turning the Tide East Africa. This work includes…

Katy Telling is an historian of the family, household authority, and Quakers in the seventeenth and eighteenth century American South. She received both her PhD…

Janet Harris worked as a producer/director at the BBC for many years. She has made documentaries about the Iraq war, working as an embedded documentary…

Joanna Godfrey Wood is a lifelong Friend, writer and editor, particularly led to facilitate Quaker study groups. Author of: Travelling in the Light: How Margaret…

David Heslop has been a Quaker for many years, with experience of various roles and a range of responsibilities, including facilitating in-person and online meetings….

Saskia is currently a member of Southern Marches Area Meeting, has been an attender since 1988 and in membership since 2011. Living in several European…

John Lampen brings a wealth of experience from his work in conflict zones such as Northern Ireland, former Yugoslavia, and apartheid South Africa, as well…

Carolyn Baynes is an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist and Mindfulness meditation teacher.  She was a Kodaly music teacher for 30 years and…

Seren Wildwood served as a Quaker Registering Officer for 6 years before moving into civil registration. She is now Superintendent Registrar with Gloucestershire Registration Service,…

Michael Booth is BYM’s Church Government Advisor, which includes supporting Registering Officers and advising on Quaker marriages. Michael has an interest in Quakerism around the…

Freddie Wall is a PhD Researcher at the University of Bristol looking at the practices and discourses of emotion in work on racial justice in…

Josh Selfe is the Local Development worker for London. Prior to working for Quakers in Britain, he was a church minister and remains passionate about…

Paul Ricketts, who is currently attending the Fort Wayne Friends Meeting, belongs to the Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting and the Friends General Conference. Paul is…

Laurel Townhead, Director, Quaker United Nations Office (Geneva). Laurel is a Member of South East London Area Meeting serving as Director of the Quaker United…

Toni Spencer brings 25 years of creative responses to the socio-ecological crises of our times. She invites a homecoming to land, presence & imagination as…

Nigel Thomas is a parish priest; and a Third Order Franciscan committed to inter-church and inter-faith dialogue. He has 35 years of experience working with…

Bridget Holtom (she/her)\ is the Faith in Action Lead for Quakers in Britain. She hosted a podcast called Sustenance Radio Show with interviews and grounding…

Hilary Hinds is Professor of English at Lancaster University and author of ‘George Fox and Early Quaker Culture’. She gave the George Richardson Lecture in…

Suzanne Owen is a teacher, writer, and Religious Studies scholar. Suzanne received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2007. In 2008, her PhD…

Sarah is Local Development Worker for the East Midlands region of Quakers in Britain. She has a particular heart for supporting Quaker communities with issues…

Liz Barrow is a calligrapher and calligraphy teacher. She is a Fellow of the Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society and is a Quaker. As well…

Max (they/them) is a facilitator, educator, researcher, activist, and writer. They co-lead Call of the Wild, a year-long programme in Devon which supports adults to…

Andrew Packer is a member of the Central England Quakers Responding to Racism Historical Research group. A resident of Birmingham, Andrew maintains an interest in…

Lisa Sattell is an educator-swimmer, working-playing upstream, in deep reverence of life. As a mother, grandmother, and interlocutor of ancient lands and stars, she sparks…

Lottie Child’s practices are seeking to nurture and grow the co-creation of regenerative life. She does this primarily in her roles as a learner and…

Shweta Sanjeev’s passion is to co-create regenerative solutions to address the wicked problems of our socio-ecological crisis. Her creations are always guided by the knowledge…

Emily Stewart is a systemic practitioner, transpersonal coach, and natural connector, with a deep curiosity about how people and systems grow, change, and relate. She…

Eileen Aird has worked extensively in adult and higher education and psychotherapy. This has involved consideration of both individual and social issues which either inhibit or…

Althea Anita Banda-Hansmann is a spiritual director, leadership coach and diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) consultant based in Cape Town. Shaped by life under…

Graham Wood is a restless mathematician. A PhD in mathematics from the Australian National University (a long time ago) has led him to work from…

Sally Gold is a legal historian, specialising in early modern legal history and religious dissent. She is interested in the history of legal processes and…

Frances Kreimer is the Education Director of Pendle Hill. She previously taught and directed Villanova University Law School’s Clinic for Asylum, Refugee, and Emigrant Services,…

Yael Roberts is an educator, artist, and community builder. Her teaching specialism is Hasidism (the spiritual tradition within Eastern European Judaism that emerges in the…

Dr Anna Cusack is a historian of early modern London (c.1500-1800). She holds a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, where she is an Honorary…

Gill Sewell has been a Quaker for over 40 years. She is co-editor of the Friends Quarterly journal and an ecumenical spiritual accompanier and supervisor….

Kate Fox is a stand-up poet and broadcaster and has been an attender at Monkseaton Meeting in North East England since May 2024. She’s had…

Penny Holmes was a nurse and health researcher, then became a counsellor. Her membership is with Chilterns Area Meeting and she is a Quaker Prison…