“An incredible thank you to our 25 board members, for their passion for this work. Many of them are founders, and they show up over and over.
Thank you to our clergy, who sustain us and remind us to stay grounded in our faith, and to move forward with love, grace, and mercy.
However, without the dedication of the Tri-Faith staff, we couldn’t move the mountains that
I believe we moved in 2020.
Individually, Erik is new to our team and has made an incredible contribution in leadership, and in facilities, operation, and outreach to the community. I am grateful. Sierra, she gets stuff done. It takes so many times for you all to see a message before you show up, and Sierra makes sure that you see the message two or three or four times in your inbox, and she communicates with the partner congregations to make sure that we are unifying our message, and that we are amplifying their messages. Sierra, you do beautiful work, and we’re excited to see your storytelling projects form.
Jeremy, I have called you a “walking encyclopedia.” The depth of knowledge that you have, and your passion for religion and inclusion, matters every day in our work. You are helping us to be our best selves, and I am grateful. Amanda truly has a love and passion for religion and community, for making the intersection between race and religion something that we learn from, to help us hear each other in brave and safe spaces. She is helping us create curriculum that I know will connect us all in the coming years in ways beyond our wildest imagination. Lachelle, our newest member, is helping to quantify what we are doing so we can report back to you and tell you that we are making a measurable difference in the world.
And I’m going to do something that I hope we will all do — I am going to thank myself, too, because I have spent countless hours and passion for 15 years for this project.
I am grateful to all of you for the trust that you put in me to be able to lead this initiative. My job is to do everything that I want to do, that the board has enabled me to do, and that no one else wants to do — and, you know what, even that part has been a pleasure and so much fun.”
– Wendy Goldberg, Executive Director