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Nominees - 2020 Board Election

Electing Three Directors
The four nominees are listed below in alphabetical order. Those elected will serve a three-year term. ​
​The Rev. Larry A. Green (Chicago)
  • Founder and President of LAGLAW (since 2012), a legal executive search firm based in Chicago with an emphasis on diversity, Larry is also a senior executive certified career counselor at Challenger Gray & Christmas. Prior to that, he was a senior account executive at Lumen Legal, and a founding partner of Winston & Green, a legal executive search firm based in Chicago committed to diversity since 1991.  He is a consultant for MIHCA (Minority in House Counsel Association). Larry has over 30 years of experience recruiting attorneys on nationwide bases. Larry started his career in 1988 at Robert Whitfield, after 16 years in the entertainment industry doing promotion and marketing for CBS and A&M Records. 
  • Larry has spoken at various diversity conferences and law schools across the country. Larry sits on several boards including Youth Guidance, Chicago Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Diocese of Chicago Deacons Council, the leadership team for the Diaconate, and Diocesan Council. He was a former trustee at Seabury Western Theological Seminary, and former President of The Diocese of Chicago Dispensary Board. He was ordained deacon in 2005 and serves at St. Chrysostom’s, Chicago.
  • To me, the Fund is there to help deacons when they have either financial or emotional issues, as well as advocate for the diaconate at large.  I bring great social and verbal skills, and a willingness to work with others to advance the diaconate. I am a team player and a dedicated leader. I work with both homeless and inner city youth that are just seeking a way to better themselves. I really want this position, as I am a very caring person. My hope is that we continue to grow not only in numbers but by gaining in diversity of more African American and Latino deacons.
The Rev. Anita Catron Miner (Utah)
  • I currently serve as a Board member of the Fund and am now seeking a second term. My desire is to serve those whom God sends my way. As an active Board participant, I believe the Fund guides me in that ministry of enabling deacons to flourish. I feel privileged to help deacons, through grants, to live a dignified, healthy and resourceful life, as their situations permit.
  • I was ordained a deacon in 2011. My background was in financial management, as a financial advisor, and I hold several board positions in the investment area. I enjoy developing workshops at All Saints Church, selecting speakers who motivate specific populations, and organizing seminars, such as “Grace-filled End-of-Life Options”. I have organizational skills as the former leader of an Episcopal Religious Community, and I continue to place value on teamwork. As treasurer of the Board of the nonprofit Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City, I focus on the dignity of life and death alike.
  • Advocacy for other people’s rights calls me to support social justice issues (i.e., reducing child homelessness) through the Utah legislative process. As a member of Junior League of Salt Lake City, I have the privilege of helping Spanish speakers explain their medical and dental situations to English medical personnel at a two-day screening event. I am grateful for my daily prayer life, which undergirds everything I attempt to do.
  • My dream is to help expand the work of the Fund for the Diaconate by offering opportunities for deacons to attend conferences relevant to their spiritual growth, wellbeing and hospitality. By teamwork, we are considering some new granting options that would serve the wider Deacon community as well. Lastly, I hope to do my part to make the Fund and the Association for Episcopal Deacons more widely known within The Episcopal Church.  I would be honored to continue serving.
Nina Pickerrell (California)
  • I am currently the Archdeacon of the Diocese of California.  My first goal was to connect deacons to deacons.  Before the pandemic I shared a meal with 18 deacons.  Since March, I have scheduled two Zoom calls a month connecting 56 deacons. We continue to address the pastoral needs of one another; ministries, retirement, death, medical disabilities, isolation, depression and financial needs.  I am in communication with Bishop Marc to keep him informed of the dedicated ministries of our deacons and their challenges.  If elected to the board, I would expand my ministry and enfold deacons in ways never thought possible.  
  • I have lived/work/ministered in two worlds, Grace Cathedral and Bayview Mission, in San Francisco. I worked at Grace for 24 years, ministering to seniors on many levels: programs, food pantry, pastoral, funerals and financial needs.  I am the Vicar of Bayview Mission, a special mission of the Diocese of California for the last 20 years, serving the most marginalized area of San Francisco.  I have been responsible for budgets from $250,000+. My motto is to find a need and fill it.  I am a people person and deal graciously with conflict resolution. 
​The Rev. Fatima Yakubu-Madus (Indianapolis) 
  • Fatima is the missioner for Community Engagement in the Diocese of Indianapolis. Her ministry includes managing an ecumenical food pantry as well as advocacy about immigration, gun violence and food insecurity.  She founded a not-for-profit organization (Wecare Missions Inc) and has managed it since 2008, fundraising and partnering with similar organizations to generate financial as well as medical support for medical missions. She has led medical missions to Africa yearly since 2007. In her diocese, she is coordinator for ERD, Asset-Based Community Development.  
  • She would bring to the Board her talents for managing a not for profit organization, grant writing, review and approval, accounting knowledge, a passion for helping people, experience as a strategy consultant for several years, in managing a budget of $300M for Discovery scientists, experience in raising funds for my foundation to support missions, as well as skills as a community organizer. Fatima was ordained in 2010 and serves at Christ Church Cathedral.
  • I think the work of the Fund is critical. As Deacons, we are called to serve those on the margin, bringing the needs of the community to our congregations, and be a voice for those without one; I think our ministry extends to assisting our fellow deacons in their time of dire need. Honestly, I cannot see a more befitting way to continue our ministry. I am hoping that the Fund for the Diaconate is sufficiently supported to ensure that those in need get assistance. I hope that the Fund’s work is well known and can be a resource for deacons.
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