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Biographies

The Rt. Rev. David A. Álvarez, MDiv, PsyD

The Rt. Rev. David Álvarez served as Bishop of the Diocese of Puerto Rico from 1989 until his retirement in 2013. Upon his election in 1987, he served as Bishop Coadjutor, Acting Bishop of Cuba, and as a member of the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church.

During his episcopate in the Diocese of Puerto Rico, he developed Episcopal Health Services with major hospitals, home care and hospice programs, Episcopal Social Services for abused children, and Episcopal Homes for the Elderly, which has three homes across the island. During his time the diocese became financially self-sufficient and rejoined General Convention and the Church Pension Plan for clergy and lay diocesan workers.

He was elected to serve his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

Bishop Alvarez received an MDiv from the Seminario Episcopal del Caribe and a PsyD in Clinical Psychology from the Caribbean Center for Advanced Studies.

The Rev. Brendan Barnicle, DMin

The Rev. Brendan Barnicle serves as Rector of St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church in Wilsonville, Oregon. Prior to this, he was Rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Portland, Oregon, where his ministry was heavily focused on the unhoused.

Prior to ordination, he spent 20 years working in investment banking, corporate law, and financial management. For most of that time, he was managing director, leading equity research of the software industry at a major investment bank. In earlier roles, he advised on mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and private financings both as an investment banker and as a lawyer.

He has combined his financial background with his ministry in academic work focused on faith and finance. In 2021, he published Financial Anxiety, and in 2022 he published Talking Dollars & Sense: Leading Theological Discussions on Money.

He was elected to serve his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

He is pursuing a PhD in Practical Theology at Claremont School of Theology.

He received a DMin from Bexley Seabury, an MDiv from Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a ThM at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, a JD from University of Washington, and a BA from Harvard University.

The Very Rev. Samuel G. Candler

The Very Rev. Samuel G. Candler serves as Dean of the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, one of the largest parishes in The Episcopal Church. He has served on the boards of several schools and agencies, and he helped develop the formal structure of Atlanta's first interfaith group, the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta. He previously served as Dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, South Carolina.

Dean Candler is a writer and a frequent teacher and preacher in the US and the wider Anglican Communion and speaks regularly on the role of religion in matters of science and environmental sustainability.

He was elected to his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2018.

He received a BA, cum laude, from Occidental College, an MDiv, magna cum laude, from Yale University Divinity School, and a DDiv, honoris causa, from The University of the South.

The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas, PhD

The Rt. Rev. Ian T. Douglas served as the 15th Bishop Diocesan of The Episcopal Church in Connecticut from 2010 to 2022. He was the Angus Dun Professor of Mission and World Christianity at the Episcopal Divinity School, then located in Cambridge, MA, from 1989 to 2010, and served as Priest Associate at St. James’s Episcopal Church in Cambridge.

He worked as a Volunteer for Mission in the Episcopal Church of Haiti in 1983-1984. He has been a member of the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church and Chair of the Standing Commission on World Mission. He was the founder of Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation and co-founded and still serves as the Co-Convener of Bishops United Against Gun Violence. He is a member of the Constituting Group for Episcopal Church Coalition for Racial Equity and Justice.

In the Anglican Communion, Bishop Douglas has served as a member of the Anglican Consultative Council, the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion, the Design Group for the 2008 Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops, and the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism.

A sought-after speaker nationally and internationally, he is the author/editor of four books and numerous academic and popular articles on the topics of mission, the missional Church, contemporary Anglicanism, and world Christianity.

He was elected to serve his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

He studied at Middlebury College (BA), the Harvard University Graduate School of Education (EdM), and Harvard Divinity School (MDiv). He holds a PhD in missiology from Boston University.

The Rev. Amy Haynie

The Rev. Amy P. Haynie serves as Rector of Saint Nicholas’ Episcopal Church in Midland, Texas. She was ordained in the Episcopal diocese formerly known as Fort Worth and has served Texas congregations in Keller, Wichita Falls, and Fort Worth. She also served on the diocesan staff in Fort Worth.

Before entering seminary, she worked as a registered nurse in ophthalmic surgery centers and an operating room registered nurse at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.

She was elected to serve her first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

She received an MDiv from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University and a BS in Nursing from Midwestern State University.

The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, ThD

The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge is the eighth Dean and President of Seminary of the Southwest. She was appointed in 2013 after serving on the faculty as the Ernest J. Villavaso, Jr. Professor of New Testament and as Academic Dean.

Dean Kittredge has served as a member of the Steering Committee for Theological Education in the Anglican Communion, as Chair of the Board of the Episcopal Evangelism Society, and President of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars.

She is a contributor to The New Oxford Annotated Bible and the Women's Bible Commentary, and the author of Conversations with Scripture: The Gospel of John and Community and Authority: The Rhetoric of Obedience in the Pauline Tradition. She co-edited The Bible in the Public Square: Reading the Signs of the Times and Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. She is the co-editor of the Fortress Commentary on the Bible: The New Testament. She also wrote A Lot of the Way Trees Were Walking: Poems from the Gospel of Mark.

Prior to joining the seminary faculty in 1999, Dean Kittredge taught at Harvard University and the College of the Holy Cross. She serves as assisting priest at The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Austin, Texas.

Dean Kittredge was elected to serve her first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

She received her MDiv, ThM, and ThD from Harvard and a BA from Williams College.

The Rev. Gawain F. de Leeuw, DMin

The Rev. Gawain F. de Leeuw serves as Vicar and Priest-in-Charge of Holy Trinity Church Inwood in New York City. He previously served as Rector of St. Bartholomew’s in White Plains, New York, and as Vicar for the English Mission in the Cathedral in Seoul, South Korea. He is a lifelong professed member of the Order of the Ascension, an Episcopal religious order grounded in Benedictine spirituality and organization development. He is trained in organization development and group relations theory.

Currently, he is a trustee of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and serves on the real estate and finance subcommittees. He also serves with diocesan teams dedicated to creation care and economic justice. Most recently, he served on General Convention’s Task Force on the Theology of Money. He founded the exploratory task force into establishing a diocesan credit union and has served on numerous boards.

Father de Leeuw’s interest in financial institutions began in 1995 when he worked for a community development bank. Since then, he has worked in the areas of public access to capital, shareholder responsibility, and financing energy transition.

In 2019, Father de Leeuw wrote The Body of Christ in a Market Economy, a monograph that offers a theological understanding of contemporary behavioral economics through mimetic theory.

Father de Leeuw was elected to serve his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

He received a DMin in Congregational Development from Bexley Seabury and an Anglican Studies degree from the General Theological Seminary. He received an MDiv from the University of Chicago and a BA (hon) from Oberlin College.

John McCray-Goldsmith

John McCray-Goldsmith is a Managing Director at Wells Fargo, where he serves as a portfolio manager on the team managing the bank’s $40 billion municipal bond portfolio. As an institutional investor of the bank’s capital reserve under its chief investment officer, he is responsible for continuous portfolio optimization through the lenses of credit quality, return, liquidity, duration, corporate accounting treatment, tax impacts, risk management, internal audit, and compliance with federal regulatory requirements. Prior to this, John served as a public infrastructure investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Barclays.

His work supports Wells Fargo’s ESG and climate investment commitments, with a particular focus on building a portfolio of affordable housing and community development investments addressing the bank’s obligations under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). He represents the investment portfolio on the bank's CRA policy reform working group, which provided stakeholder comment to the federal agencies leading the reform process and is organizing the bank's compliance with the revised rules.

John was a Presbyterian Mission Associate from 1988 to 1995, working with Habitat for Humanity International in Bluefields, Nicaragua, and Kingston, Jamaica. He has served The Episcopal Church on the Endowment Investment Advisory Committee for the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and as a board member for the College for Bishops. A fluent Spanish speaker, he is a parishioner and church musician at the Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe congregation in the Diocese of El Camino Real, where his spouse of 35 years, the Very Rev. Julia McCray-Goldsmith, serves as Dean of Trinity Cathedral.

He was elected to serve his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

He received an MBA and a Master of City and Regional Planning degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a BA in Government from Cornell University.

Yvonne O'Neal

After a successful career as a financial consultant, Yvonne O'Neal now advocates for social justice. She serves as the Overseas Program Officer of Africa Development Interchange Network, a non-governmental organization (NGO) with special status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. She is a former member of the Advisory Council of the Anglican Communion Office at the United Nations. She is the past Vice Chair of the NGO Committee on Financing for Development and was a member of the Executive Committee of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women and the Co-chair of the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development–NY. She is also active in the NGO Committee to Stop Trafficking in Persons and New York City for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

Yvonne serves on the Board of Directors of Stand With Iraqi Christians and on the Standing Committee and the Task Force Against Human Trafficking and the Task Force on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in the Diocese of New York. She chaired the Companion Diocese Committee for nine years and the Global Mission Commission for six. She received the Society of Financial Service Professionals’ Paul S. Mills Scholarship and holds several professional designations and FINRA licenses.

Yvonne was elected to her first term on the CPF Board in 2018. She currently serves as Vice Chair of its Audit Committee and is also a member of its Finance Committee. Yvonne received an MA from the New School University and a BS from the University of Puerto Rico.

The Rt. Rev. Brian N. Prior

The Rt. Rev. Brian N. Prior serves as Vice Chair of The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees. He is the Assisting Bishop in The Episcopal Diocese of Alabama and the Assisting Bishop in The Episcopal Diocese of Olympia.

He was formerly the ninth Bishop of The Episcopal Church in Minnesota. Before becoming Bishop, he served as the founding Rector of The Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Spokane, Washington, Executive Director of Camp Cross, the Director of Education and Development for the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane, the Chaplain and Vice President for The Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies, and on the Executive Council for The Episcopal Church.

He currently serves as the Bishop in Residence and senior consultant for the Episcopal Church Foundation, on the Planning Committee for the House of Bishops, and as Chair of the Visionary Council for the Episcopal Camp and Conference Centers.

He was re-elected to his second term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

He received a DDiv and an MDiv from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and a BA from Whitworth College.

The Rt. Rev. Gregory H. Rickel

The Rt. Rev. Gregory H. Rickel is Assisting Bishop, Diocese of Southeast Florida and the eighth Bishop of the Diocese of Olympia, Resigned. He also serves as the Coordinator for the Lightline Pilgrimages North America. As Bishop, he supported The Episcopal Church in Western Washington and in its effort to live out the diocesan vision: to be an integral part of the Jesus Movement, by bearing witness to God’s redemptive reign and acting out God’s inclusive love, peace, and justice, uniquely living out this call within our specific local communities by being Locally Centered and Networked Communities, Forming Christian Leaders for Sacrament & Service.

Before this, he was the Rector of St. James’ Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas, and he also served as the Vicar of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Conway, Arkansas. He was ordained deacon in July 1996 and priest in January 1997. Before ordination to the priesthood, he was a hospital administrator in Arkansas and Texas.

He has served the wider church as a stewardship consultant for the Stewardship Office of The Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Network for Stewardship. He has served on multiple General Convention committees, including the Mission Funding Task Force, the Standing Committee on Stewardship and Development, and The Church Pension Fund, and is currently serving on the Assessment Review Task Force and the Task Force on Creation and Environmental Racism of The Episcopal Church. He is currently Chair of the American Friends of the Diocese of Jerusalem Board and serves on the Cristosal Board and the Compass Rose Society Board.

He was the Episcopal Representative to the Earth Charter Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, and was trained by Al Gore for the Climate Project. He received training from the National Organization for Victim Assistance.

He was re-elected to his second term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

He received a DMin from the University of the South, Sewanee, an MDiv from the Seminary of the Southwest, a Masters in Health Services Administration, an MA in Interpersonal and Organizational Communication, and a BA, all from the University of Arkansas. After being elected Bishop of Olympia, he was awarded an honorary DDiv from the Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas. He is married to Marti Rickel, and they have one son, Austin.

The Rt. Rev. Austin K. Rios

The Rt. Rev. Austin K. Rios served as the fifteenth Rector of Saint Paul’s Within the Walls Episcopal Church (Rome), a church of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe. He is now the Bishop for the Diocese of California.

Prior to this, he served as Diocesan Canon for Spanish-speaking ministries and Rector of La Capilla de Santa Maria in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and as Curate at Grace Episcopal Church in Asheville, North Carolina.

He was elected to his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2018.

He received an MDiv from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest and a BA in English from Davidson College.

The Hon. Linda E. Watt

Ambassador Linda Watt served as a US diplomat for 29 years. A recognized expert on Latin America, she served as Ambassador to Panama from 2002 to 2005 and as acting Ambassador to the Dominican Republic from 1997 to 1999. She also served in Nicaragua, the United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Russia, and Washington, DC.

She was the Chief Operating Officer of The Episcopal Church from 2007 to 2011, overseeing the mission program, communications, development, financial, and operations staff of The Episcopal Church Center.

Linda has been a member of the Boards of Episcopal Relief and Development, Pro Mujer (a microfinance and human development organization), and the Adventures for the Mind Foundation.

In the Diocese of Utah, she was a General Convention deputy in 2016 and a member of the Standing Committee, as well as Senior Warden of her congregation. She recently served on the Church’s Task Force on Relations with the Church in Cuba. She was a deputy from the Diocese of Western North Carolina in 2022 and is currently the convener of the Episcopal Church’s Covenant Committee with IARCA (the Anglican Church in Central America).

She was elected to her first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2018.

She received an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico and a BA in History and Spanish from Vanderbilt University. She speaks fluent Spanish.

The Very Rev. Sandye A. Wilson

The Very Rev. Sandye A. Wilson serves as the Dean of The Cathedral Church of All Saints in the Episcopal Diocese of the Virgin Islands.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, she is an Episcopal Priest who has led congregations and institutions for over four decades. She previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Saint Augustine’s University and as Rector of parishes in the Dioceses of Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Newark, and New Jersey. She has been the National President of the Union of Black Episcopalians, President of Province VI of The Episcopal Church, a long-time Member of Executive Council, and Senior Deputy to General Convention.

Dean Wilson has served as an Acting University Chaplain and Lecturer in Ethics at Vassar College, Adjunct Faculty member at Yale University Divinity School, Iliff School of Theology at the University of Denver, University of Minnesota Graduate School of Liberal Studies, and Seabury-Western Seminary Doctor of Ministry Program. She is also a trained professional executive and life coach and a consultant to various organizations and individuals on systems, conflict, transitions, moral courage, spirituality, and the transformation of society.

She was re-elected to her second term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

She was awarded an honorary DD from St. Paul’s College, Lawrenceville, Virginia, and studied at Goethe Institutes in Germany, The University of Vienna, Austria, and as a John M. Allin Fellow at the Bossey Ecumenical Institute in Switzerland.

She holds a DMin and an MBA from The Graduate Theological Foundation, an MSWSIFI from Fordham University, an MDiv from Union Theological Seminary, and a BA from Vassar College.