Team – Rural Migrant Ministry

Our Staff

We create hope, justice, and empowerment with farmworking and rural families in New York by building community and developing leaders through advocacy, education and the arts.

RMM has shown me what an amazing organization it is, through the way we support our people in our community and the way we work with our youth. One of my favorite parts about working with RMM is just the unity and the family-like feeling that we always have going on.

—Wilmer Jimenez, staff member

Richard Witt, Executive Director

Beth Ares, WNY Community Liaison

Lisa Baker, Volunteer Program Coordinator

Hormis Bedolla, WNY Administrative Assistant / Rural Women's Assembly Co-Coordinator

Milan Bhatt, Senior Political Advisor

Rhiannon Butchko, WNY Associate Regional Coordinator/Youth Coordinator

Andres Chamorro, Youth Arts Group Coordinator

Juana Cortes de Torres, Director of Immigrant Legal Rights Project

Angela D'Aiuto, Catskills Regional Coordinator / Youth Economic Group Coordinator

Gittel Evangelist, Director of Communications

Dazell Green, Chef/Hospitality

The Rev. Jane Soyster Gould, Theologian in Residence/ Coordinator, Summer Seminarian Fellowship Program

Elizabeth Grese, Development Director of Individual Giving

Jacqueline Thomas Harrison, Administrative Assistant

Wilmer Jimenez, Chief Program Officer

Sakima McClinton, Chief Operating Officer

Ana Mendez, Western NY Regional Coordinator

Brian O’Shaughnessy, Advocacy Consultant

Jeannine Otis, Music Coordinator

Daveed Ramesh, Finance Coordinator

Jennifer Rogers-Brown, Foundation Relations Director

Noemi Sanchez, Long Island Regional Coordinator

Tara Thibault, Overnight Camp Director

Felicia Thomas-Lowndes, Rural Women's Assembly Co-Coordinator

Sandra Valencia, Long Island Associate Regional Coordinator/Youth Coordinator

Sylvia Wysor, Communications Assistant

Board

Julie Ubinas, Board Chair

The Rev. Julie Cicora, Board Vice-Chair

The Rev. Dan Burner, Treasurer/Finance Chair

Jim Monnier, Development Committee Chair

Clayton Eichelberger, Secretary

Karen Stein, PhD, RN, Western NY Council Chair

The Rev. Karina Feliz, Hudson River/Catskills Council Chair

Annette Jimenez, Communications Chair

Sister Karen Burke, Facilities Chair

The Rev. Jerry Keucher, Board

Edgar Cerna, Board

Maria Christina Martinez, Board

Alan Lubin, Board

Jim Bopp, Board

The Rev. Ron Garner, Board

Cordelia Anthony, Youth Empowerment Committee Chair

Jane Orcutt, Board

Marshall Paris, Board

The Rev. Jon Norton, Board

Kathy Mendall, Long Island Council Chair

Jessica Harris, Board

The Rev. Joanne Utley, Board

Mary Farley, Audit Committee Chair

Christina Gullo, Board

Miguel Escobar, Education Committee Chair

Milton Pichardo, Board

Zach Blodgett, Board

Paul Gugel, Board

Margaret Sánchez, Personnel Committee Chair

Senior Fellows

A remarkable array of people serve as Senior Fellows to provide counsel to the Executive Director and the organization. Each has specifically committed to donating their time to RMM in the interest of helping us strengthen our organization.

Irene Thiel, Fellows

Harriet Sandmeier, Fellows

Librada Paz, Fellows

Joe Kovacs, Fellows

Wayne Alt, Fellows

Khuram Hussain, Fellows

Madeline Lee, Fellows

Barbara Deming, Fellows

Constance Valk, Fellows

The Rev. Canon Rob Picken, Fellows

The Rev. Michael Phillips, Fellows

Dr. John Ghertner, Fellows

Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Fellows

Laura Lecour, Fellows

Roger Markovics, Fellows

Laura Garcia, Fellows

Bernice Rivera, Fellows

Jane Konitz, Fellows