Our Team
Ashley M. Wilcox, Executive Director
Ashley M. Wilcox is a Quaker minister and the bestselling author of The Women’s Lectionary: Preaching the Women of the Bible throughout the Year (Westminster John Knox Press). Ashley is a graduate of Candler School of Theology, The School of the Spirit, and Willamette University College of Law. Ashley preaches, speaks, and teaches across the U.S. and internationally, and her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Geez, Working Preacher, Friends Journal, Western Friend, and numerous Quaker anthologies.
Clara Everhart, Social Media Coordinator
Clara Everhart is a graphic artist, photographer, and blogger. She has previously managed social media for George Washington's Mount Vernon, Claude Moore Colonial Farm, and author and pastor Ruth Everhart. She holds a BA in Communications from Emerson College and an MA in Arts Management from George Mason University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.
You can see more of her work here: www.everhartcreative.com.
Our Board
C. Wess Daniels
C. Wess Daniels (he/him, friend) is the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center and Quaker Studies at Guilford College. In this role, he oversees Quaker campus programming, religious and spiritual life, and Underground Railroad tours, and supports the college's overall Quaker vision and ethos. The highlight of his work is working with undergraduate students, teaching classes like Introduction to Quakerism, The Practice of Silence, Food and Faith, and Boredom as a Superpower.
Wess has authored A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing The Quaker Tradition in Participatory Culture (2015), Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation as Resistance (2019), co-edited Quaker World (2022), and a forthcoming Pendle Hill Pamphlet, God Bless the Grass: Liturgies of Imperialism, Liturgies of Resistance.
Wess is a recorded Quaker minister and member of First Friends Meeting in Greensboro, NC. He is committed to the work of regaining our capacity for attention, anti-imperial expressions of Christianity, and the building of liberatory movements that embody love and justice in the world. For fun, Wess owns and operates a small coffee roasting business, loves riding on two-wheels, and listening to music new and old on vinyl.
For more information, visit his website: http://gatheringinlight.com
Deborah Shaw
Deborah Shaw (she/her) is a 1984 graduate of Guilford College and also attended Olney Friends School in southeastern Ohio. Much of Deborah’s work life was spent at Guilford College, including 25 years of service with Friends Center, Campus Ministry, and the Quaker Leadership Scholars Program.
A lifelong Quaker and a recorded minister, Deborah has led retreats at centers in the US and in England and for gatherings of Quakers in both countries. Deborah loves accompanying others on their spiritual journeys, listening, singing, folkdancing, her two cats, and walking in the woods with her beloved husband, Sid.