About

Suzanne Hamilton is the Senior Vice President of Commercial Real Estate at ERIEBANK in Cleveland, Ohio. She specializes in lending, underwriting, modeling, and analyzing commercial real estate projects and ventures. 

Rochelle Stackhouse is the Senior Director of Programs at Partners for Sacred Places. Prior to coming to Partners, she served for 40 years as a pastor in the United Church of Christ, having received her MDiv. from Princeton Seminary. She has a PhD in Practical Theology from Drew University and has taught at several seminaries, most recently Yale and Lexington. 

Randal Langdon the managing partner and founder of RL Partners 1. He’s an Executive Leader in the Financial Industry with more than 30 years of sales, financial, and operational experience in directing financial advisory businesses, turnaround situations, implementing large-scale financial technology innovations and managing multi-million-dollar portfolios for organizations such as: RLPartners, CapGemini Consulting, Raymond James, and Merrill Lynch.  

He led the reorganizational effort to increase efficiency and productivity for one of the major financial institutions in the country. He also reorganized, optimized and technology-enabled the HR, corporate communications, treasury, CFO, general counsel, corporate services, marketing for the office of the chairman activities of a major Wall Street firm.  

Suzanna Caballero is a Business Banking Group Manager in the Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area. 

She’s worked UFCU, Texas Capital Bank, Financial Services, Vantage Bank Texas, Texas Certified Development Company, Inc., Wachovia, Washington Mutual, Cattlemen’s State Bank, and Interfirst Bank. Suzanna attended Texas McCombs School of Business with a degree in Management. 

Janese Murray is a member of New Covenant Community United Church of Christ, where she is married to the Pastor, Reverend Dr. Brian Murray.  She was on the Board of the Central Atlantic Conference from 2013 – 2021 and served as the board chair from 2019 – 2021.  As the board chair, Janese led the effort to update the conference mission, vision, values, and bylaws.  She was also chair of the Leadership and Governance committee.  Janese currently serves on the United Church of Christ Board and is on the Audit and Governance Committees.    

Janese Murray is the founder and president of Inclusion Impact Consulting, LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in assisting clients with developing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives that aligns with organizational goals and objectives. Janese has extensive experience in consulting and can also deliver engaging presentations as a keynote speaker, workshop leader, or small group discussion facilitator. Her workshops are interactive and encourage participants to share their perspectives and have constructive dialogue with each other.   

Before starting her practice, Janese had over 20 years of corporate experience in leading and implementing diversity and inclusion strategies.  She worked for the Exelon Corporation where she served as the Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion.  She led a team in partnering with business leaders, HR teams, and employee resource groups to increase the diversity of the workforce and create an inclusive and equitable environment. In addition to her experience in diversity and inclusion, she held various roles in employee relations, talent management and training and development.    

Janese lives in Baltimore, MD and is a graduate of Morgan State University.  She and Brian have two daughters, Rachel and Alexis.  Rachel and her husband, Nick, have blessed them with two grandchildren, Rosemary and Christopher.

Rev. Erin Gilmore is the Acting Conference Minister for the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Church of Christ. Prior to this role, she served as an Associate Conference Minister of the Rocky Mountain Conference from 2017-2023.  In her current work she seeks to support clergy and lay leadership as they aspire to create life-giving and life-affirming spaces that embody the best of what we can be as the Body of Christ. Rev. Gilmore received A Master of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion and undergraduate degree in Mathematics from St. Olaf College.  Before being called to serve in the conference, Rev. Gilmore served as a pastor of two congregations, first at Holladay United Church of Christ in Salt Lake City, UT and then at First Congregational Church, in Loveland, CO.   In addition to serving in the UCC, she is also involved in a worldwide practice of Participative Leadership or the Art of Hosting, which is an approach to leadership that seeks to address the complex challenges we face by harnessing the wisdom and self-organizing capacity of human beings.

Rev. Li’avaa Moevao is the Senior Pastor for the First Samoan Congregational Church in Huntington Beach, California.  He is a member of the National Samoan Council of Churches serving as the Youth Director.  Rev. Moevao attended Kanana Fou Theological Seminary in Pago Pago, American Samoa from 2012 to 2015, graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity.  Prior to attending KFTS, Rev, Moevao worked for the Los Angeles Police Department as a Police Officer from 1988 to 2012, retiring after 24 years.  Rev. Moevao also served in the United States Navy from 1978 until 1987.

Bob Fard serves as Vice President of Acquisitions and Development for Retirement Housing Foundation; managing the acquisition, construction, project management, forward planning and entitlements for RHF, a recognized ministry of the UCC.  His background is rooted in single-family tract, multi-family and office/retail developments.  Prior to joining RHF, Mr. Fard served in an acquisitions or forward planning role for companies such as CityView (founded by former Secretary of HUD, Henry Cisneros), Red Mountain Retail Group and Young Homes.  Mr. Fard holds a BA in Economics from University of California, Irvine and earned a Masters of Real Estate Development (MRED) from University of Southern California (USC). Mr. Fard also holds a real estate brokers’ license in California.