Staff
Project Coordinator
Mark Bowman has been involved in the development of LGBT-RAN since
its founding in 2001. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Boston
University School of Theology. He first became active in Affirmation:
United Methodists for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns in
the late 1970s. He was instrumental in the formation of the Reconciling
Congregation Program (United Methodist) and the magazine Open Hands and
headed these programs for fifteen years. He played a key leadership role
in initiating several cooperative ventures in the ecumenical
"Welcoming Church" Movement, including the historic, massive
Witness Our Welcome (WOW) Conference in 2000. He was also one of the
original members of the National Religious Leaders Roundtable.
Archivist
Doris Malkmus worked for three years as project archivist at
the Iowa Women's Archives while completing a Ph.D. in women's history at
the University of Iowa. She began working part-time with LGBT-RAN in
February 2003. During this time, she completed a graduate degree in
archives and records management at the University of Michigan School of
Information. Doris is an accomplished carpenter and former nurse who is
looking forward to her "final career" as an archivist.