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.