Community Members

Anna Holloway (2009-2010)
Anna M. J. Holloway is much too busy.  She is an OU graduate student, a pulpit-supply preacher for small Unitarian Universalist congregations, a candidate for ordination in the United Churches of Christ, an actress and performer, and a proud single mom.  She is also a musician, a writer and a traveler who practices Tai Ji Chuan and Wicca.  As a volunteer in prison ministry and a teacher, Anna sees the continuing need for effective and thoughtful communication.  Nothing can be achieved without listening—to the earth, to each other, to the divine source in whatever form you know her—and so Anna is delighted to be a Xenia fellow and to participate in change through dialogue.

Chris Moore (2009-2010)
Rev. Chris Moore was raised in Edmond, Oklahoma and graduated high school back when there was only one to graduate from.  He went on to receive a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Oregon and returned to Oklahoma where he worked in the I.T. industry for many years.  A recent graduate of Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Chris is ordained in the United Church of Christ and serves a new church start in Norman, cleverly named Norman United Church of Christ.  He also serves as the chair of the Justice & Witness Commission for the Kansas-Oklahoma conference of the UCC and is on the Board of Directors for the Mayflower Medical Mission in Jinotega, Nicaragua.  Chris is married to Kathy, a speech pathologist in the rehab field, and has two boys, Ian (7) and Alec (5).

Debbie Marshall-Gill (2009-2010)
Debbie Marshall-Gill grew up in southern Indiana.  She is a Certified Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Professional, a mediator and paralegal.  She has been with the Women’s Resource Center for 20 years and has served there as a women’s advocate, court advocate and Coordinator of Education.  Debbie currently serves on Coordinated Community Response Team, Domestic Violence Task Force and the Cleveland County Technical Project.  Debbie moved to Oklahoma from Colorado in 1982 and has a daughter and a grandson.

Gwen Fields (2009-2010)

Harry Wright (2009-2010)

Harry Wright was born in Providence, Rhode Island and raised in Arlington, Virginia. He studied psychology at the College of Wooster, received his Master of Theology from McCormick Theological Seminary, received his M.A. in Counseling from Eastern Michigan University, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Michigan State University. He has worked in Christian education and social work with the Presbyterian church, served as a District Executive and Investigator for the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, and worked for the Michigan Department of Mental Health as a psychologist in a psychiatric hospital. Harry is currently a part-time psychology instructor at the University of Oklahoma and an Elder of Memorial Presbyterian Church. In his free time, he enjoys riding his bike and driving his convertible.

Judy Cain (2009-2010)
Judy Cain grew up in Louisiana completing a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory and Composition at Northeast Louisiana University (now ULM) prior to moving to Norman for graduate school. Upon completion of her Master of Music degree in Music Composition she continued full-time employment at the University of Oklahoma pursuing a career in the administrative area. She has worked as Coordinator of Curricular Changes and Academic Publications for the past 17 years; in essence, an academic gate-keeper. In addition she has worked with the Cleveland County Christmas Store and keeps busy pursuing photography, travel, scrapbooking, and her cats. We can’t leave out a love of OU sports, especially women’s basketball and following major league baseball and the Texas Rangers.

Kendall Bumgarner (2009-2010)

Rob Bradshaw (2009-2010)
Rob Bradshaw is a cellist and Norman native. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Music in Performance from the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His performances have taken him many places, ranging from Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall to the Regattabar Jazz Club in Cambridge, where he appeared with the Grammy-winning Pacifica String Quartet. He is former faculty of the All Newton Music School and a former teaching fellow of the Stamford International Chamber Music Festival (UK). His love of music is based in its communicative power, and so he has offered many outreach concerts and music experiences for under-privileged youth in the greater Boston area in the hopes that it will inspire them to hear, to listen, and to speak.

Tina Kambour (2009-2010)
Tina Kambour is Assistant Chair in the Dance Department at the University of Central Oklahoma.  A native of Miami, FL, she lived in New York for 12 years before relocating to Oklahoma in 1992.   She received her MA in Dance from Teachers College, Columbia University and earned a Certified Movement Analyst Degree from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies.  Her company, Kambour Dance Theatre, was listed with the Oklahoma Arts Council Touring Roster and she taught throughout the state as an Artist-in-Residence for 10 years. She has presented her choreography on the West coast and throughout the Midwest and in June, 2004 her work Keeping Things Whole was performed for the National American College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.  From 1999-2008, she was a visiting faculty member for the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida.  Most recently she received certification in Dynamic Embodiment Somatic Movement Therapy under the direction of Martha Eddy at Moving on Center – School for Participatory Arts and Research, New York, NY.

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Charlotte Lovett (2008-2009)
Charlotte Lovett grew up in Texas, graduated from Altus High, received her BA in Spanish education at OU and completed her master’s in secondary Ed. at UCO. She taught Spanish for 32 years.  After retiring five years ago, she became a co-chair for the Cleveland County Christmas Store. She is an elder in her church where she also sings in the choir and serves on several committees. Her son, James, is a journalism major at OU.

Dick Dunkle (2008-2009)
Dick Dunkle was raised in rural Garfield County, OK near Enid. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Service Administration, a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work. He is a U.S. Army veteran, and has been a Psychiatric Hospital Administrator for nearly 30 years. He has authored many articles on such topics as for profit health care, diagnostic indicators for thought disorders, and schizophrenia. He is currently the Administrator of a 140 bed forensic facility dealing with offenders with mental health and substance abuse histories. He has traveled extensively in Southeast Asia and the Middle East on several occasions. He is a member of the Baha’i Faith.

Donna Brown (2008-2009)
Donna Brown received a BS in US History/Education from Phillips University and a MA  in US History from OU.  After teaching in Blanchard and Norman for fifteen years she was an assistant high school principal for seventeen years.  Since retirement Donna has been active in the Cleveland County Christmas Store and Bridges, a group who empowers students in family crisis to pursue education without obstacles.

Haven Tobias (2008-2009)
Haven was born in Chicago and lived there sixteen years;  she moved to Albuquerque and lived there the next ten years;  then she moved to Norman and has been here, for the most part, ever since.  Haven has been a mother for 38 years and a lawyer for 35.  Haven was raised with a Methodist minister grandfather on her father’s side and a Christian Scientist grandmother on her mother’s yawing for custody.  At the age of 28, she converted to Judaism.  A decade ago Haven discovered meditation, and is a daily practitioner and a student of Buddhism.

Kathleen Park (2008-2009)

Owen Pollard (2008-2009)

Reynolds Whalen (2008-2009)
Reynolds Whalen is a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, where he received his B.A. in Drama and African and African American Studies.  As an undergraduate, Reynolds served as the Director of the Center for International Diplomacy of the Roosevelt Institution, the nation’s first student-run public policy think tank, and Chair of the Education Committee in the St. Louis Darfur Coalition.  His current research focuses on drama as a tool for education, development, and social change in East Africa, as well as the role of media in marginalized communities.  Earlier this year, Reynolds produced a documentary in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, and will soon join Millennium Congregation and the Millennium Villages Project as a videographer in Rwanda.  Recent awards include the Forum on Education Abroad Undergraduate Research Award, and the Harriet and Dred Scott Award for the Advancement of Human Rights and Justice.