The Beatitudes Society Staff

The Rev. Anne Sutherland Howard

Executive Director

Anne is Executive Director of The Beatitudes Society, a new organization building a national network for progressive Christian seminarians. Before coming to The Beatitudes Society in September, 2006, she served as Associate Rector at a church well-known for its prophetic social justice teaching, preaching and action, Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, California. A seasoned and accomplished preacher, she is now Preacher-in-Residence at Trinity, and is the author of "Claiming the Beatitudes: Nine Stories from a New Generation" (Alban, 2009). Prior to ordination, she was a newspaper reporter and later Executive Director of the Interfaith Center to Reverse the Arms Race at All Saints Church in Pasadena, CA. Since ordination in 1988, she has served as Associate and Interim Rector at All Saints by-the-Sea, in Santa Barbara and as Canon to the Ordinary for Bishop Fred Borsch in the Diocese of Los Angeles, and also as Director of Mt. Calvary Invites, an adult education program of Holy Cross Monastery in Santa Barbara. She is a graduate of Episcopal Divinity School and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a member of the Board of Faith in Public Life. She also serves on the Advisory Board of God Complex Radio and the Advisory Board of the Capps Center for Ethics, Religion and Public Life at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A native Minnesotan, she travels widely from her home in Santa Barbara, California where she lives with her husband Randy. Their son Benjamin is doing his surgical Residency at the University of California, San Francisco. Email Anne

Betty Segui Wenzel

Development Coordinator

Betty brings her financial management skills to The Beatitudes Society via 10 years in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley and Seattle. She is a graduate of the University of California at Davis. She now lives in Santa Barbara with her husband, Pete, and their two daughters, Grace and Kate. She is actively involved in the justice, hospitality and the youth ministries at Trinity Episcopal Church. Betty spends her free time volunteering at her daughters' elementary school, leading a Girl Scout troop, and being active with her family. Email Betty