Board of Trustees
President
Tom Loughrey has been an active UU since 1975 and is active as a member of Orange Coast UU in Costa Mesa, CA. Tom has served previously as a board member of the Pacific Southwest District and as a board member and president of de Benneville Pines. Tom was also elected as the trustee to the UUA Board and served for four years as the Secretary of the UUA. He is recently retired from a career in health care administration where he most recently served as the executive director for compliance of one of the nation’s largest non-profit hospital systems. Tom has carried on some of that work as a trustee of the UUA Employee Benefits Trust. He is drawn to the work of the UUJMCA for its commitment to bring together resources, programs and opportunities for justice work to UUs throughout California. He believes we are most effective when we are working together to bring the talents, passion and commitment for justice to our communities, congregations and individuals.
Treasurer
The Rev Dr Betty Stapleford has been a UU for over 50 years. After graduation from seminary at the Claremont School of Theology in California in 1995, she served as the minister of the Conejo Valley UU Fellowship in Thousand Oaks for 12 years, being named their Minister Emerita in 2010, and the UU Church of the Verdugo Hills for 5 years. She is now the Affiliate Community Minister for Social Justice at the Universalist Unitarian Church of Santa Paula and serves on a number of non-profit boards, including the UU Justice Ministry of California.
Managing Director
Antoinette Scully is currently a Membership and Community Engagement Specialist for the Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation, an associate member organization of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). Their staff position encompasses building programming and creating relationships with members and local organizations to further justice work centering on women. In addition to their day job, this Los Angeles-based writer, activist, and educator is dedicated to creating spaces built on the principles of inclusivity, equal access, education, and building a better community. They speak publicly on social justice, race, and literary activism, all rooted in their Unitarian Universalist faith.
Member At Large
Anna Wagner is the Development Director at GreenFaith. She has over two decades of activist experience on environmental campaigns. Previously, she served as the Director of Network Engagement at the Laudato Si Movement and before that she worked with Greenpeace for 12 years as a Senior National Organizer, where she activated thousands of Greenpeace supporters on environmental campaigns. She believes faith organizing is essential to effective social change and lives in San Jose, California with her family.
Member At Large
Michael Sallwasser is an active member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Long Beach since 1987. He has served his congregation by chairing multiple committees and as Trustee and President of the Board of Trustees. Michael has served the Pacific Southwest District on committees and the board, including as Vice President and President of the District. He has served our association as a member and co-chair of the Journey Toward Wholeness Transformation Committee, on the Coordinating Committee of the Accessibility and Inclusion Ministry, and a UUA Trustee. He is retired
from a 40-year career in software development, married and has three adult children. Michael has always served our UU movement at every level with a social justice focus both implicitly and explicitly. That remains true with his service as a Trustee of UUJMCA.