Board of Managers | Association of Faith-Based Organizations

Leadership

AFBO is a Virginia limited liability corporation directed by a Board of Managers. Those managers are:

Carl H. Esbeck is the Isabelle Wade and Paul C. Lyda Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law. A former Director of the Justice Department's Task Force for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, Professor Esbeck serves on the Advisory Council of the Pew Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Religious Liberties Practice Group of the Federalist Society. He also serves as legal counsel to the Office of Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals. Professor Esbeck has testified before the United States Congress regarding Charitable Choice (available at 16 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 567 (2002)), and is the author of, among many other publications on constitutional issues, The Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations to Staff On a Religious Basis, Center for Public Justice (Sept, 2004) with Stanley W. Carlson-Thies & Ronald J. Sider; and two chapters in Religious Organizations in the United States, A Study of Identity, Liberty, and the Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2004) ("Regulation of Religious Organizations via Governmental Financial Assistance" and "Charitable Choice and the Critics").

Thomas C. Berg is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public Policy at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Professor Berg is the author of West Publishing Company's The State and Religion in a Nutshell (West Group 2d ed. 2004) and co-authored (with now-Judge Michael McConnell and John Garvey) Religion and the Constitution (Aspen Publishing 2002) and (with James Serritella, Cole Durham, Edward Gaffney, and Craig Mousin) Religious Organizations in the United States: A Study of Identity, Liberty and the Law (2005). Professor Berg has been chair of the Law and Religion Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and is a member of religious liberty advisory committees for the National Council of Churches, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the DePaul University Center for Church-State Studies, and the Christian Legal Society.

Stuart Lark is a partner in the Colorado Springs office of Holme, Roberts & Owen, where he practices in the areas of nonprofit and religious organizations and health care. A former Legal Counsel to the Center for Law and Religious Freedom of the Christian Legal Society (2002), Mr. Lark has published articles and given presentations on a range of issues including employment issues, government funding and tax-exempt financing for religious organizations. A graduate of the University of Chicago Law School (1996), Mr. Lark also holds degrees from Stanford University (M.S., 1985) and Purdue University (B.S., with distinction, 1984). He is a member of the Colorado Bar, as well as the bars of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.