The HOPE Board of Directors consists of Executive Officers elected at the HOPE Convention and Board Members appointed by member congregations. Members of the Board must belong to a HOPE member congregation.

HOPE 2023 Elected Executive Officers

Co-President: Rev. Dr. Bernice Powell Jackson, Pastor, First United Church of Tampa

Co-President: Fr. Bob Douglas, Pastor, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church

Vice-President: Rev. Dr. Anthony White, Pastor, Bible-Based Fellowship Church, Carrollwood

Recording Officer: Sherre Henley, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church

Correspondence Officer: Sandra Mitchell, Victory African Methodist Episcopal Church

Treasurer: Lois Price, First United Church of Tampa

Finance Officer: Arlene Aranha, St. James House of Prayer Episcopal Church

At-large Officer: Robert Boileau, Unitarian Universalist Church of Tampa

At-large Officer: Dr. Sheila Simmons Tribble, Bible-Based Fellowship Church, Carrollwood

At-large Officer: Courtney Rice, Palma Ceia Presbyterian Church

At-Large Officer: Bommi Theodore, St. Peter Claver Catholic Church

Appointed Board Members

Rev. Paul Buster, Macedonia M. Baptist Church

Candy Gale, Unitarian Universalist Church

Jim Clark, St. Paul Lutheran Church

Don Sherman, Brandon Christian Church

Natalie Percy, Mount Calvary 7th-Day Adventist Church