Executive Director
Dr. Steven Garber
Steven Garber has a classroom among many people in many places. As the Director of the Washington Institute, the heart of his own calling is that people understand the integral character of faith, vocation, and culture. Author of The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior (Second Ed., 2007), he writes frequently for Comment and Critique, and in addition was a contributor to the volumes Faith Goes to Work: Reflections From the Marketplace, and Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalogue, as well as to the Mars Hill Audio journal, “Tacit Knowing, Truthful Knowing: The Life and Work of Michael Polanyi.” For many years he taught on Capitol Hill in the American Studies Program, and then became the Scholar-in-Residence for the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. He serves as a board member for Ransom Fellowship, the Blood:Water Mission, A Rocha, and the Telos Project, and as a consultant for the Wedgwood Circle, the Murdock Trust, the Demdaco Corporation and the Mars Corporation. A native of the great valleys of Colorado and California, he is married to Meg and is the father of five children whose own callings have them scattered around the world.
Director of Formation
Rev. Bill Haley
Bill Haley is Associate Rector at The Falls Church in Northern Virginia and also serves part-time as the Director of Formation at the Washington Institute to direct and lend insight into the integral relationship between spiritual formation and faithfulness in the broader world (e.g. vocational formation). A graduate of Bethel College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, he is an Anglican priest and trained spiritual director. His life has been profoundly shaped by many international experiences, particularly in places of deep brokenness in the world, and he has devoted many years to ministering in urban contexts. With his wife Tara (a nurse practitioner) and four kids, he lives at Corhaven, a farm in the Shenandoah Valley, offered as a space for others to find God on retreat. Bill’s life has been fired by the phrase “in Christ all things hold together,” so he is particularly keen on walking with others as they seek to apply their vocation to the way the world actually is and the way it one day will be. Bill previously served as President of The Regeneration Forum and Publisher of Re:Generation Quarterly a magazine devoted to “community transforming culture”, and is the founding Rector of St. Brendan’s in the City in Washington DC. He has also served on staff at the Servant Leadership School in inner-city Washington, was a founding board member and then President of the Southeast DC Partners, and is currently a trustee of the Anglican Relief and Development Fund and a board member of a Christian leadership training center in South Sudan.
The author of numerous articles, Bill has also contributed a chapter to Disorganized Religion: The Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults. He has compiled several original editions of poetry, prayers, and prose. His interests include outdoor sports, the visual arts and music, reading, writing, and long conversations over a good cup of coffee. Most of all, he’s excited about spending time with Tara and their children.
Director of Programs & Development
Kate Harris
Kate first came to Washington from Colorado as a Falls Church Fellow in 2002 where she studied under Dr. Garber and worked for Chuck Colson and The Wilberforce Forum on several human rights policy initiatives. She then spent several years working on Capitol Hill for U.S. Senate leadership and helped to lead the vocational ministry Faith & Law. In 2007 she left Capitol Hill to help start The Wedgwood Circle, an angel investment network to fund art that lifts up the good, true and beautiful. In 2008 her family moved to England for her husband to pursue his graduate degree where, when not busy caring for their young children, Kate worked part-time to lead business development for a boutique project management firm. She also worked on a handful of special projects for the global consulting firm Oxford Analytica. After returning to the DC area, Kate joined The Washington Institute staff as a writer in 2010 and began directing its development in 2011. Kate graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a B.S. in Journalism and B.A in Political Science. She is wife to a very good man and mother to their three young children.
Program Coordinator
Jay Bilsborrow
A Coldwater, Michigan native, Jameson earned his B.A. in English and History from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia while also a member of the men’s varsity cross country and track teams and Intervarsity Christian Fellowship. Previously he has worked for such prestigious entities as then Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, the historic Tibbits Opera House in his home town, and most recently the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He is excited to contribute to the mission of The Washington Institute in furthering an understanding of vocation.