Staff Biographies
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Steven Garber
Director
Steve Garber has a classroom among many people in many places—wherever he is and whatever he is doing, always wanting to understand more fully the integral character of faith to vocation to culture. Author of The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior (Second Ed., 2007), he writes frequently for Comment, 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 is particularly interested in the relationship of popular culture to political culture; from that appointment he 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, and the Kairos Project, and as a consultant for the Wedgwood Circle and the Murdock Trust. 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 scattered them around the world. For many years he and his family have been members of The Falls Church.
Ray Blunt
Associate Director and Fellow
Ray Blunt is the Associate Director and Senior Fellow of The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation & Culture, and brings a passion for developing "the next generation of servant leaders." After graduating from the USAF Academy, he served for 35 years in leadership and senior executive positions in the Air Force and the Department of Veterans Affairs. For the last 13 years he has focused on leadership development and succession, as well as change management initiatives in public service and non-profit organizations. Currently he is Adjunct Professor for Leadership and Business Ethics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has served as faculty and consultant for the Council for Excellence in Government, the Air Force Senior Leaders Program, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Federal Executive Institute as well as for several organizations. He is the author of Developing Leadership: Growing the Next Generation of Public Service Leaders and writes a regular column for GovLeaders.org website. He also serves as an interim Board member of the Classical Schools Foundation. He is B.J.'s husband of 45 years and the father of two grown children, and grandfather of five aspiring servant leaders.
Cary Campbell Umhau
Communications Director
Cary Umhau is Communications Director at The Washington Institute. Her roles include strengthening the connections between our various ventures, partnerships, and modes of communicating, while also writing and speaking herself.
Cary is the consummate freelancer--writing, editing, speaking, teaching and creating programs in varied venues. A common theme of her work is “normalizing brokenness while pointing to the depth of the love of Christ.” She has contributed over 100 articles and essays (and photos too) to online and print ventures, magazines and newspapers. Her speaking and teaching span topics from “Not Your Grandmother’s Bible Study: Using the Tools of Internet and iPod to Seek God” to “Facebook Demystified: Help for Terrified Parents” (a talk covered by Fox News).
Professionally and as a layperson, she has created church programs for discipleship, mentoring, and newcomer assimilation. She currently works with Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle to bring their powerful conferences to the East Coast. She has been married 27 years and lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland. She is on the vestry at St. Brendan’s in the City, an Anglican church in Washington, DC. She has three young-adult children and a new son-in-law.
Anne Taylor Cregger
Senior Fellow
Anne Taylor Cregger is Senior Fellow and ex-officio board member at The Washington Institute. She brings over 25 years of experience in leadership training and formal mentoring programs and provides tactical direction to the emerging programs and management processes at TWI. In her current work at a local consulting firm she focuses on efforts of federal and corporate organizations to transform their cultures to become based increasingly on trust, collaboration and knowledge sharing. Anne was the founding Director of the Falls Church Fellows Program, an internship program designed to serve recent college graduates who desire to deepen their alignment with God's purposes in their work, community, academic and personal lives. She maintains and promotes a keen interest in communication skills and coaching groups and individuals to best grasp how their unique gifts and experiences might further God's design for His kingdom. Anne lives in Arlington, Virginia with her husband, George Patterson, and has four grown sons.
The Rev. William R.L. Haley
Senior Fellow
Bill Haley is Rector of St. Brendans' in the City in Washington, DC. A graduate of 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, currently he lives on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley in order to create 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.
A graduate of Bethel College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Bill previously served as President of The Regeneration Forum and Publisher of Re:Generation Quarterly a magazine devoted to “community transforming culture.” He also has served on staff at the Servant Leadership School in inner-city Washington, as founding board member and then President of the Southeast DC Partners, and on the board of Samaritan Inns, a leading alcohol and drug rehab program in DC.
The author of numerous articles, Bill has also contributed a chapter to Disorganized Religion: The Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults (Cowley, 1998). He has compiled several original editions of poetry, prayers, and prose.
His interests include outdoor sports, the visual arts and music, reading, writing, travel, and long conversations over a good cup of coffee. Most of all, he’s excited about spending time with Tara and their children.
