Shoshana Abrams served as FCNL’s Advocacy Teams Manager. In that role she was responsible for deepening and expanding our Advocacy Teams program, a network of hundreds of Quakers and friends lobbying to build congressional champions for peace and justice.
Shawn Adams served as FCNL’s 2024-2025 program assistant for Nuclear Disarmament and Pentagon Spending, assisting the team in advocating for necessary reductions in military spending, a renewed focus on arms control, and the long-term goal of eliminating the need for nuclear weapons.
Hadiya Afzal served as part of FCNL’s strategic advocacy team as the diaspora engagement and partnerships organizer.
Anna Aguto was the 2024-2025 Program Assistant for Sustainable Energy and Environment and Native Advocacy. She lobbied Congress to address climate change in equitable, just, and peaceful ways and to live up to its treaty responsibilities to Tribal nations.
As associate general secretary for communications and IT, Adlai Amor led FCNL’s communications team to build its presence in all media platforms, oversee the organization’s marketing, and provide a strategic direction for all communications.
As an FCNL Young Fellow, Leona works closely with Katie Breslin on young adult outreach. She assists Katie Breslin in recruiting, training, and supporting young activists all over the U.S. in an effort to galvanize grassroots activism on college campuses and in communities as a whole.
Kristen helps to engage and expand FCNL’s online community and amplify its voice through social media. In this role, she also develops long-form editorial content and serves as an in-house writing trainer for Program Assistants and other colleagues.
As FCNL’s national field organizer, Jessica was responsible for identifying and cultivating new advocates to lobby Congress and connect with FCNL’s advocacy programs.
Windila Balbone is the 2022 Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace fellow at FCNL. In this capacity, she works through the FCNL Education Fund to provide program support for the peacebuilding team and specifically for the Prevention and Protection Working Group (PPWG).
In his role as director for leadership development, Tim Barner traveled on the east coast to visit FCNL supporters – both individuals and groups – about major gifts for FCNL’s annual operations and the FCNL Campaign. Tim joined the FCNL staff in 2001 to coordinate the public phase of the “A Place Just Right” campaign to construct FCNL’s green building and he became a major gifts officer at the end of that campaign.
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