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Jim Levinson, who serves as convener of Compassionate Brattleboro, was, earlier, a founding member of the social action-oriented Brattleboro Area Interfaith Initiative. Jim
resides in Marlboro where he and his family have lived for the past 20 years. He served as Spiritual Leader of Jewish congregations in New England for 25 years, including the Brattleboro Area Jewish Community (BAJC) from 2001 to 2009. He and his wife Louise were among the organizers of the 1995 interfaith commemoration in Poland marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Levinson, also actively involved in international development in Asia and Africa for the past 50 years, has been a faculty member at MIT, Tufts University and the SIT Graduate Institute. One of his current projects is playing through the complete keyboard music of Bach. |
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Lindsey Britt is a resident of Brattleboro with a background in nonprofit administration/grant writing/fundraising, regional planning, vegan baking (including providing over 1,000 servings of baked goods to area food pantries), and needle arts. She loves to travel, especially to French-speaking Canada, and is in the process of hiking all the 4000 Footers in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, a project that begin when she was seven years old. Lindsey is active in animal rights and climate justice movements, particularly with EQAT in Philadelphia, and is currently involved with foster care system reform and as a volunteer with Meals on Wheels.
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The Reverend Dr. Scott Everett Couper studied International Relations in Washington, D.C. (B.A.), Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Chicago Theological Seminary (M.Div.) and History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Ph.D.).
Scott is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ (U.C.C.). with standing in the Vermont Conference (Windham-Union Association).
Scott currently resides in Brattleboro, Vermont and is minister at the Centre Congregational Church, United Church of Christ.
Immediately before arriving in the United States from the Republic of South Africa (RSA) in 2018, Scott was a Senior Honorary Lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics in Pietermaritzburg (RSA), the Academic Coordinator of the School for International Training’s (Brattleboro, Vermont, USA) Social and Political Transformation Programme in Durban (RSA), Adjunct Lecturer at the Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary in Pietermaritzburg (RSA), resident historian at Inanda Seminary in Inanda (RSA), and Mission Co-Worker for Global Ministries in Indianapolis, Indiana and Cleveland, Ohio (USA and RSA). Scott also served on the board of Cluster Publications (Pietermaritzburg, RSA).
Scott is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ (U.C.C.). with standing in the Vermont Conference (Windham-Union Association).
Scott currently resides in Brattleboro, Vermont and is minister at the Centre Congregational Church, United Church of Christ.
Immediately before arriving in the United States from the Republic of South Africa (RSA) in 2018, Scott was a Senior Honorary Lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s School of Religion, Philosophy, and Classics in Pietermaritzburg (RSA), the Academic Coordinator of the School for International Training’s (Brattleboro, Vermont, USA) Social and Political Transformation Programme in Durban (RSA), Adjunct Lecturer at the Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary in Pietermaritzburg (RSA), resident historian at Inanda Seminary in Inanda (RSA), and Mission Co-Worker for Global Ministries in Indianapolis, Indiana and Cleveland, Ohio (USA and RSA). Scott also served on the board of Cluster Publications (Pietermaritzburg, RSA).
Additional Members: Charles Laurel, Miriam Dror, Marie Proctor, Sarah Bowen, Howard Burrows