Maureen Linneman, co-chair, has been a member of Jubilee! since 1990, and volunteers with the Earth Team and the Jubilee! Singers. She is a mother and grandmother and a semi-retired Mental Health Therapist. Maureen comes with an understanding of the work of boards and is passionate about the flourishing of Jubilee!’s new future. She has served on four area boards and an Episcopal Vestry. Maureen knows our community’s challenges as an emerging new Jubilee! and will come to the board as a listener and a creative thinker who sees Jubilee! as a heart centered, interconnected and sustainable community.

Lin Orndorf, co-chair, is originally from the Philadelphia area, and fell in love with Asheville and WNC while completing a B.A. in Environmental Studies at Warren Wilson College in the mid-1980s, and returned to the Blue Ridge Mountains in February of 1999. Lin has had lots of different jobs, including environmental technician, research assistant, environmental educator, bookseller, store manager, magazine production manager, writer, editor and more, sometimes several jobs at one time. In 2010, Lin earned an A.A.S. in Sustainability Technologies from A-B Tech before going to Lenoir-Rhyne University for an M.S. in Sustainability Studies. Lin has been an Adjunct Instructor at A-B Tech since 2016 teaching courses in sustainability, energy, building science, and academic skills. Lin previously served on the WWC Alumni Board and the A-B Tech Board of Trustees as the Student Government Association President, and has been active with Girl Scouts, most recently as a troop leader. Lin is also the coordinator of Climate Café Asheville, and has a passion for the planet, people, and all the other living things on Earth. Lin enjoys drinking coffee, riding trains, reading, writing, birdwatching, walking, “yardening” and spending time with her spouse, Porscha, and their dogs, cats, family and friends. Lin has been a Jubilant since 2002, and currently serves on Jubilee!'s Celebration Task Force recruiting and coordinating volunteers to participate in Sunday Celebrations. She is a member of the Discernment Group and Care & Compassion Team. She wants to serve the Jubilee! community at this time of transition because she believes that if we are to be successful with our current community-led model, it is important to step up and lean into the work of carrying on and transforming.

John Mattox, secretary, grew up in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the son of a physician, who was also the son of a physician who served the Homestake Gold Mine. He has a PhD from Stanford University in Astrophysics.  He worked in gamma-ray astronomy. After a postdoctoral appointment in Germany, he was with NASA in Greenbelt, MD for a decade. In 2003, he became a professor within the UNC system, working in astronomy, astrophysics, sustainability, and science education. From 2004 until 2012, he managed the Planetarium and the Student Observatory at Fayetteville State University and participated in faculty governance, serving for two years as the Chair of the Faculty Senate. For two years, he served as the President of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fayetteville, and gave numerous sermons. In 2011, he began an extensive study of the “Universe Story” writings of Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme. In 2012, he participated in a week long “Great Turning” retreat with Joanna Macy in Greensboro, NC. This lead to an affiliation with the Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain, and an interest to Asheville. He began attending Jubilee! services in 2013, and has attended regularly since 2021, when he retired from teaching and bought a farm in Candler, which he is now renovating (acting as his own general contractor, doing design, wiring, plumbing, etc.). He calls this project the Big Cove Sanctuary, where he is pioneering permaculture and resilience. He also serves on the Community Advisory Board of Blue Ridge Public Radio, volunteers with the Center for Conscious Living & Dying and the Repair Cafe at the Asheville Tool Library, and is an associate with the Warren Wilson Applied Climate Studies Program. He remains an avid swimmer, hiker, mountain biker, kayaker and mountain climber. He has two adult sons, a civil engineer and a molecular biologist, and two young grandchildren in eastern NC. He sings bass with the Jubilee! Singers.

Beth Pape, member, has been advocating for others since kindergarten and has a 70-year-old report card to prove it. She believes that love is an active verb: Loving is giving to and doing for others. Her adult contributions have included various childcare, early child intervention, women’s support, and diversity in employment board memberships. She stopped leading the AVL Parkinson’s Support Group a year ago to serve the WNC Sierra Club on its executive committee and as their publicist. As part of earning certification as a Blue Ridge Naturalist, she founded a WNC Sierra Club for children in youth programs, in which she is participating this summer. Beth is a team co-captain for Precinct 71.1 of the Buncombe Democrats, an active member of Together Women Rise and treasurer for her HOA. Her involvement with Jubilee! began last summer and has included the Hospitality team, the Holiday Decorating team, the Movers and Shakers, and the new Pathways team. You may recognize her as Jubilee!’s “Badge Lady.” “I felt loved the minute I walked into my first Jubilee! Sunday Celebration. The music, the ministers and the spirit of the people and place captivated me,” she said. “Ever since, I have been trying to find ways to return that love.”

Sage Seeley, member, moved to Asheville in May of 2023 after living in Florida Keys for the past 15 years, some of which was on her sail boat. She raised her children in mountains of NY, and was being called to the mountains once more. Jubilee! and Asheville quickly became her heart place. She says the love and compassion of the Jubilee! community captured her heart immediately. She currently serves as co-leader of Jubilee!’s Care & Compassion Team, and is part of the Hospitality and Welcome Teams. Helping others has been her nature since a very young girl. She’s a retired oncology nurse and massage therapist, and has held leadership positions in pediatric & allergy offices, and grew a successful private practice as a massage therapist & energy practitioner. She enjoys hiking, boating, gardening, knitting and spending time with her dog, Bella. She hopes to bring her open mindedness and forward thinking to the board as we move towards the growth of our community.

Steve Hendricks, member, grew up in the Carolinas and spent many happy summers in the mountains. After completing a degree in architecture, one of his college professors offered him a job working in his environmental planning practice. Upon completing a master's degree in environmental planning and landscape architecture, his next step was in Asheville working for an architecture firm as a planner for hospitals and college campuses. But eventually, a passion for conservation and public service led him to a 33-year career with the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service. It took him to most regions of the country -- managing rivers, wilderness areas and facilities, as well as serving on teams to fight forest fires and aid in disaster recovery. Steve has served on a church council and has been a member of Episcopal, Lutheran, and Methodist congregations but finds Jubilee! the most intriguing community of all because of the clear emphasis on love and respect for all of creation. Steve and his wife Judy have attended Jubilee! consistently since Covid and are members of the Earth Team and are flexible in helping out at Jubilee! whenever possible. They love to travel to see friends and family around the U.S. as well as explore other countries around the world. Steve is active with local and national non-profits and has served as chair of the Asheville Urban Forestry Commission. He loves to spend time painting, drawing, roaming the forests, spending time with grandchildren, or taking courses at the OLLI program at UNCA. As a member of the board, Steve would strive to help the Jubilee! Community move forward in its mission of love and respect in these difficult and changing times.

Mollie Milner, member, has been a Jubilant since 2002, and served on Jubilee!'s Board from 2008-2011. Her background is in Mental Health as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Having worked in several hospitals and clinics, she ended her career at the MAHEC Ob/Gyn clinic, where she helped train residents in the use of pharmacology with pregnant patients and saw patients for therapy. Since retiring, she has volunteered in school gardens, been an active member of Jubilee!'s Earth Team and Social Justice Team, and become a Buncombe County Master Gardener volunteer. She and life partner, Ted, are focused on their son and two lovely grand girls -- seeing them in Baltimore as often as possible. They also enjoy visiting with family and friends, traveling, listening to live music, kayaking and bicycling.

Patricia Antolino, member, was born and raised in the Bronx. As a teenager, protests against the Vietnam war and the women’s rights movement kept her engaged and provided the perfect foundation to solidify her desire to bring peace and a re-membering of our connection to each other and all of creation. She moved to Tampa in 1971 and joined the Tampa Chapter of the National Organization for Women and soon became its President. Along with five other women, she began a rape crisis center and served on its Board. Growing up in an Italian Catholic family, she had a deep connection to Spirit from an early age, and in 1982, she moved to California to join a spiritual community. She took clairvoyant and energy healing classes, became a licensed massage therapist, a master Reiki healer, an Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) practitioner, and studied with Earth-based feminist spirituality teachers/healers Vicki Nobel, Starhawk and Sandra Ingerman. Patricia began facilitating women’s circles during Earth’s holy and cross quarter days. She started an organization called Healing Our MEmories (HOME) for survivors of childhood abuse, putting together large community events, as well as smaller art and meditation circles. After endometrial uterine cancer in 2013, she began volunteering at the Women’s Cancer Resource Center, facilitating meditation circles. Her greatest desire was to continue deepening her connection to the Goddess, to Source, to All that Is...and now she is in WNC, where she is a member of Jubilee!’s Celebration Task Force, the Sunday Planning group, and the Welcome Team. She also creates the altar each week specific to each Celebration.  In these unknown chaotic times of uncertainty and divisiveness, she says that being part of Jubilee! is a true gift and the community-led Sunday Celebrations bring empowerment and resistance in a whole new form through love, service, empathy and compassion.

Sandy Carson, member, grew up in central New Jersey, where she spent hours in a small woods behind her house. Observing nature is still one of her favorite activities. She is also very interested in human nature and differences in cultures. She was fortunate to travel extensively before getting married, having two  children and moving back to New Jersey from New York City.  She worked many different jobs, including 24 years in the children's department of the local library. There she started a popular cooking class for kids, was in charge of art for the rooms, and was union shop steward.  After traveling in SC and NC,  she moved to Asheville in 2015, and is currently on the Board of Asheville Newcomers Club , a women's nonprofit organization. Sandy is a member of Jubilee! Singers, and on the Jubilee! Earth Team and Social Justice Team. She recently joined the Welcome Team and serves as a greeter at Sunday Celebrations.