MCC San Francisco Board of Directors

Leadership from the Congregation

The Board of Directors of Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco is the local church administrative body and is authorized to provide administrative leadership subject to the direction of the congregational meeting.

The Board of Directors has charge of all matters pertaining to the church's legal organization and incorporation, church property, risk management, and physical and financial affairs of the church. In 2009 the congregation amended its bylaws to set the size of the Board to seven members elected from the congregation and the senior pastor, who is a permanent member. The Board then elects its lay leaders, treasurer, and clerk.

Rahn Anderson (2010-1011, Co-Lay Leader) and his husband Greg have been members of MCCSF since 1998. They have documented numerous MCCSF events through their videography business, Carey Systems, and Rahn assists with serving Communion at the 7:00 p.m. service. Rahn is currently a Senior Account Manager at Visa Inc., where he supports the technical and innovation initiatives of financial institutions and merchants. He received his Bachelors Degree in Music Education, with post-graduate studies in Business Administration and Accounting, from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD. Rahn and Greg have been residents of San Francisco since 1992. Prior to moving to San Francisco, they were members of MCC Sioux Falls (SD), where Rahn volunteered as music director and keyboardist.	Kelly Mazzei (2009-2010, Co-Lay Leader) has been a member of MCCSF since 2003. She is currently Director of Business Operations for the Information Technology Organization at Sun Microsystems Inc in Menlo Park and has been with the company since 1988. While at Sun over the last 21 years, Kelly has held a variety of positions, but most recently led a $500M Program to implement Oracle 11i Software inside of Sun’s business. She earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from Loyola Marymount University. She lives in the East Bay with her wife, Karen, and their two cats, KD & Emily.
Glenn Stover (2009-2010, Clerk) works as an attorney in San Francisco, where he represents small telephone companies before state and federal regulators and provides them with business advice. He founded his law firm, StoverLaw, in June 2003. In the course of Glenn's career, he has also litigated environmental and antitrust cases; represented AT&T at twelve state utility commissions; and served as Governmental Affairs Vice President for a Silicon Valley telecom start-up company. He earned his bachelor’s degree cum laude from Princeton University, and his law degree from Harvard. A singer since childhood, Glenn is currently a member of the Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, and also sings in the Chorus's small ensemble, Counterpoint. He lives in the Castro with his partner, Gerard, a psychiatric nursing assistant at San Francisco’s VA Medical Center.	Sam Kohler (2010-2011, Treasurer) has been a member of MCCSF since 2003. He has been involved with MenSpirit and is currently singing with the Many Names Choir at the 11 am service. Sam is currently employed as a Tax Manager at Hitachi America, Ltd in Brisbane, CA. He has 20 years of experience in the field of taxation, starting with Deloitte & Touche in Fall 1989. Sam received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. He has been a San Francisco resident since October 1989.
Kathy Olberts (2010-2011, Member at Large) has been a member of MCCSF since 2000. She sings in the 11:00am Choir and formerly sang in the 7:00pm Worship & Praise Choir. She has led a number of MCCSF church retreats over the past six years and has volunteered in various other capacities. Professionally, she is in her 10th year as an Executive Career Coach and Leadership Team Coach, working with executives and teams in non-profit and for profit organizations around the country. Previously she held business development, marketing and strategic planning leadership roles in a number of Fortune 500 companies. Kathy received a Bachelor's Degree and an MBA, both magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. Kathy lives with her wife Shauna of 13 years, and their beloved schnoodle Sophie in the Ashbury Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. They are singer/musicians in a queer 3-part ukulele band called The Merry Ukuladies.	Bill Bruemmer (2010-2011, Member at Large) has been attending MCCSF since 2000 and has been a member since 2001. Raised in Marin County, he graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a major in social welfare, and worked for 35 years for the County of Marin as a Social Worker and Probation Officer, retiring as a Probation Division Director in 2006. He has two grown daughters and two granddaughters, all of whom live in Sonoma County. Bill met his partner Jeff at a Men’s Retreat at MCC in 2000 and they have been together since 2001. They make their home in the Western Addition area of San Francisco. You can usually find Bill ushering at the 11am service. He also is active in recruiting MCC’s volunteers for street fairs.
Rev. Dr. Lea D. Brown (2008-present, Member at Large) began serving as the senior minister of MCC San Francisco in March 2008, after two years as the senior pastor of Wichita Falls MCC in Texas. Before that she was the acting executive director of the Metropolitan Community Foundation in San Francisco. In addition to leading the foundation, Rev. Brown served as volunteer clergy at MCCSF since her ordination there in 1996. Throughout the 1990s Rev. Brown was a staff member at Spectrum, Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns in Marin County. As the program director, she developed and coordinated an extensive Speakers Bureau and numerous community programs for GLBT youth, young adults, seniors and families. While in seminary, she served as a Chaplain Candidate (2nd Lt.) in the U.S. Army from 1988 to 1989. Rev. Brown received her education from Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma; Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, California; and Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California. In May of 2010 she received her Doctor of Ministry degree from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA, along with the J. Norman Hall Prize for outstanding work in the areas of peace and justice.