Mary Egan Price, Secretary

Mary Price received her BS degree from Western Michigan University and her MAT from Wayne State University.  She has been a Registered  Nurse for more than 35 years.  She was employed by the Detroit Public Schools for 16 years and retired from Warren Consolidated Schools.

Mary is a member of Christ the King Catholic Church and a founding board member of the Village Builders of Northwest Detroit. She has joined in interfaith community development work since the early 70's.

Vanessa Holsey, Treasurer

Vanessa Holsey joined ShoreBank Enterprise Detroit (SED), a non-profit lender in Detroit, as the Workforce Development Manager in October of 2007, where she focuses on marketing contractor development services and loans for prospective clients. She hosts and sponsors various networking events to join small contractors and subcontractors with larger contractors and local developers in the city of Detroit with 30 plus years of experience in the lending and banking industries. She obtained a BA in Business Management from Baker College and received a Masters Degree in Community Development at the University of Detroit Mercy in 2009. She is presently pursuing a PhD in Human Services with a specialization in Public/Social Policy and applications.  

Vanessa is an active member at the Galilee Missionary Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Tellis J. Chapman. She continues to sit on the Advisory Board for National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC), a Board member of the non-profit entity of Galilee MBC; Chapel Vision CDC where she holds the office “Director of Finance”. Additionally, Vanessa sits on the board of directors for Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ).

Robin J. McCants

Robin McCants is on staff at the Southeast Michigan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), where she has worked since 2004.  She is currently half-time director of communications for the synod and half-time director of Acts In Common, a non-profit arm that facilitates support for congregations in African American neighborhoods.

Prior employers include the Skillman Foundation and New Detroit, Inc.  Her career has had a theme of community development and race relations.

She has served on the MOSES board since 2008, and has actively supported the organization since 2005. Her other affiliations include:  Genesis HOPE (board member), Genesis Lutheran Church (member) and BRRICK [Building Racial Reconciliation in Christ’s Kingdom] (team member). 

Her general outlook is that her life is a ministry and that she is on this earth to direct people towards the assistance they need, or to direct the assistance to those who will receive a benefit.

Jacqueline "Jacquie" Steingold

Jacquie Steingold is a member of Temple Emanu El in Oak Park, MI. She has been a member of the MOSES Executive Board since 2005.

She has worked on many campaigns beginning in the 1980s.  These included City Council, State Board of Education, Michigan House and Senate, U.S. Senate, and numerous judges.

As Founding member of the Child Care Coordinating Council of Detroit/Wayne County, Inc.  she served on the board for 12 years. This organization is a major advocacy organization for child care in Wayne County.  In 1971 she secured funding and started the first evening child care center in Michigan, at Wayne County Community College.

William "Bill" Frey

Bill Frey is a member of Christ the King Catholic Church in Northwest Detroit and a member of MOSES Core Team at Christ the King. He is also a former member and president of the Parish Council.  Bill has been an attorney for approximately 30 years, after spending 5 years as a Math and Social Studies teacher at Our Lady of Sorrows in Farmington, Michigan. 

Bill has been a community activist in his neighborhood and devoted much time and effort to helping maintain the area.  He has held a number of positions in the local homeowners associations in Rosedale Park and North Rosedale Park, including president of both associations.  He is a past president of the parents group at the Detroit Open School. He has been a board member since 1989 and for the past seven years the president of the Grandmont Rosedale Development Corporation (GRDC) a non-profit that rehabilitates homes, renovates parks, playgrounds, and businesses in Grandmont Rosedale neighborhoods and five years ago opened the Northwest Detroit Farmers Market.   

Bill became active in MOSES in 2002 after attending week long training.  He was particularly interested in MOSES efforts to improve transportation and their efforts to get city and suburban congregations to work together to tackle regional social justice issues.

Rev. David Alexander Bullock

Rev. Bullock is the Pastor at Greater St. Matthew Baptist Church in Highland Park, MI. His ministry is unique because he is dedicated both to the pulpit and to the classroom. After graduating from high school in 1994 (at the age of 16), Reverend Bullock entered Morehouse College graduating in 1998 with a degree in Philosophy and a minor in History. Reverend Bullock then entered the Doctoral program in Philosophy at Wayne State University, where he is currently in the final stages of dissertation preparation. In addition to being a PhD candidate at Wayne State University, Reverend Bullock is also currently a graduate student at the University of Chicago, where he is receiving advanced training in Theology. He is the current President of the Highland Park Branch of the NAACP,　the President of the Detroit Chapter　of Rainbow-Push and the Chairman of the Issues Committee of the Council of Baptist Pastor's.

As a preacher of the gospel, Reverend Bullock remains committed to the cause of Christ; as an educator he stands firm in the conviction that no student is unteachable and no goal is unreachable and as a person of character in a world of compromise he is convinced that the ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in times of comfort or convenience, but where they stand in times of challenge and controversy.

James P. Smith Jr.

James P. Smith is a lifelong Detroiter raised on the eastside of the city. He graduated from Cass Technical High School in 1975 and attended college at St. Mary’s College (now Madonna University) where he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Management.

He is currently working as a Project Engineer at General Motors.

He is a member of the Greater Apostolic Faith Temple Church in Detroit where he serves as the Church Administrator and the Church Treasurer. He has been with the MOSES organization since its inception in 1994, originally a member of the Jeremiah Project.

He has served MOSES in different capacities such as Treasurer, Board Member and Turnout Co Chair just to name a few.

“I am proud of my affiliation with this organization and with the many successes we have shared down through the years and looking forward to many more.”~ James P. Smith Jr.

Imam Abdullah El-Amin

Imam El-Amin is the founder and chairman of the Muslim Center in Detroit, Michigan.  The Muslim Center is a Mosque and Community Center founded with the mission to establish an institution with an aggressive outreach ministry that seeks to interact with Jews, Christians, and other people of faith.  The Muslim Center operates a free health clinic as well as a weekly soup kitchen that has been in operation for over 20 years.

Imam El-Amin is the Director of Community Relations for the Metro-Detroit Service Stations (MDSS), an organization of over 140 gas stations.  MDSS seeks to bridge the gap between the community residents and area gas stations.  Before his appointment to the MDSS position, Imam El-Amin led a successful campaign that led to the ban of the sales of drug paraphernalia from Detroit gas stations and party stores.  The Detroit ban eventually spread to include the entire State of Michigan. 

Imam El-Amin is also the executive director of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan (CIOM).  CIOM is an umbrella organization of area mosques and Islamic organizations.  CIOM helps Islamic organizations to cooperate with each other and thus reap the benefits of working together.

Rev. Doctor Kevin M. Turman

At the services of pastoral installation for Rev. Dr. Kevin M. Turman, a representative from the community stated, “much is required to become the pastor of this church, and much is expected of him as well.”  Rev. Turman has taken that to heart and, while attempting to address the many pastoral needs of the congregation of Second Baptist, he has moved and similarly challenged the congregation to fulfill the mission of the church to have a meaningful and impacting ministry within and beyond the walls of the church.

Rev. Turman began his academic preparation for ministry by obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in American Government at Harvard College, followed by a Master’s in Divinity from Yale Divinity School.  Rev. Turman was mobilized to active duty in the winter of 1990, in support of Operation Desert Storm and in 1991 returned to his church ministry and community service.

 Rev. Turman served as president of MOSES for four years.

Cindy Reese

Cindy Reese has lived in Detroit all her life. She is a graduate from Cass Tech HS.  She worked for Michigan Bell, Sprint, Zerox and City of Birmingham, where she retired  after working 33 years in 2008. 

She has been a member of Greater Southern since 1975 and a church Trustee since 1977.  In the summer of 2010 Cindy was elevated to Deacon at Greater Southern.

Cindy has been an active member of MOSES since 1996. 

She helped organized Fix-it-First campaign, organized to get the Detroit Land Bank Authority passed and she now is co-chair of the Transportation Taskforce.

Rev. Robert O. Dulin

Rev. Dulin is a native of Kansas and came to Michigan by way of Ohio and Indiana.  Now retired, he served the Metropolitan Church of God since February of 1974 to December 31, 2008.  Prior to coming to the Metropolitan church, he was the associate secretary for the Board of Christian of Education of his denomination in Anderson, Indiana where he served for five years carrying program responsibilities for family life and adult education, and urban ministries.
He is a graduate (1963/BA) of Anderson University, and the Central Baptist Theological Seminary (1967/MDiv).  In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from Anderson University. 

He is currently the Regional Pastor for the Churches of God in Southeastern Michigan.  Additionally, he is a part-time chaplain for Coles Home for Funerals.

He enjoys conducting parenting classes and marriage enrichment sessions with couples.