Leadership

National Council

NOMAS National Council is comprised of men and women elected from the NOMAS membership based on a number of criteria including past effectiveness in NOMAS causes and general recognition as leaders. The council is chaired by tow co-chairs who individually and collectively have decision-making responsibility for NOMAS on a variety of issues affecting the organization at large. Current co-chairs are Allen Corben and Moshe Rozdzial. A complete list of the NOMAS leadership council is posted below.

Marvin Anderson Supervisor, Domestic Violence Program for Men, VCS Community Change Project, New City, NY.

Ben Atherton-Zeman Spokesperson for NOMAS, resides in Acton, MA. Actor, Comedian, Feminist and Husband. Presenting a One-Man Play, "Voices of Men," which uses humor and celebrity male voice impressions to educate audiences about sexual assault, domestic violence and other forms of men's violence against women. Video clips now available.

Don Bell Don Bell is trainer and leader on issues of multiculturalism, sexism, Racism, homophobia, and HIV/AIDS. He lives in Chicago, Il.

Robert Brannon Professor, Brooklyn College and NOMAS co-founder. He serves as Men's Studies Association and NOMAS Pornography and Prostitution Task Group leader and is NYS-NOW Task Force Co-Chair on Trafficking, Pornography and Prostitution

Donald Cavanaugh BROTHER editor and NOMAS task group leader on Gay civil rights. He is assistant director of Miami-Dade chapter of GLSEN.

Allen Corben NOMAS co-chair. Allen Corben is on staff at Fuller Theological Seminary. He does interfaith and interreligious work with the National Conference for Community and Justice (formerly known as National Conference of Christians and Jews). A single father, he lost his spouse to breast cancer in 2005. Allen is the NOMAS task group leader on Homophobia, and co-leader of the task group on Men and Spirituality with Moshe Rozdzial.

Phyllis B. Frank Director, VCS Community Change Project, Rockland County, NY; Founding director of the national training institute New York Model for Batterer Programs; Founding director of Gay Pride Rockland; President of the Rockland County Chapter of NOW, Co-Chair of NOW NYS Task Force on Pornography.

Rose Garrity Executive Director of A New Hope Center (ANHC), , an upstate New York organization providing advocacy, counseling, safe shelter, support groups, nonresidential domestic violence, batterer, and teen programs, rape crisis and comprehensive crime victims services, and activism, support, training and community education for survivors of abuse, sexual assault and other crimes. ANHC does its work with an anti-oppression consciousness and serves LGBTQQI and other guests from a region including and beyond its own county. Rose is the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, on the board of a local Center for Gender, Arts and Culture, and has written and trained on topics of justice and equality for many years. She has served on the faculty of the national training institute "New York Model for Batterer Programs" for many years.

Doug Gertner Doug is an educator and consultant on issues including fatherhood and work-life balance. He is founder and principal of Emu Consulting, LLC, and is on the editorial board of the journal Men and Masculinities. Doug is a national trainer for Boot Camp for New Dads along with teaching college classes on issues of men and masculinity.

David Greene David Greene is a Professor of Psychology at Ramapo College of New Jersey. His teaching, scholarship and activism are primarily centered around issues related to gender and to social class.

Christopher Kilmartin Dr. Christopher Kilmartin is a college professor, author, stand-up comedian, actor, playwright, consultant and professional psychologist. He is a Professor of Psychology at The University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. He is the author of The Masculine Self and together with co-author John Lynch, he wrote The Pain behind the Mask: Overcoming Masculine Depression His latest book is a manual, Sexual Assault in Context: Teaching College Men about Gender. Drawing on his background as a professional stand-up comedian, Dr. Kilmartin wrote a solo theatre performance on men's issues entitled Crimes Against Nature. He is currently working on a solo performance entitled Guy Fi: The Fictions that Rule Men's Lives. He is a nationally-recognized expert on the prevention of sexual assault and sexual harassment on college campuses.

Brian Klocke Brian is Lead Coordinator for the Graduate Teacher Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has a PhD in Sociology, and has taught in Sociology and Women's Studies on issues of masculinities and femininities, globalization, and social control.

Vernon McClean Professor of African-American studies, William Patterson College, New Jersey.

Jim McDowell Court Liaison, Registrar, Research and Evaluation, VCS Community Change Project, New City, NY, and founder of “Man to Man: Working together for Change”, Rockland County, NY.

Moshe Rozdzial NOMAS co-chair. Moshe is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in private practice, in Denver, Colorado. He is a certified sex therapist, addiction interventionist, and trauma counselor. Moshe is a trainer and presenter on issues of diversity, multiculturalism, social justice, gender identity, sexual orientation, men’s issues, and sexuality. He is also the publisher of BROTHER, the NOMAS journal, and leader of the men’s culture, mental health, and homophobia and heterosexism task groups.

Zev Schuman-Olivier, MD Co-founder, Boston-NOMAS Chapter. Currently training as a resident in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Hospital.

Barry Shapiro NOMAS founder. Regional director of American Assoc. for Affirmative Action, and founder of Barry Shapiro and Assoc., one of the country's leading consulting and training firms in sexual harassment prevention, managing diversity successfully, and equal opportunity-affirmative action.

Jack Straton Assistant Professor at Portland State University. Founder, Men Against Rape groups in Eugene, Oregon, Washington, D.C., and Manhattan, Kansas. He has published extensively in professional journals from his research in Quantum Scattering Theory, Gender Equity, and Diversity Training Methods. He has served as co-chair of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) and, as coordinator of the NOMAS Task Group on Child Custody Issues, is recognized as one of the leading writers and speakers in the country with expertise on ethical and public policy issues related to the overlap between child custody, child abuse, and woman abuse.

Randy Weled Marriage and family therapist in private practice in San Francisco. Resident counselor at Congregation Sha’ar Zahav. Trainer and speaker on issues of diversity, addiction and recovery, anti-Semitism, and homophobia, and, with Moshe Rozdzial, facilitated workshops on “Power Dynamics in Relationshps”.

Leadership Collective

NOMAS Leadership Collective is comprised of members who wish to be involved in NOMAS activities but do not want to commit to the requirements of the National Council. The Leadership Collective is made up of volunteers who perform a variety of tasks including membership in task groups and acting as resource people on behalf of NOMAS.

Task Groups/Resource People

NOMAS entrusts policy statements and actions in specific content areas to national resource persons and task group leaders. The National Council has designated resource persons for the areas below.

Child Custody - Jack Straton
Classism - Rose Garrity and David Greene
Eliminating Racism -Phyllis B. Frank, Marvin Anderson, Jim McDowell, Don Bell
Ending Men's Violence - Phyllis B. Frank
Fathering -Doug Gertner
Gay Civil Rights - Donald Cavanaugh
Globalization - Brian Klocke
HIV/AIDS -Don Bell
Homophobia and Heterosexism - Allen Corben and Moshe Rozdzial
Men and Mental Health - Moshe Rozdzial
Men and Prisons - Terry Kupers
Men and Spirituality - Allen Corben
Men's Culture - Moshe Rozdzial
Men's Studies - David Greene and Carol Campana, Co-chairs, with Robert Brannon , Michael Kimmel, and Doug Gertner
Pornography and Prostitution - Robert Brannon
Pro-Feminism - Allen Corben and Robert Brannon
Sexual Harasement - Barry Shapiro

In Memorium

In memory of leaders in the pro-feminist men's movement whose lives made a difference for all of us.

Jeff Beane was a father of NOMAS, and a beloved and joyful gay spirit. For 20 years Jeff was a central leader and builder of the pro-feminist men's movement, the creator of "PCNC" and the Mid-Winter Meeting and many warm smiles. Jeff Beane's love and empathy with men and their psychological wounds and burdens left a huge number of people who were touched by him.
Jon Cohen was small in physical stature, and a giant in spirit, courage, and intellect. Jon's entire life was devoted to the fight against domestic violence, male supremacy, war, and patriarchy. Jon was a tireless warrior against injustice, and served NOMAS as co-chair and in many other roles.
Jim Hanneken was a central pillar of NOMAS and of the Pittsburgh Men's Collective, who described his life's goal as "Promoting Social Change; Building Community; and Loving Men." Jim pioneered in anti-violence work, befriended the radical fairies, and early explored a Radical Queer Identity. Jim Hanneken exemplified all the core values of NOMAS and was himself at the center of the anti-sexist men's movement.
Sidney Miller was a stalwart and a central figure of the anti-sexist movement for 15 years. He was in his words "a poet, born of our movement," a beloved, charismatic, self-educated blue collar worker who wrote his first poem to read at the 2nd M&M, became a symbol of Men's Culture, and was named the Poet Laureate of NOMAS in 1986.
Bob Morgan was a founding father of NOMAS, its first symbolic leader, and also the founder of the Pittsburgh Men's Center, which sponsored two M&Ms. Bob Morgan's commitment, intelligence, dignity, joy of life, and love of men are remembered by many in NOMAS.
Barbara Wallston was a central leader and pillar of the M&M tradition since its founding. She was a respected national leader in women's studies and in social psychology who invested her name, reputation, and energy in NOMAS. Barbara was a woman of deeply feminist politics, a clear thinker, a worker, and a community-builder.

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