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We help all kinds of Friends churches and meetings–of different sizes, ages, budgets, cultures, and languages– to broaden and deepen their connections. What follows is greater life and power to live out their own call..

Meet the Quaker Connect Leadership


Jade Rockwell - Program Director for Quaker Connect

Jade Rockwell

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Jade Rockwell came to Quakers as a teenage seeker. She previously worked as a social worker, birth doula, and community organizer, and was recognized as a poverty scholar by the Kairos Center Poor People’s Campaign. She has attended and served in unprogrammed, evangelical, and pastoral Friends congregations in both urban and rural settings.

In 2015, she began studying Spanish while working in a bilingual Friends church. In 2016, she spent a summer visiting Cuba Yearly Meeting with her then three children, beginning a long-term intervisitation friendship with Cuba. In 2020, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish language and literature from Portland State University. She is now a student at Earlham School of Religion where her emphasis is pastoral ministry.

A Pacific Northwest native, Jade now makes her home in Richmond, Indiana. Her family includes her Michigander husband Tom, four children aged 2 to 24, and a few Cuban newcomers to the US. She is a recorded minister of Camas Friends Church, Sierra-Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends, and co-pastors with her husband at West Elkton Friends Meeting in Ohio.

Jade is excited to join Quaker Connect and bring her experience with community and congregational work among the diversity of Friends in the Americas. Her personal calling is around equipping Friends communities for both personal and social change.

C. Wess Daniels - Design Consultant

C. Wess Daniels

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C. Wess Daniels is a recorded minister and the William R. Rogers Director of Friends Center & Quaker Studies at Guilford College. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with his wife, Emily and their three children. His Ph.D. is from Fuller Theological Seminary. Wess teaches Quaker studies at Guilford College and has taught at Earlham School of Religion, George Fox Seminary, Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, and Pendle Hill.

He is widely published in Quaker publications including Quaker Studies, Quaker Religious Thought, Friends Journal, and more. He is the author of, “Resisting Empire: The Book of Revelation as Resistance” (2019) and “A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing The Quaker Tradition in Participatory Culture” (2015), and the co-editor of, “The Quaker World” (2022). His teaching and writing focus on liberating spirituality, revitalizing faith traditions, and renewing community for the work of love in the world. In his spare time, Wess runs a small coffee roasting business in Greensboro called Fireweed Coffee Co.

NiaDwynwen Thomas - Evaluation Consultant for Quaker Connect

NiaDwynwen Thomas

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NiaDwynwen Thomas is a member of Northampton Meeting in Massachusetts and serves as Program Director for New England Yearly Meeting of Friends. In this role, Nia co-creates, curates, integrates, and evaluates opportunities and resources in faith formation, leadership development, and Quaker practice for Friends across the lifespan with particular focus on congregational health, multigenerational relationship, and emergent design. She is a graduate student of Program Evaluation at Michigan State University. As an evaluator, Nia takes a pragmatic, utilization focused approach paying particular attention to the ways evaluation can strengthen a religious body or institution’s ability to engage in grounded discernment and wise, courageous decision-making.