Bob Palm President Bob Palm is currently serving as a Vice President for Refugee Services of Texas, Inc., and is a Founding Member and currently serves as Board President for the Association for Refugee Service Professionals. Mr. Palm has worked in the refugee field for over twenty five years. He has served as an Affiliate Director for Church World Service, Episcopal Migration Ministries, and as a Regional Consultant for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. Prior to joining Refugee Services of Texas, Inc., Mr. Palm served as a private Consultant in the refugee field. Mr. Palm graduated from the University of Minnesota, Duluth with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology, and attended Graduate School at Worden’s School of Social Service, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas.

Sandra Mullins Vice President Since 1998, Sandra Mullins has served as the Executive Director of Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services of Atlanta, formerly Refugee Ministries at the Christian Council of Metropolitan Atlanta. In November of 1999 she was nominated by her peers and elected to serve as the CWS/IRP Affiliate Representative for IRPCOM. She is the Vice President of the Refugee Council for the State of Georgia. Sandra graduated with a B.A. in English from Capital University and a Master’s of Divinity from Emory University in 1980. She has 30 years of experience working with nonprofit and church-related organizations. Sandra served as pastor for four congregations and served eight years as Assistant Conference Minister in the Southeast Conference for the United Church of Christ. During those years of service she worked with 90 congregations and designed, developed and implemented programs for local churches in the areas of Education, Stewardship, Justice and Peace, Women’s Concerns, Evangelism, Human Sexuality, and Church Growth. Over the past fifteen years Sandra has coordinated a number of USAID-funded international nonprofit training and development programs in NGO Management and in Violence Against Women and Children. She has also been responsible for developing long-range fundraising plans, recruiting and training volunteers and key leadership, strategic planning for various organizations, such as Girls Clubs, YWCA, Georgia State University Women’s Center, The Friendship Force, Winrock International/NIS-US Women’s Consortium.

Carlton E. Meier Treasurer Carlton E. Meier is a financial and management consultant providing technical assistance for refugee resettlement agencies, governmental units, foundations and not-for-profit organizations. Until he semi-retired, Carl was Vice President for Lutheran Social Services in New York City, which provided local resettlement services for up to 1,300 refugees annually.  Earlier, while Director of Finance and Administration for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Carl helped grow LIRS' Office of Refugee Resettlement Matching Grant program from annual expenditures of $700,000 to a budget of more than $8,000,000 over five years.  His involvement with refugees began as a volunteer when his congregation assisted Southeast Asian refugees during the late 1970s. Carl chairs the board of directors of Community Investing Company, Inc., Wilmington, DE and the endowment fund committee for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's New Jersey Synod, having served on the synod council.  Carl is also a board member for ISED Solutions, a not-for-profit research and consulting firm in Washington, DC.  Prior to joining LIRS he was First Vice President and corporate controller for one of the 100 largest public bank holding companies in the US. A graduate of Babson College with an MBA from the Eller Graduate School of Management at the University of Arizona, Carl continued his education with a diploma from the School for Bank Administration at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and graduate work at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Lisa David Secretary Lisa has worked in the refugee resettlement field since 1995.  She has held the position of Regional Director with the International Rescue Committee since 1999, and currently oversees both their Regional Office in Dallas and Sub-Office in Abilene.  Prior to joining IRC, she worked with Catholic Charities/Boston where she managed the Refugee Resettlement program and volunteered as Coordinator of a Haitian refugee women’s group.  She also served as voluntary Chair of the Resource Center for Women and International Development, a joint Harvard/MIT group.  Prior to entering the refugee field, Lisa served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica for two years assisting rural women with microenterprise projects.  She holds a M.A. in Intercultural Relations from Lesley College and a B.A. in Political Science/International Relations from the University of Rochester.

Sandy Myers Assistant Treasurer Sandra Hudson Myers has a Master of Education from Texas Wesleyan University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Texas Arlington.  Ms. Myers is currently employed by the School of Education at Texas Wesleyan writing grants and managing the bilingual grant program.  She is also affiliated with Refugee Services of Texas as a grant writer.  Ms. Myers has 20 years of experience developing and managing ESL/literacy, citizenship and acculturation programs for adult refugees and immigrants.  She also developed and managed a translation and interpretation program for 10 years.  Ms. Myers has presented at numerous local and state TexTESOL conferences, for the Texas Department of Human Services, and for Fort Worth and San Antonio ISDs.  Her publications can be found in the Wesleyan Graduate Review and the Journal of Teacher Education.

Carol Roxburgh Assistant Secretary Carol Roxburgh is the Executive Director of Refugee Services of Texas Inc. where she has been employed for over ten years.  She has worked in many capacities from Co-sponsor Developer to Case Manager to Sub office director with RST as well as being seconded to IRP New York on three occasions.  Africa has a special place in her heart as she lived there for ten years and has since visited privately and with the CWS Affiliate trip in October 2004.  Previously employed with Dallas Baptist University, she began working in a local Vietnamese mission church and that, added to her African background, made the transition to a refugee ministry a natural fit.  Carol currently serves as the CWS Affiliate Representative to IRPCOM and chairs the Affiliate Advisory Group.  She is also a founding member of the Association for Refugee Services Professionals.