Congregational Council Nominations

The Congregational Nominating & Leadership Development Committee is pleased to place on the ballot the persons listed below for election to five positions on the Congregational Council. Candidates for the 2026-2029 Congregational Council are:  

 Daniel Ehrman, Kayla Ford, Jim Hopkins, Marcelo Phillips, Sian Wetherill 

Furthermore, we are pleased to present the names of nominees to serve as delegates to the 2026 Diocesan Convention. Nominees for delegates to Diocesan Convention: Felicia Stenhouse Eve, Scott Evenbeck, and Alan Yu, and alternate delegate Donato Mallano  

Voting will take place in person after all three services on March 1, 2026 and the results will be announced at 12:45pm that afternoon at the Annual Meeting of the Congregation in the Parish Hall. 

Candidates for Congregational Council 

Daniel Ehrman 

Daniel Ehrman has attended Trinity Church since 2022. He serves regularly as a Sunday worship leader, is a co-lead of the LGBTQ+ Ministry, and sings with Trinity’s Downtown Voices ensemble. Outside of Trinity, Ehrman is a management consultant at EY, where he focuses on organizational change and leadership engagement. An avid runner, musician, and mental health advocate, Ehrman is an active member of Front Runners New York and a past board member of Mental Health America. 

Kayla Ford 

Kayla Ford has been attending services at Trinity Church since 2022. She volunteers as a worship leader and is involved in Faith Formation programming and the Young Adults ministry. She is deeply grateful for the community and spiritual life at Trinity. Professionally, she has worked as a chaplain in outpatient and inpatient settings and currently serves at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island. Ford graduated from Lipscomb University with a BA in philosophy and English and holds a master’s degree from Yale Divinity School. Outside of work and Trinity, she finds joy in rest, creativity, and meaningful conversations with others. 

Jim Hopkins 

Jim and Amy Hopkins came to Trinity in 2007 when their youngest daughter joined the youth choir. At Trinity, Jim has served as verger, subdeacon, greeter, lector, discernment committee member, and more. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he has served as a symphony orchestra violist, orchestra CFO, executive director for two orchestras, director for a consulting firm, university development director, and now budget director for Manhattan Youth and president of his condo board. He and Amy live in Battery Park City, where they raised their three children. They enjoy performing free chamber music concerts and traveling by motorcycle. 

Marcelo Phillips 

Marcelo Phillips has been a parishioner at Trinity Church since 2019. His connection to Trinity began when he and his wife, Maureen, were searching for a church to baptize their first child. Trinity’s warm welcome and seamless baptism process immediately made the family feel at home. 

Phillips began volunteering with Compassion Meals and Space in 2023 and became a worship leader in 2024. He has deeply enjoyed growing in faith and becoming more involved in the life of the church. 

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Phillips grew up in Ithaca, New York. He and Maureen have two daughters, Lillian, 7, and Erin, 3. Lillian actively participates in the 9am services as a crucifer and torchbearer and often helps her father usher. The family has lived in Battery Park City since 2014. 

Professionally, Phillips is a managing director at a private market investment firm, where he has worked since 2016. He is responsible for global risk and governance and co-manages the Legal and Compliance department. 

Sian Wetherill 

Sian Wetherill has been a member of Trinity since 2005. She worked on exhibition planning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 25 years and is now a lay chaplain, working in hospital and prison re-entry settings. At Trinity, she has participated in various ministries, including as a Godly Play mentor, a Being With co-facilitator, a lay eucharist visitor, a Women in Community participant, a volunteer with Prison Ministry and the Compassion Market, and a participant in multiple pilgrimages and retreats. She lives with her husband in Lower Manhattan, and they have two adult sons. 

Delegates to Diocesan Convention 

Felicia Stenhouse Eve 

Felicia Stenhouse Eve and her family have been attending services at Trinity Church for more than 10 years and currently attend the 11:15am service. She has served on the Congregational Council as member, vice president, and president over her two terms. Prior to serving on the Council, she served as chairperson of the Stewardship subcommittee of the Witness and Outreach Committee. She has represented Trinity Church at the Diocesan Convention as a delegate for the past four years.  

Scott Evenbeck 

Scott Evenbeck has been a member of Trinity since 2011. He has represented Trinity at the Diocesan Convention and has served on the Vestry. He served many years as a deputy to General Convention, chairing the Committee on Education. He served as president of the Church Club and was president of U.S. Friends of Gladstone’s Library. Evenbeck is vice chair of the HBCU Committee of the Executive Council and a board member for the Association of Episcopal Colleges. He was founding president of Guttman Community College and now serves as university professor at Baruch College. He earned his baccalaureate degree at Indiana University and his graduate degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Alan Yu 

Alan Yu is incredibly grateful for the community and fellowship at Trinity Church and has been attending services since 2014. He volunteers as a worship leader on Sundays and contributes to the annual Lenten Meditation booklet. He is in his second term on the Congregational Council, serving as the chairperson of the Youth & Young Adults Standing Committee. Professionally, he has spent his entire career in nonprofits and is the executive director of New Yorkers for Children. Yu graduated magna cum laude with a BA in urban studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a master’s of city planning  from the University of Pennsylvania. Outside of work and Trinity, Yu serves on the Museum of Modern Art’s Young Patrons Council Steering Committee and is the New York City chairperson of the Penn LGBT Alumni Association. 

Alternate Delegate: Donato Mallano 

Donato has been an active parishioner of Trinity Church since 2008 and has participated in volunteer opportunities and programs including Brown Bag, Congregational Council, Visual Arts, Lay Eucharistic ministry, 2020 Diocesan Convention delegation, and the Sunday 9am service. Donato is in the IT Services industry, most recently with Cognizant, working with organizations on digital transformation programs. He lives on Staten Island with his wife Jennifer, son Matthew, and family dog Summer while enjoying the Parks and Greenbelts of the borough and being a good neighbor.