GCORR Hires Elaine Moy as Senior Director of Finance and Institutional Equity

Media Contact:
Jeehye Kim Pak, Director of Communications
General Commission on Religion and Race of The United Methodist Church
202-495-2949
jpak@gcorr.org

Dec. 21, 2020

A Chicago-based United Methodist laywoman, with more than 20 years’ experience in financial and administrative management, will join the staff of the denomination’s General Commission on Religion and Race (GCORR), effective Jan. 25, 2021. Interim General Secretary M. Garlinda Burton announced the hire on Dec. 20.

Elaine Moy, currently a staff member at the General Commission on the Status and Role of Women, has been hired as GCORR’s Senior Director for Development, Finance, and Institutional Equity. In this role, she will lead the Commission’s work in supporting conferences, agencies, and related entities to meet goals for eliminating institutional and systemic racism from church policies and practices, including building more interculturally diverse and competent leadership teams.

Moy will also take over as chief financial officer for the denomination-wide racial justice commission. GCORR staff member Harris Tay will move from financial management to become Senior Director of Administration and Annual Conference Commission relations.

Elaine Moy

Moy, a lay member of First UMC Evanston, Ill., and the Northern Illinois Conference, has degrees in communications from the University of Albany, SUNY. She first came to work for the church’s women’s advocacy commission in 1994 as administrative support for the former General Secretaries. Over the years, her responsibilities expanded to include lead financial officer and human resources manager for the agency.

She has collaborated with GCORR to recruit, orient, and deploy diversity monitors at General Conference and develop a desk-audit process to track the inclusion of People of Color and white women as paid staff and volunteers across the denomination. That led her to create a regular report to the church titled “Women by the Numbers,” which reports on lay and clergy women's current role and status.

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