There are three people who make up the Clerk Team for the 2026 Gathering. Each person brings gifts that help to deepen worship, deepen faithfulness, and draw communities together. The Clerk Team works together to hold the spiritual foundation of the Gathering.

The 2026 Gathering of Friends will be held at the University of Vermont in Burlington from July 7-12, 2026. The Clerk Team joyfully invites you to come together with Friends from around North America and beyond. The Gathering can be energizing! This year, the Gathering is centered on the theme “A Window and a Door: A Prayer.”

The clerks share:

Our desire is to create an experience of the FGC Gathering that is spacious, worshipful and open to hearing Spirit together. Our prayer is for the Gathering to be a time that we co-create community where we find both windows and doors of our souls, and form a gathered collective body that is graced with windows and doors.

For past attenders, this year’s Gathering will feel both the same and different. Friends will gather over a period of six days, grounded in worship. Workshops will run for four days, with a commitment to spaciousness throughout the week. There will be ample opportunities for worship, fellowship and play – both spontaneous and planned.

Enjoy reading about the Clerk Team below!

Anne Pomeroy

Anne Pomeroy (they/them) attended their first Quaker Meeting at the age of 15 and never left.  They carry a concern for the vitality and vibrancy of the Quaker faith, with a particular focus on co-creating a culture of belonging and care.  Anne’s faith instills in them a deep commitment to address injustice and love of neighbor. Anne carries a particular concern for addressing racism and LGBTQ+ rights.  They carry love as a testimony to guide their life.  

Anne cultivates a deep sense of listening to the Divine in all they do. Anne has served the Society of Friends across the United States as a seasoned retreat facilitator on topics such as: Faithfulness, Call, Care of Community, Continuing Revelation, Conflict Transformation, and Eldership. Anne frequently serves as an elder for gatherings of Friends, and served with Janet Hough and LVM Shelton as elders for the Nurturing Faithfulness Program. This work shapes Anne’s experience of the transformative power of our faith.  Anne also carries out this work of deep transformative listening in their spiritual direction practice. 

Anne has been actively involved in FGC for 20 years and has served on many committees in their monthly meeting and New York Yearly Meeting. Anne attends Brooklyn Meeting’s 9 am on-line worship group and is a member of New Paltz Monthly Meeting (New York Yearly Meeting).  Anne lives as a Quaker monastic, thriving on deep spiritual connections with others to behold how Spirit is revealing new paths for us. 

Janet Gibian Hough

Janet Gibian Hough grew up in a multi-faith family of recent refugee and long-ago European immigrants. Her Quaker faith has been shaped over a life-time of self-reflection and cultural curiosity, while living on three continents. Janet is a volunteer facilitator for Wabanaki REACH programs on decolonization for non-native conservation and faith communities in Maine.

Janet is a member of Cobscook Meeting in Whiting, Maine and active in Three Rivers Meeting (on-line). Janet has served in many roles for New England Yearly Meeting (NEYM). She was recently named as clerk of Ministry & Counsel for NEYM, shepherding new forms of life in the yearly meeting. Janet has served on the Noticing Patterns of Oppression & Faithfulness Working Group, which seeks to name patterns that show up in Quaker spaces. She has also served on the Quaker Indigenous Boarding School Research group for New England Yearly Meeting. Janet is one of the four co-authors of An Invitation to Quaker Eldering: On Being Faithful to the Ministry of Spiritual Nurture Among Friends.

Janet shares:

“I am both excited and humbled to serve as co-clerk for planning the 2026 Gathering of Friends. I am intrigued by the challenge to listen for what may be called forth from  Quakers in these times. How are we called to be in the world? What networks of relationships are we being drawn into? Are we open to transformation – both individually and in community – including the community we build during the Gathering?”

Regina Renee Nyégbeh

Regina Renee Nyégbeh  is a public library director,  and a former public school teacher. She is passionate about social justice, intellectual freedom, literacy, and labyrinths. Her work with Friends and racial healing was born out of necessity as she navigates life as both a woman of African descent and a Friend. Regina Renee attends Detroit Friends Meeting and is a volunteer for Friends General Conference. She identifies as a Christian Friend and her favorite book in the Bible is James. Regina Renee’s go-to practical and spiritual resource is prayer. Her life verse is Micah 6:8, which says:

He has told you, O mortal, what is good;

    and what does the Lord require of you

but to do justice, and to love kindness,

    and to walk humbly with your God?

If you’re interested in attending the Gathering, keep in mind that there’s now a payment plan to budget for it. Payment Plan Registration opens November 17, 2025 and stays open until March 17, 2026. It is available for all full-time participants.