ICE Board

• Paul Neeley, President
  • Paul, a member of Artists in Christian Testimony, does ethnomusicology consulting with multiple missions and teaches at various schools including Dallas Baptist University.
• Frank Fortunato, Vice President
  • Frank is OM's International Music Director, coordinating Heart Sounds International, a ministry promoting indigenous worship through seminars,songwriting events, and recording of non-western worship, mostly in the restricted parts of the world. Frank has completed graduate studies in ethnomusicology and is involved in teaching on global worship music as well as leading worship at a local church. He recently co-authored All the World is Singing: Glorifying God Through the Worship Music of the Nations.
• Robin Harris, Coordinator
  • Robin served as a missionary for a decade in northern Russia as well as a number of years in Alaska and Canada. She is currently an ethnomusicology consultant for Heart Sounds International and a PhD student at University of Georgia Athens. Follow this link to a 96kb Adobe Acrobat PDF to read more about Robin.
• Jim Eriksen, Treasurer
  • James P. Eriksen, Vice President of Development Trinity Law School, J.D., M.A. International Human Rights; ThM candidate at Talbot Theological Seminary. Jim is Owner and CEO of Partners with Nonprofits; Owner and Principal of Law Offices of James P. Eriksen; Director and Counsel for American Liberties Institute; General Counsel for Pomona First Baptist (CA) and Thousand Pines Christian Camp. Jim's work includes consulting with nonprofits in areas of development, governance and legal issues. He also practices law in the areas of estate planning, charitable gifting, civil liberties and nonprofit law. Jim is married to his best friend, Debbie, and is father of two, Hannah Rose and Lily Sha.
    
• Brian Schrag, Chair - Certification Committee
  • Brian Schrag is head of SIL International's Ethnomusicology and Arts Group, and teaches at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (www.gial.edu). He has worked as an arts consultant in Central Africa, and holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology (UCLA). More information is available here.