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The AUC is made up of American Unitarians from across North America.  Our members are from many religious backgrounds, coming together to promote the American Unitarian tradition.  

Board of Directors

The American Unitarian Conference is incorporated in the Commonwealth of Virginia.  Our corporate office is located at: 6806 Springfield Dr., Mason Neck, VA  22079  The AUC is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization.

Please direct all official correspondance to the above address.

Please mail membership dues and requests for information to:
P.O. Box 331, Fenton, MI 48430-0331 Ph: 810-714-6087

To acces the AUC By-Laws, click here.

Directors Biographies

David R. Burton, President

Mr. Burton has participated in Unitarian congregations for a decade. He served as Treasurer and on the Board of Trustees of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota. He has delivered a number of lay sermons. He was most recently a member of the Sugarloaf Congregation of Unitarian Universalists.

Mr. Burton is an attorney and economist. He is a principal in the Argus Group, an Alexandria, Virginia based law and government relations firm. He is one of the country's leading advocates for fundamental tax reform. Mr. Burton has testified before Congress, appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs and written on tax policy matters in a wide variety of publications. He was previously employed as the Chief Financial Officer for New England Machinery and as Tax Manager of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

Dean C. Fisher, Treasurer

Mr. Fisher was born in 1956 in Iowa and was raised on a traditional farm.

Mr. Fisher has been a Unitarian since 1998.  He has served as a member of the board and as the Treasurer of Epiphany Community Church, UU, in Fenton, Michigan.  Mr. Fisher is active in its missions programs and organized trips to visit his churches Unitarian partner church in Transylvania in 1999 and 2000 and will visit them again in 2001. He has delivered lay sermons to numerous other congregations about his trips and the Hungarian Unitarians. 

Mr. Fisher was raised in a mainline Christian church and has been a Christian all his life, and now considers himself a Unitarian Christian, finding the Unitarian theology much more inspiring than more traditional Trinitarian Christian teachings.   Mr. Fishers love for the Unitarian faith inspired him to co-found the AUC with Mr. Burton.

Mr. Fisher is an electrical engineer by training with experience in microprocessor  systems design and electronic circuit design.  Mr. Fisher is currently employed as an account manager, selling automotive electronic products to major auto manufacturers in the Detroit area. 

Alan Cousin, Director

Alan Cousin comes to the AUC from a peripatetic spiritual journey: he was raised in the United Church of Christ, spent his teen and early adult years as a fundamentalist Baptist, and was later an Episcopalian. Today he occasionally attends King's Chapel in Boston, where he enjoys the unique combination of Unitarian theology and Anglican liturgy.

Mr. Cousin was born in Boston in 1959, received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1981, and followed that up with graduate study in administration and management. After many years in the government and nonprofit sectors, Mr. Cousin is now growing a consulting business, specializing in management consulting for nonprofits.

Nathan DeMay, Director

Past Board Members:

Paul Yonge, Director 2002-2003

Paul Yonge became a member of the AUC shortly after its formation. He has been active in a Congregationalist church and a Universalist congregation in the past. Since 2000, he has been engaged in graduate study of pastoral care and counseling at St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry in Rochester, New York. The Finger Lakes Fellowship was organized in 2001 by Yonge to serve as a resource ministry for the production and distribution of laity educational programs.

Since 1966, Yonge has been a career employee of the State of New York and is currently assigned to the Planning and Program Management group of the Transportation Department in Syracuse. Over the years, he has participated in the engineering and management of various telecommunications and broadcasting systems. He holds two masters degrees in environmental policy and in environmental and resource engineering. Yonge also holds graduate certificates in advanced public management and in information systems and telecommunications management. He is currently concluding a doctoral program at the State University of New York in environmental resource management.

Barbara Bachner, Director 2002-2003

Barbara and her husband, Irving Bachner, joined the Universalist Unitarian Church in Haverhill, MA in 1999. Upon learning of the founding of the AUC, they immediately joined the AUC and soon thereafter traveled from MA to VA to attend its first annual meeting.

Barbara is very active in her UU congregation where she presently serves on the Membership Committee and the Board of Trustees.

Barbara grew up in Alabama as the daughter of a Methodist minister. She is a retired medical secretary who appreciates having time now for volunteer work, craft projects, and digital photography.