Deanna Tirrell is an elementary public-school librarian and has been a member of All Souls for over 20 years. She taught in the CRE program and served on the board of the Children's and Youth Choirs for 10 years. She has been indispensable in the progression of All Souls ACTION, which she leads, and the Community Resource Bank, where she serves as co-chair. She has worked with Voting is Power, serves on the board of the Justice Council, and has been known to pull a few weeds in the garden. When she takes a break, you will find her on a trail or near the water, probably with a few dogs along. She likes reading late into the night, cooking now and then, and growing flowers for butterflies. She enjoys spending time with her children and grandchildren, and taking road trips with her husband.

Eileen Kenney started regularly attending All Souls in 2002 and became a member a few years later. She has volunteered within the church in various capacities including Children’s Religious Education’s Sunday School and Children’s & Youth Choir. She served as a past-chair and member of the Care Team for many years and is currently a Helping Soul. Eileen works as Associate Vice President of Enrollment and Retention at Tulsa Community College. Eileen’s daughter, Katherine, was raised at Channing Day School and All Souls. Eileen and her husband, Bill Ivy, enjoy traveling, gardening and being bossed around by their two obstinate cats.

Phil Haney is second generation All Souls. His service at church has included heading the Newcomers’ Committee, ushering, participating in a minister’s personal committee, and writing for Simple Gifts. Phil’s job as a trustee is to improve board governance and oversee church legal compliance. Phil practices charity, nonprofit and philanthropic law with clients including churches, public charities, private foundations, humanitarian organizations, schools, and individual philanthropists. Phil attended Tulsa public schools and received a master’s degree in taxation from NYU law school.
Phil is active in the Tulsa charitable community and taught Entrepreneurial Philanthropy as an adjunct professor at TU. Phil is a member of several charity boards in Tulsa.
Phil and his partner, Myra, live in a remote and secluded area, surrounded by the sounds, sights and music of nature, sunsets, moonrises and wildlife. Phil and Myra enjoy entertaining at home and finding ways to share their lives with friends.
Hobbies and interests are reading, traveling, speaking, teaching, and discovering ways to stay fit, including yoga and field sports. Phil has an adult daughter, Diane, and Myra has four great-grandchildren.

A fourth-generation Oklahoman, Shirley Vincent comes from a long line of pioneers and community builders. Her great-grandparents, American Ann and George Washington Franklin, homesteaded near Elk City in Western Oklahoma, originally living in a sod house after a journey that took them from Kentucky to Texas, Washington State, and finally Oklahoma—by covered wagon, train, and boat. Her grandfather later moved to Tulsa, where he taught industrial arts at Rogers High School—a man remembered for his incredible ability to make and fix just about anything. Her father served in the Air National Guard and later became a civil servant in Claremore, while her mother was deeply involved in Girl Scout leadership and ran her own business. Together, they raised three daughters with a wide array of practical skills and a strong sense of curiosity.

Her own career has followed a dynamic path. With roots in biology, she began as a research biologist and university instructor at the University of Tulsa and Tulsa Community College. She then shifted into science media production, creating educational videos for K–12 students, and co-founded an internet startup that distributed those videos and supported other media producers. Driven by a lifelong love of learning, she later returned to OSU to earn a PhD in environmental science.

For over a decade, she served as an education researcher and evaluation expert for the National (now Global) Council for Science and the Environment in Washington, D.C., working remotely from Oklahoma. Today, she runs her own consulting company—vincentconsult.com—which provides evaluation and applied research services for higher education and science projects funded by the National Science Foundation and other major foundations. Her work connects her with cutting-edge research teams across the U.S. and internationally.

She has been a dedicated member of All Souls Unitarian Church since 2006. Her service has included chairing the Religious Education Committee, participating in the Green Team and Building Committee, helping organize public events on climate change, and giving presentations for the Day Alliance. She is also an active member of Helping Souls, and considers All Souls her spiritual home and community.

She lives a rich and connected life, maintaining close relationships with her two sisters, their families, and her ex-stepchildren and grandchildren. An avid lover of animals (even gently escorting spiders back outdoors), she finds joy in travel—particularly nature and adventure travel—along with horseback riding, kayaking, hiking, cycling, the arts, and lifelong learning. A devoted follower of national and world news, she thrives on staying engaged with the ever-evolving world around her.

Ros Elder and her husband, Jim Elder, have been devoted members of All Souls Unitarian Church for over 20 years. Throughout that time, she has actively contributed to the church community in numerous ways, including serving as Program Chair of the Evening Alliance, ushering as part of the Welcoming Team, leading as an ESL teacher for the Refugee Support Team, and serving on the ACTION Core Team.

Her commitment to service extends well beyond the church. She currently serves as President of the Friends of the Library Board and has volunteered with the library’s Literacy and English Language Learning (ELL) services since 2002, both as a tutor and a trainer of new tutors. She also led workshops through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and, alongside Jim, hosted international visitors through the Tulsa Global Alliance for many years. Together, they also serve as Senior Mentors for students at the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Professionally, she dedicated 27 years to public education as a learning disabilities (LD) teacher. Since retiring, she has continued making an impact through entrepreneurship as the owner of Total Pilates Studio in Brookside, which is now celebrating its 24th year.

She is the proud mother of two daughters, Lisa and Laura, and grandmother to four grandchildren: Alex, Brendan, Jake, and Spencer. Her life is marked by a deep commitment to learning, service, and fostering meaningful connections across generations and cultures.

Dr. Chad Johnson became a member of All Souls with his family in 2007. He volunteered in childcare, participated in Sunday Circles, regularly attended Wednesday Night Connections, and led adult education programs such as Healing From Fundamentalism and REWIRED. He worked with Barbara Prose and Shannon Boston to develop the initial curriculum for REWIRED. Currently, he facilitates the Healing and Holding Grief support group. Dr. Johnson is a psychology professor at The University of Oklahoma in the Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. He has published scholarly work in spirituality and psychotherapy, meditation, transpersonal psychology, phenomenology, social justice, and group psychotherapy. Dr. Johnson is also a licensed psychologist. He provides psychotherapy and consulting for individuals, families, and organizations. He has extensive training in trauma and somatic therapies; Jungian, existential, and transpersonal psychology; and group psychotherapy. He recently completed a certification in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy and is receiving certification in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy and Research from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).
Dr. Johnson is a hobby enthusiast having tried his hand at fly fishing, motorcycling, tobacco pipe smoking and collecting, watch collecting, target shooting, hiking, bird watching, and so on. He has traveled extensively around the world beginning with 6 months of study abroad in China while in college. Dr. Johnson married his lovely and talented wife, Emily Turner, at All Souls officiated by former minister, Barbara Prose. Emily is a long-time member of All Souls and previously served on the CRE board. She is an attorney for the Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice. They share 4 children--Austyn, Gabriel, Roman, and Eisen--a dog, Ruth, and two cats, Mysty and Gromit.