Mrs. Helen Spector joined the Board of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions (CPWR) in 1990 to help plan the 1993 Parliament Centenary Celebration. She has been active with the organization ever since, a leading ‘behind the scenes person’ making the Parliament’s huge global gatherings succeed. She served as co-chair for the site-selection task forces for the 2004, 2009 and 2014 Parliament events. She now lives in Portland, Oregon and continues as a trustee of the Council. As a professional facilitator and organizational development consultant, Mrs. Spector uses her skills to further the values and goals of CPWR, and she enjoys a reputation in religious circles as a transformational change agent specializing in denominational and judicatorial bodies from different traditions.