Patrick Streiff has been engaged with the Methodist e-Academy from its beginning.  He continues to chair the e-Academy Board after having retired from service as bishop of the Central and Southern Europe episcopal area of the UMC from 2005 to 2023. While having more time for family, he is still engaged in strengthening Methodist theological education and historical publication.

Erika Stalcup began serving as Academic Coordinator in 2023.  She pastors a French-speaking Methodist church in Lausanne, Switzerland and is part-time lecturer at Cliff College.  Erika’s work in church and academia represents a bridge between historic faith and contemporary spirituality; academic theology and grassroots community; different languages and cultures; and institutional church and living community.

Susanne Schwarz started working as Administrative Coordinator for the Methodist e-Academy in 2023. Additionally, she works as an assistant and coordinator for a degree program at Reutlingen School of Theology. She retired from her job as program manager in IT industry in 2018 and now enjoys supporting the e-Academy and Reutlingen School of Theology students with a part time assignment. Susanne loves to organize and structure processes that make things easy to handle.