Braver Angels

Rev. Susan B Vergeront is a retired pastor, and state co-director of Braver Angels Wisconsin.  She received her BS degree in Political Science from UW Madison in 1967 and her Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1985.

Susan worked as a researcher for the Legislative Council after graduation from UW. She went on to work in Public Relations before running for the Wis. State Assembly in 1984.  She served five terms, leaving politics for ministry.  She served Presbyterian Churches in Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa.  She says, “we can pass all the laws and rule, but if peoples hearts are not right to follow them, then we have chaos. Susan belongs to the Rotary Club of Waunakee and is a former member of the Cedarburg Grafton Sunrise Rotary Club.

Cameron Swallow is the Blue co-coordinator for Braver Angels in the state of Wisconsin.  She has been moderating BA workshops since 2018 and is currently working with the Music and Arts committee for the national organization.  She is from Tennessee originally and moved to Kenosha, WI, in 2017 when her husband became president of Carthage College.  She teaches middle schoolers in an after-school program, serves on several local volunteer boards, and plays with the bluegrass band, Flat Creek Highway.  

She is not a Rotarian,  but she was the faculty sponsor of the Interact Club at Grundy Co High School in Tennessee.