Betty Cooney

Since 2000, Betty Cooney has been serving as the Communication Director, Health-Projects Coordinator and the Southern California Conference representative for ASI, an organization of Adventist business owners. She is also a member of the Interreligious Council of Southern California and of the Christian Muslim Consultative Group in Los Angeles. While in New York, she served as communication director of the Greater New York Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. She represented the Adventist church on the Electronic Media Committee of the National Council of Churches and on Religion in American Life and was a member of the Religion Communicators Council. From 1997-1998, she served as associate director and communication director for the NET ’98 Bible satellite series, broadcasting worldwide in 40 languages and, in 1999, as satellite coordinator for a similar series, broadcasting internationally from New York City. She has a married son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren living in the Los Angeles area; and a daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter living in Seattle. Betty is a graduate of the church’s Atlantic Union College in Massachusetts, with a major in English and a minor in German. Hiking, Times crossword puzzles, people and developing special projects are particular interests for her. She has served in communication/public relations for the Seventh-day Adventist church for more than 30 years. Because Seventh-day Adventists strongly believe in freedom of religion for all peoples, she has been active in promoting the church’s religious liberty events.