Shanti director stepping down
by Seth Hemmelgarn

Shanti Executive Director Kevin Burns
has announced his resignation.

Saying he loves his job but "it's time to move on," the executive director of Shanti, a San Francisco agency that offers services to people with life-threatening illnesses such as HIV/AIDS and breast cancer, last week announced his resignation.

Kevin Burns, who started volunteering with the agency 20 years ago after seeing people in his "chosen family" die from AIDS, announced his intentions to the board of directors earlier this month. He had been executive director more than three years.