Keni Nooner
Pronouns: she, her I am an ever-curious soul that thrives within spaces that value the power and art of gathering together. Raised in the heart of Texas with a southern rooted family on both sides (Louisiana and Arkansas), I’ve somehow managed to live and thrive in New York…
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Heidi Kim
Pronouns: she, her I was born in Seoul, Korea to parents who met and married in New York City as international students in the 1950s. They returned to Korea for several years, but then immigrated to the U.S. permanently when I was a baby, seeking greater economic and political stability…
Paige Ingram
Pronouns: she, her Paige Ingram (she/her) is a nomadic, Midwest-based organizer, strategist, facilitator, and creative person. She currently serves as a driver and designer of a process to frontload the strategy, culture, story, and structure of a national mass movement a Truth and Reconciliation process and Reparations in…
Chalice Overy
Pronouns: she/her Chalice is a spiritual practitioner steeped in the Black church tradition. Her ministry aims to make The Divine accessible, especially to those who find themselves on the margins of mainstream Christianity. She thrives in the areas of spiritual direction, conflict transformation and preaching, and has a…
Brandon Wrencher
Pronouns: he, him I'm from a Southern working-class family and small town in the Sandhills of North Carolina. Whatever good that I am and have done is because of the many strong Black women leaders in my extended family, church, and community. I am a life and love…
Malika Cox
Pronouns: she/her Malika is the author of the Flourish OKC Restorative Justice Learning Curriculum. She has been involved in human rights advocacy, peacebuilding dialogue, restorative justice practices, and ecumenical clergy work. She has been to the “Killing Fields” of Cambodia, spent time in Rwanda during the Gacaca courts,…
Apollonia Piña
Pronouns: she, her Apollonia Piña is an interdisciplinary researcher of Mvskoke, Xicana, Scots-Irish, and French lineage. Apollonia’s life as an indigenous activist started with her Native and Xicano parents and informs her work in academia and community involvement in Northeast Oklahoma. Presently, she is the Tulsa chapter organizer…
Lanny Peters
Pronouns: he, him, his I was born 13 months after the death of my parents’ first child, who was only four months old, so I was conceived in grief. My parents bought a little four room mill house with money inherited from my mother’s father, which…
Mamie Hillman
I am a wife, mother, grandmother, and a community grassroots organizer/advocate. My most recent active engagement has been completely restoring an African American Historical Home and repurposing it as the Greene County African American Museum, Inc. After twenty-five years of commitment to this project, the museum opened late…
Ben Katt
Ben Katt is the Associate Director of Religious Life & Social Healing at The On Being Project. He has spent over 15 years working at the intersection of spirituality, community, and social healing. After completing his M.Div, Ben moved to Seattle where he spent a decade launching and leading Awake,…
Edina Lekovic
For 15 years, Edina Lekovic has served as a leading voice on American Muslims and an inter-community builder between diverse faith traditions. Edina is a strategist, storyteller, and trainer who works in multi-faith spaces throughout the country. Through her work with the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), she has advocated…
Elena Mariscal
Elena Mariscal currently works as a Project Manager for Latin America for the first Google Impact Challenge held in 5 countries simultaneously. Previously, Elena worked with Crea to promote gender equality by teaching hard & soft skills to female entrepreneurs from vulnerable and marginalized areas in Mexico. She developed the…
Timothy Shriver
Timothy Shriver serves as the president of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, one of the nation’s largest full-time Catholic volunteer organizations and a pioneer in the service landscape for over 60 years. JVC engages passionate young people in vital service within marginalized communities while fostering their growth as leaders committed to…
Danya Shults
Danya Shults is the founder of Arq, a media company and community that helps anyone connect with Judaism in a relevant, inclusive, and convenient way. Arq offers aesthetically elevated and inviting content, products, and experiences that give people a meaningful and easy way to connect to all things Jewish. Previously,…
Victoria Stoyanova
Victoria Stoyanova is a community architect and founder of Glint — a practice focused on designing collaborative and interdisciplinary communities and ecosystems. Victoria works at the intersection of industries, ideas, and people. Her work is focused on magnifying the impact companies and individuals can have by designing new ways for…
Cesar Gonzalez
Cesar believes that for the first time in human history we have the real opportunity, the tools, and the will to build a world that works for everyone. As CEO of StartingBloc, he lives out this belief by supporting leaders of change to build the skills, the alliances, and the…
Anurag Gupta
Anurag is a sought-after expert on unconscious bias. A licensed attorney, an academic researcher, and a mindfulness expert, Anurag is the founder & CEO of Be More America, a social enterprise that trains professionals like physicians, business executives, and attorneys in proven tools to hack bias and unleash human potential.…
Jen Bailey
is Founder and Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network and serves on the staff of Greater Bethel AME Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Her first book, to be published in October 2021, is called, To My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss and Radical Hope.
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