David Bailey is a public theologian and founder and CEO of Arrabon, a nonprofit organization that cultivates Christian communities to pursue healing and reconciliation in a racially divided world. He is the co-author of the “Race, Class, and the Kingdom of God” study series and executive producer of the documentary 11am: Hope for America’s Most Segregated Hour and the Urban Doxology Project. He and his wife, Joy, attend East End Fellowship, where he serves on the preaching team.

Rev. Michael Battle has published nine books, including Reconciliation: the Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu, and Ubuntu: I in You and You in Me. In his PeaceBattle Institute he works on subjects of diversity, spirituality, prayer, race and reconciliation. He has served as pastor and spiritual director to hundreds of clergy and laity for CREDO for the Episcopal Church. He has also served as chaplain to Archbishop Tutu, Congressman John Lewis, the House of Bishops, and the Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops.

Rev. Karen Campbell is a pastor from Northern Ireland. After co-pastoring Church of the Servant (Grand Rapids, Michigan) for five years, she returned to Northern Ireland in 2023 to take up the post of good relations officer for the Irish Council of Churches. She is currently completing her doctorate in ministry, studying the virtue of humility in multicultural worshiping congregations.

Andrew DeCort received his PhD in religious and political ethics from the University of Chicago. He founded the Institute for Faith and Flourishing and co-founded the Neighbor-Love Movement, which together have reached over 20 million people with a message of nonviolent spirituality. He has taught ethics and theology at institutions in the U.S., Ethiopia, and Germany. Andrew is also the author of Flourishing on the Edge of Faith and Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning. His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, The Economist, and more.

Sami DiPasquale was born in Jordan, grew up in the Middle East, and has spent the last 24 years in the U.S. immersed in refugee resettlement, community development, and peace-building efforts. He holds a bachelor’s degree in sustainable development (interdisciplinary) from Wheaton College and an MBA from the University of Texas. He has served on the boards of the Christian Community Development Association and Micah Global, networks striving for flourishing communities free from poverty and injustice nationally and internationally.

Ainka Jackson is the founding Executive Director of the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth, and Reconciliation and Co-Executive Director of the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee—the largest annual Civil Rights commemoration. She is the co-creator of the Beyond Divide and Conquer racial equity training, and is a Level 3 Nonviolence trainer. A Spelman College and Vanderbilt Law graduate, she has spoken at the UN, has been featured in Essence for voter mobilization, and is an inaugural Obama USA leader.

Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley is an activist, scholar, author, teacher, and wisdom keeper of mixed white and Native American heritage who speaks on justice, faith, the earth, and Indigenous realities. He is the author of numerous books, including Becoming Rooted, Journey to Eloheh, and How Western Christianity Got It Wrong. He and his wife, Edith, co-sustain Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice and Eloheh Farm & Seeds outside Portland, Oregon.

Rev. Soong-Chan Rah has authored or coauthored over a half dozen, and many award-winning, books including: Prophetic Lament and Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery. Soong-Chan is on faculty at Fuller Seminary, Robert Boyd Munger Professor of Evangelism, and is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church. Soong-Chan’s work explores the biblical precedent of lament and its historical, faithful practices among God’s people, as well as its necessary role for the work of healing and reconciliation.

Sandra Maria Van Opstal, a second-generation Latina, is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Chasing Justice, a movement led by people of color to mobilize a lifestyle of faith and justice. She is an international speaker, author, and activist, recognized for her courageous work in pursuing justice and disrupting oppressive systems within the church. Sandra’s initiatives in holistic justice equip communities to practice biblical solidarity and mutuality within various social and cultural locations.

Christine Warner is the Director for the Matthew 25 Initiative, the Anglican efforts to companion the vulnerable, marginalized, and under-resourced communities in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Christine is also founder/director of Lumen, a non-profit ministry for spiritual direction. Along her journey she also taught writing at a small liberal arts college for 14 years. Having grown up in Central America during civil war and natural disasters, Christine’s experience as a third culture kid laces everything she does, seeing the world through the lens of God’s global people who will worship before the throne as every tribe and tongue and nation.