Rev. Adam Russell Taylor currently serves as the vice president of advocacy at World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

Areas of Expertise

• Domestic and global poverty
• Faith and politics
• Social movements (i.e. civil rights and anti-apartheid)
• Global human rights
• U.S. foreign policy

Chris LaTondresse leverages his talents as a communicator, connector, and strategist to help world-changing organizations—from Minnesota to the Mississippi Delta, from East Africa to Eastern Europe to the Middle East—connect the dots between youth culture, faith-inspired activism, and advancing the common good.

Areas of Expertise

• Evangelical history
• Millennial generation studies
• U.S. politics
• Communications/public relations
• Web strategy

Kathy KyoungAh Khang is currently serving as a regional multiethnic ministries director with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF)/USA. Kathy is one of the authors of More Than Serving Tea (InterVarsity Press, 2006), and she continues to write on her personal blog More than Serving Tea.

 Areas of Expertise:

• The convergence of faith, gender, and ethnicity in Christianity
• Sexual ethics
• Women in the Bible
• Leadership and power
• Discipleship
• Evangelism

Lisa Sharon Harper, Sojourners’ director of mobilizing, was the founding executive director of New York Faith & Justice—an organization at the hub of a new ecumenical movement to end poverty in New York City. In that capacity, she helped establish Faith Leaders for Environmental Justice.

Areas of Expertise

• Shalom
• Systemic justice
• Racial reconciliation
• Immigration reform
• Environmental justice
• Personal wholeness

Mark Charles is a speaker, writer, and consultant from Fort Defiance, Ariz., located on the Navajo Reservation. The son of an American woman of Dutch heritage and a Navajo man, Mark seeks to understand the complexities of American history regarding race, culture, and faith in order to help forge a path of healing and reconciliation for the nation.

Areas of Expertise

• Gospel of Mark
• Racial reconciliation
• Native American/Navajo worship, culture, and empowerment
• Diversity
• Time perception

Onleilove (pronounced Onlylove) Alston was born and raised in East New York, Brooklyn. When she was 10, she felt led to pray and read the Bible though she was not raised in the church. Four years later she walked into a local National Baptist Church where she had a life-altering conversion experience.

Areas of Expertise

• Dr. Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign
• Lessons from Jesus and Dr. King for poor people’s organizing today
• Spirituality and social work
• Race and intentional communities
• Food justice for holistic health

Peggy Flanagan is a dynamic trainer, teacher, and community and political organizer with more than 10 years of experience in the progressive movement. She is enrolled in the White Earth Band of Ojibwe and is an urban Indian from the great city of Minneapolis. Her vocation is to ensure that Native American people are heard within all aspects of civic engagement: community organizing, electoral politics, and the creation of public policy.

Areas of Expertise

• Community organizing
• Native American civic engagement
• Electoral politics

Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah is the Milton B. Engebretson associate professor of church growth and evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago and the author of The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity (IVP Books, 2009) and Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church (Moody, 2010).

Areas of Expertise

• Racial justice
• Social justice
• Suffering theology
• Evangelism and justice
• Evangelicalism