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Ideal for photographers, painters, sculptors, digital artists, and artists of other modalities to integrate justice and faith into their art.
Ideal for individuals interested in leading or pursuing a career in organizing for change; transforming congregations and communities.
Ideal for leaders from varied disciplines, therapists, those in helping professions, spiritual formation or discipleship pastors or leaders.
Ideal for emerging writers who wants to explore a writing career (fiction or nonfiction) or new writers with less than three years of experience in the field.
Ideal for the established writer who wants to take their writing to the next level in a mentor and peer environment.
Ideal for individuals interested in furthering their activism and understanding of policy to enact change on the community and national level.
Ideal for pastors, men and women, in local churches looking for mentorship by a facilitator of color on their pastoral journey.
Ideal for emerging and intermediate poets who want to stretch and grow in their poetry skills.
Ideal for women in church, para-church, nonprofit ministry, or missionaries.
Ideal for worship leaders at any stage of their development.
Afrika Afeni Mills, MEd, is the Founder and CEO of Continental Drift, LLC, Education Consultant, Adjunct Professor at Boston College, and author of Open Windows, Open Minds: Developing Antiracist, Pro-Human Students. Her TED-Ed Talk, Four Ways to Have Healthy Conversations About Race has over 1 million views. Afrika has been an educator and involved in ministry since 1999, leads the discipleship ministry in her faith community, and is part of Transforming Center’s spiritual formation community.
Arielle is the Co-Author of two self-published collections of poetry: Vagabonds and Zealots (2014), Write Bloody Spill Pretty (2017) which can both be found on Amazon.com and in 2016, released her EP of poetry and music titled Symphony of a Lioness. In March 2023, Estoria released her first solo book of poetry titled, THE UNFOLDING an invitation to come home to yourself, with Harper One available wherever books, e-books and audiobooks are available.
Rev. Dr. Catherine Gilliard currently serves as Superintendent of the Evangelical Covenant Church’s Southeast Conference and an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary. She has served as the only African American member of many of the denomination’s leadership boards, commitees, and commissions. In her last pastorate, before her current call, she served as co-pastor of New Life Covenant Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
Chanté Griffin is a contributing writer for The Washington Post, Faithfully Magazine, and L.A. Parent. Her articles, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous other publications. She is an advocate who uses media and the arts to advocate for the issues such as race and faith.
For almost 25 years, Danielle's voice has been ushering the global church into the presence of God through captivating worship experiences and inspiring messages. She's led worship across continents, from New York to New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Morocco, and beyond. Rooted in her hometown of New York, Danielle continues to share her gift nationwide alongside her husband, Andre Johnson. Beyond touring, she actively serves in her local church and spearheads her para-church organization, Worship In My City.
Dea Jenkins is an award winning interdisciplinary artist originally from Houston, Texas. Dea's art practice spans multiple fields, including visual art, performance, and film. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is currently developing multiple multimedia projects. She has a dual master's degree from Fuller Seminary with an emphasis in Theology and the Arts. In addition to her art practice, Dea is also an independent curator and the Director of the Inbreak Collective.
Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard’s latest book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege won the Englewood Review of Books 2021 Book of the Year award.
Rev. Dr. Fredrick Johnson, Sr., serves as senior pastor at First Genesis Baptist Church in Rochester, NY. Under his pastoral leadership, the First Genesis Baptist Church has experienced membership and spiritual growth. Dr. Johnson has participated in every facet of church ministry with a passion for evangelism, teaching, preaching, and community building. He earned a Doctor of Ministry (2007) and his Masters of Divinity (2001) from Northeastern Seminary and his MBA (1994) from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Jenai Auman is a Filipina American writer, artist, and author of Othered. She draws from her years in church leadership as well as her trauma-informed training to write on healing, hope, and the way forward. She received her bachelor's degree in behavioral health science and is currently pursuing a master's in spiritual formation at Northeastern Seminary. Jenai lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Tyler, and their sons, Quinn and Graham.
Guesnerth Josué Perea serves as Executive Director of the afrolatin@ forum, Co-Curator of the AfroLatine Theology Project, Co-Producer of the documentary "Faith in Blackness: An Exploration of AfroLatine Spirituality”, Co-Host of the podcast Majestad Prieta, and Associate Pastor at Metro Hope Church. His perspectives on AfroLatinidad have been part of various publications including the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Sojourners & he has written for Let Spirit Speak! Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora, the Revista de Estudios Colombianos, & Engaging Religion among others.
Michael Stalcup is a Thai American poet living in Bangkok, Thailand. His poems have been published by over thirty magazines and anthologies including Commonweal Magazine, Ekstasis Magazine, First Things, Red Letter Christians, Sojourners, and Biola University’s Lent Project. Since 2020, Michael has co-led Spirit & Scribe, a workshop helping writers to integrate spiritual formation and writing craft. You can follow him on Instagram @michaelstalcup and find all of his published work at michaelstalcup.com.
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