Dennae Pierce is Executive Director of the Surge Network, a movement of local churches partnered together to put Jesus on display in Arizona. She is a graduate of Covenant Theological Seminary and serves as one of the Co-Directors for City to City North America. Dennae is married to Vermon, the lead pastor at Roosevelt Community Church in Phoenix and they have four children: Marcel, Mya, Judah, and Jovanna.

Edward is a Chinese American graphic designer, musician, and brand strategist born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. In his daily artwork on Instagram, his music as Kaptivated, and his professional work as Lead Designer at Braintrust Creative, he wields creativity as a powerful tool to manifest God's divine peace in a chaotic world. Connect with him at @edwardcreates on all social platforms.

Fred Sprinkle is an LA-based director and motion designer. He’s got an eye for the big-picture, a knack for problem-solving, and over a decade of experience leading teams and working freelance. And yes, Sprinkle is is real last name. See more of his work at https://windvanefilms.com/

Josue Carballo Huertas is a husband, a designer, and a cat dad. Originally from Costa Rica, he moved to the United States in 2015.

Michael Stalcup is a biracial Thai American missionary living in Bangkok, Thailand. His poetry has been published in Sojourners Magazine, First Things, Faithfully Magazine, and more. He co-leads Spirit & Scribe, a workshop integrating spiritual formation and writing craft. Read more of his poetry at michaelstalcup.com

Mondo Scott is a co-founder of PAX and served as its creative director for five years. His other creative side hustles include design, photography and mentoring urban youth in the digital arts at AMP Los Angeles, where he serves on the Board of Directors. He also serves on the pastoral team at Ecclesia Hollywood in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife Salena and daughter Selah.

Niyi Adeogun is a visual artist, graphic designer and design engineer based in PE, Canada. Niyi has been involved in project management and execution, creating community-driven events, which led to starting his brand/design studio named ZeroResistance Studios. He also helps brands develop their identities by providing design services and advice based on his experience in creating logos, style guides, startup branding kits, design libraries, social media assets, conceptual and modern art.

Andrea Smith is a cofounder of Evangelicals 4 Justice and a board member of the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies. She is currently chair of the ethnic studies department at UC Riverside. Her books include Conquest, Native Americans and the Christian Right, and Unreconciled.

Dr. Andrew Rillera joined the movement in 1999 when he left the Jehovah’s Witnesses and accepted the triune God revealed in Jesus Christ. Andrew finds Pax by playing games with his family, reading, playing ice hockey and disc golf, and finding solitude. He has a bachelor's in biblical studies from Eternity Bible College, an MA in theology and ministry from Fuller Seminary, and a PhD in New Testament from Duke University. He is assistant professor of biblical studies and theology at The King's University in Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada. He co-wrote Fight: A Christian Case for Nonviolence with Preston Sprinkle (now retitled as Nonviolence: The Revolutionary Way of Jesus) and is currently writing a book titled Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’s Death. He and his wife, Karianne, and their two kids, Eden and Zion, live in Edmonton, Alberta.

Cole Arthur Riley is a writer and liturgist who serves as the Content and Spiritual Formation Manager for a Center for Christian Studies at Cornell University called Chesterton House. She is the creator and writer of Black Liturgies, a project seeking to integrate the truths of Black dignity, lament, justice, and liberation into written prayer. She is currently working on a book with Penguin Random House to be released in 2022.

Dennae Pierce is Executive Director of the Surge Network, a movement of local churches partnered together to put Jesus on display in Arizona. She is a graduate of Covenant Theological Seminary and serves as one of the Co-Directors for City to City North America. Dennae is married to Vermon, the lead pastor at Roosevelt Community Church in Phoenix and they have four children: Marcel, Mya, Judah, and Jovanna.

Soldier turned Peacemaker, Diana heard God’s call to love her enemies in the most unlikely space: on the battlefield of the Iraq war. Diana is an activist, veteran, sexual assault nurse, and relentless practitioner of peace. Whether speaking across the country or in Iran and Iraq or at her son’s middle school in Minnesota, she empowers us to identify political or religious divides to cross our own “enemy lines” in order to wage peace. Because God’s justice and joy cannot wait. Diana is the founder of Waging Peace Project. Her book, Waging Peace: One Soldier’s Story of Putting Love First, was Amazon’s new release in war and peace. She lives on Ojibwa land on the shores of Lake Superior. Her family is woven together through adoption and a shared love of bad jokes and competitive card games.

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 also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard’s forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture’s Call to Leverage Privilege comes out in August.

Drew Strait teaches New Testament at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. His writing focuses on peace/peacemaking in early Christianity, along with the arts of discursive resistance among early Jewish and Christian communities. He is a member of Keller Park Church in South Bend, IN.

Jean Nangwala is a singer, speaker, creator and survivor-advocate. She was born and raised in Lusaka, Zambia. Her passion for social justice stems from her personal experience of injustice and witnessing the same inequality across the globe.

Kayla White was born in Nashville, TN but now lives outside of Atlanta, GA. She is a graduate of LaGrange College, where she studied Art and Design with a minor in Servant Leadership. She believes that “art has the power to bring people together, communicate messages of hope, and help people see different perspectives.” Kayla recently joined the Love Beyond Walls team, helping to lead and advocate for people experiencing homelessness. She loves using creativity in a way that humanizes the vulnerable and believes that people who are overlooked should be seen and given a second chance. Kayla uses her faith to be a guiding presence in helping others and believes that anyone who has a heart for the poor should seek ways to be a better servant of humanity. Her hope is to help create a better tomorrow, where people can see others for who they are and not their situations. Kayla is a believer, loves to travel, try new foods, and learn new languages. She hopes to truly become what her enneagram number suggests, “The Advocate."

Mariah Humphries is a Mvskoke, Christian, writer, and educator. Navigating the tension between native and white American culture, she brings native awareness to non-Native spaces. With over twenty years of ministry service, she also focuses on racial reconciliation within the American Church.

Nikole Lim is a speaker, educator, and consultant on leveraging dignity through the restorative art of storytelling. Author of Liberation is Here, Nikole shifts paradigms on how stories are told by platforming voices of the oppressed—sharing stories of beauty arising out of seemingly broken situations. Her heart beats for young women whose voices are silenced by oppression and desires to see every person realize the transformative power of their own story. In 2010, Nikole founded Freely in Hope, an organization that equips survivors and advocates to lead in ending the cycle of sexual violence in Kenya and Zambia. Nikole has been deeply transformed by the powerful, tenacious, and awe-inspiring examples of survivors. Their audacious dreams have informed her philosophy for a survivor-led approach to community transformation.

Rachel Held Evans was an American Christian columnist, blogger and author. Her book A Year of Biblical Womanhood was a New York Times bestseller in e-book non-fiction, and Searching for Sunday was a New York Times bestseller nonfiction paperback.

Taylor S. Schumann is a survivor of the April 2013 shooting at a college in Christiansburg, Virginia. She is a writer and activist whose writing has appeared in Christianity Today, Sojourners, and Fathom. She is a contributor to If I Don't Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings. Taylor and her family live in Charleston, South Carolina.

Terence Lester is a minister, speaker, community activist, author, and founder of Love Beyond Walls, a not-for-profit organization focused on poverty awareness and community mobilization. His campaigns on behalf of the poor, including #LoveSinksIn (which provides handwashing stations for the poor) have been featured in USA Today, Black Enterprise, Essence, and Reader's Digest. They have been viewed by millions of people globally on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS News, NBC, Upworthy, and "The Bright Side" with Katie Couric. He was named by Coca-Cola as one of their History Shakers. Terence has delivered countless sermons and speeches at conferences, churches, and schools around the country. He has served on the ministry staffs of Word of Faith in Austell, Georgia, New Life Presbyterian Church in College Park, Georgia, and is a communicator at West Ridge Church. His books include I See You, Getting Past Stuck, Simple Prayers for Hurting People, and Identity Theft. He has also co-produced a biographical documentary based on his book The U-Turn Project: Answering the Call. Terence has also received numerous awards for his community activism including the Empire Board of Realtists Distinguished Service Award (2017), SCLC Social Advocacy Award (2016), Atlanta Voice's 50 under 50 honor (2016), the True to Atlanta Award presented by the Atlanta Hawks (2016), and the Fulton County Schools Service Award (2015). He and his wife, Cecilia, and their family live in Atlanta.

Drew Hart is an assistant professor of theology at Messiah University and has 10 years of pastoral experience. He is the Program Director of Messiah University's Thriving Together: Congregations for Racial Justice program and co-host of Inverse Podcast. Hart is the author of Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism (2016) and Who Will Be A Witness?: Igniting Activism for God's Justice, Love, and Deliverance (2020). He was the recipient of bcmPEACE’s 2017 Peacemaker Award, the 2019 W.E.B. Du Bois Award in Harrisburg, PA, and was Elizabethtown College’s 2019 Peace Fellow. Drew and his family live in Harrisburg, PA. (Twitter & Instagram @DruHart).

Jean Nangwala is a singer, speaker, creator and survivor-advocate. She was born and raised in Lusaka, Zambia. Her passion for social justice stems from her personal experience of injustice and witnessing the same inequality across the globe.

Michelle Reyes (PhD) is the Co-Executive Director of Pax and the Vice President of the Asian American Christian Collaborative. She is also the Scholar-in-Residence at Hope Community Church, a minority-led multicultural church in East Austin, Texas, where her husband, Aaron, serves as lead pastor. Michelle's work on faith and culture has been featured in Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, Missio Alliance, Faithfully Magazine and more. Her forthcoming book on cross-cultural relationships is called Becoming All Things: How Small Changes Lead to Lasting Connections Across Cultures (Zondervan; April 27, 2021). Follow Michelle on Twitter and Instagram.

Nikole Lim is a speaker, educator, and consultant on leveraging dignity through the restorative art of storytelling. Author of Liberation is Here, Nikole shifts paradigms on how stories are told by platforming voices of the oppressed—sharing stories of beauty arising out of seemingly broken situations. Her heart beats for young women whose voices are silenced by oppression and desires to see every person realize the transformative power of their own story. In 2010, Nikole founded Freely in Hope, an organization that equips survivors and advocates to lead in ending the cycle of sexual violence in Kenya and Zambia. Nikole has been deeply transformed by the powerful, tenacious, and awe-inspiring examples of survivors. Their audacious dreams have informed her philosophy for a survivor-led approach to community transformation.

Nya Abernathy is a public educator and curriculum designer focusing on social-emotional health and unity-oriented peacemaking at her company, The Dignity Effect. Her overarching goal is to guide people with grace, accountability, and hope into relational wellbeing that is anchored in dignity.

Shane Claiborne is a prominent speaker, activist, and best-selling author. Shane worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, and founded The Simple Way in Philadelphia. He heads up Red Letter Christians, a movement of folks who are committed to living "as if Jesus meant the things he said." Shane is a champion for grace which has led him to jail advocating for the homeless, and to places like Iraq and Afghanistan to stand against war. Now grace fuels his passion to end the death penalty and help stop gun violence. Shane’s books include Jesus for President, Red Letter Revolution, Common Prayer, Follow Me to Freedom, Jesus, Bombs and Ice Cream, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, Executing Grace, his classic The Irresistible Revolution, and his newest book, Beating Guns. He has been featured in a number of films including "Another World Is Possible" and "Ordinary Radicals." His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Shane speaks over one hundred times a year, nationally and internationally. His work has appeared in Esquire, SPIN, Christianity Today, TIME, and The Wall Street Journal, and he has been on everything from Fox News and Al Jazeera to CNN and NPR. He’s given academic lectures at Harvard, Princeton, Liberty, Duke, and Notre Dame. Shane speaks regularly at denominational gatherings, festivals, and conferences around the globe.