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Anita Giardina Lee is passionate to amplify and celebrate the voices of women in the church: past, present, and future. When she’s not tending to her young family or working with the team at Boundless Enterprise, she is excitedly researching the legacy of Discipleship women have in the history of Christianity and dreaming up ways we can be the church Jesus intended us to be.

Inés Velásquez-McBryde is a pastor, preacher, reconciler, and speaker. She is so-lead pastor of The Church We Hope For, a multiethnic church planted in Pasadena, California during the 2020 pandemic. She is originally from Nicaragua. Ines earned her MDiv at Fuller Theological Seminary. Ines has been married to Rob for nineteen years and loves being a soccer mom to their son, Nash.

Aaron White is the author of Recovering: From Brokenness and Addiction to Blessedness and Community. He teaches at Westminster Theological Centre and, with his family, has served in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for the past twenty years.

Scot Mcknight (PhD, University of Nottingham) is a world-renowned speaker, writer, professor, and equipper of the church. He is a recognized authority on the historical Jesus, early Christianity, and the New Testament. His books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Russian, and Portuguese. He is the author of The Jesus Creed, The Blue Parakeet, The King Jesus Gospel, Revelation for the Rest of Us, numerous commentaries, and is now writing a sixteen-volume series of reflections called The Everyday Bible Study. Scot blogs on Substack and hosts the Kingdom Roots podcast.

Jo Saxton is a speaker, podcaster, leadership coach, and author of numerous books. She is the founder of Ezer Collective - an initiative dedicated to investing in women leaders and equipping them to own their voice and boldly step into their calling. She also serves at Bethel University as the executive director of The 25th, which focuses on emerging women leaders across industries as they launch their careers.

Dr. Mimi Haddad currently serves as president of CBE International. A graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Summa Cum Laude) , she holds a PhD in historical theology from the University of Durham, England. Palmer Theological Seminary recognized Dr. Haddad with an Honorary Doctor of Divinity in 2013. Dr. Haddad is a founding member of Evangelicals & Women at the Evangelical Theological Society, and has served as a gender and theological consultant for many organizations.

Lori Anne Thompson holds a B.Sc. in kinesiology from Queen’s University and a master’s in child advocacy and policy from Montclair State University. She serves the survivor community through speaking, writing, and her professional work. A member of Alpha Epsilon Lambda Society, she works as a registered kinesiologist and an intake specialist for a survivor-centric law firm. Lori Anne is dedicated to her family, continuing education, and empowering fellow survivors.

Mandy Smith is pastor of St. Lucia Uniting Church, Brisbane, Australia and the author of several books. Her latest book, Confessions of an Amateur Saint: The Christian Leader’s Journey from Self-Sufficiency to Reliance on God, will be released in October 2024. Mandy and her husband, a New Testament professor, live in a little house where the teapot is always warm.

Alan Hirsch is an award-winning author and co-founder of Movement Leaders Collective, Forge Missional Training Network, and 5Q Collective. He works globally, primarily in North America, Europe, and Australia, as a mentor for NewThing International and a consultant for Redeemer City to City. His expertise includes leading church movements, developing missional leadership training, and overseeing mission work.

Janet Munn is a leader, author, speaker, and mentor, focused on empowering the next generation of leaders, especially women and girls. She has served as director of the International Social Justice Commission for the Salvation Army, and has written and co-written several books. Janet has worked for justice and formation locally and globally for more than thirty years.

Bob Ekblad is co-founder, along with his wife Grace, of Tierra Nueva and The People’s Seminary in Burlington, Washington. He holds a ThD in Old Testament from the Institut Protestant de Théologie in Montpellier, France. He is the author of multiple books and he pastors at Tierra Nueva, offering training around the world and online through The People’s Seminary.

Angela Lam is co-founder of Hagar’s Voice, a nonprofit supporting survivors of clergy sexual abuse and offering training for religious organizations looking to prevent abuse. Angela has twenty-years’ experience as a pastor and now works as an entrepreneur incubating & supporting nonprofits that work at the intersection of faith & justice.

Beth Allison Barr is the James Vardaman Professor of History at Baylor University. She earned her PhD in Medieval History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the bestselling author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth. She is also a pastor’s wife and mom of two great kids.

Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Rios, an Afro-Boricua from Manhattan now living in South Florida, is the founder of Passion2Plant, a national church planting network training leaders to start justice-oriented churches. An author and contributor, her latest work is Rhythms of Rest: 40 Devotions for Women on the Move. Dr. Rios has been married to Hiram for thirty-four years and has two sons, Samuel and DJ, who transitioned to heaven in 2022.

Dr. Oneya Fennell Okuwobi is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Cincinnati. Together with her husband, Dele, Oneya planted 21st Century Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she also serves as a teaching pastor. She is co-author of Multiethnic Conversations: An Eight-Week Journey toward Unity in Your Church and Multiethnic Conversations for Kids.

Dr. Tammy Dunahoo is an ordained minister with more than forty years of ministry leadership experience. She is the executive dean of Portland Seminary of George Fox University, where she also earned her doctorate. Tammy has spent twenty years leading at the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Los Angeles, overseeing numerous teams and ministries, church planting, and serving the network across all fifty states.

Carolyn Whatley is the Team Lead for Activism at Hagar’s Voice, an organization strategically supporting people impacted by clergy sexual abuse. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and spiritual director who engages in justice initiatives through a decolonizing, anti-racist lens in hopes of cultivating equitable and safe communities.

Mariah Humphries is a Mvskoke Nation citizen, writer, and speaker. She is the Executive Director for The Center for Formation, Justice and Peace, an interdenominational organization cultivating the character necessary to pursue peace through kingdom justice in the manner of Jesus. With more than twenty-five years of vocational ministry service and a master’s degree in theology, she challenges and encourages the American church to lead at the intersection of faith and justice.

Meghann Jaeger is an entrepreneur, business owner, wife, mother of two, and voice for the exploited. She is based out of Vancouver, Canada, where she works in fund development for a global charity that works with survivors of human trafficking, and she runs her own businesses - The Intersection: Fair Trade and Your Story Coffee.

Lisa Rodriguez-Watson serves as the National Director of Missio Alliance and a pastor at Christ City Church. For nearly two decades, Lisa’s heart to see people reconciled to God and to one another has led her to invest her life and family in various roles within collegiate ministry, international missions, immigration advocacy, community development, and urban church planting. A proud Cuban-American, Lisa writes, speaks and leads at the intersection of formation, justice and mission. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and three kids.

Rev. Dr. Julie Faith Parker is a Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary and the Biblical Scholar in Residence at Marble Collegiate Church, both in New York City. She holds a PhD in Old Testament/Hebrew Bible from Yale University. An ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, she has served as a congregational pastor and campus minister. She has taught as a Bible professor at multiple institutions and written or edited many scholarly articles and books, including, most recently, Eve isn’t Evil: Feminist Readings of the Bible to Upend our Assumptions

Dr. Natasha Sistrunk Robinson is the president and CEO of T3 Leadership Solutions, Inc., and visionary founder of Leadership LINKS, Inc. She is a Naval Academy graduate with advanced degrees from Gordon-Conwell and North Park Theological Seminaries. With over twenty years of leadership and mentoring experience, she is an esteemed thought leader, international speaker, certified executive coach, and consultant. Dr. Robinson is the author of several books and hosts A Sojourner’s Truth podcast. She honorably served as a Marine Corps officer, reaching the rank of captain, and worked for the Department of Homeland Security.