Speakers

Dr. Daniel G. Bagby
Theodore F. Adams Professor of Pastoral Care
Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond

Daniel Bagby has pastored for almost thirty years, served in two pastoral counseling centers, and as chaplain to a juvenile detention center and a women's prison. He is a frequent national speaker on pastoral care issues and has authored numerous articles and seven books including, Crisis Ministry: A Handbook and Beyond The Myths: The Journey To Adulthood (2007). He has taught at Baylor University, Purdue University, and Southern Seminary, as well as for the International Mission Board's Journeyman Training Program. He is the 2005 recipient of the Wayne Oates Award. 

 

Rev. David Beckmann
President, Bread for the World & Bread for the World Institute
The Alliance to End Hunger

David Beckmann is one of the foremost U.S. advocates for hungry people. He has been president of Bread for the World for 15 years, leading large-scale and successful campaigning to strengthen U.S. political commitment to overcoming hunger and poverty.  Before that, he served at the World Bank for 15 years, overseeing large projects and driving innovations to make the Bank more effective in reducing poverty. Beckmann is also president of Bread for the World Institute, which does research and education on hunger-related issues, including agriculture and trade policy.  He founded and serves as president of the Alliance to End Hunger. In 2005, Beckmann delivered the prestigious McDougall Lecture at the biannual meeting of the FAO Conference.  

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Kim Bobo
Executive Director
Interfaith Worker Justice

In 1996, Kim Bobo founded Interfaith Worker Justice, the leading national organization that mobilizes religious support for low-wage workers and rebuilds partnerships with the labor movement.  IWJ has created a network of workers centers that are challenging wage thievery around the nation and partnering with government agencies to better enforce labor laws. Prior to Interfaith Worker Justice, Ms. Bobo was a trainer for the Midwest Academy, and Director of Organizing for Bread for the World. She is co-author of Organizing for Social Change, the best selling organizing manual in the country. 

Derrick L. Boykin
Northeast Regional Organizer
Bread for the World

In addition to his work for Bread for the World, Minister Derrick L. Boykin also serves as the associate minister for pastoral care at Walker Memorial Baptist Church in the Bronx. He attained his B. A. from Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia and an M. Div. from Morehouse School of Religion in Atlanta, Georgia.  He also earned an MA in International Relations from the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.

Rev. Juan Luis Calderon
Director, Hispanic Pastoral Institute
Archdioscese of Newark

Juan Luis Calderón, OAR, STL. Valladolid (Spain) 1969. Catholic priest of the Order of the Augustinian Recollects. Graduate of the University of Navarra (Spain) and Gregorian University (Italy). Professor of Theology in Spain, Italy and USA. At the present time serving the Archdiocese of Newark as Assistant Director of "Centro Guadalupe", the Pastoral Centre for Hispanics in Union City, NJ., and Director of the Pastoral Formation Institute. The treasurer and a member of the board of the Federación Nacional de Institutos Pastorales and member of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry. Preacher of spiritual retreats and speaker.

Max Finberg
Director
Alliance to End Hunger

Prior to becoming the Alliance to End Hunger's first director, Max served Ambassador and former Representative Tony Hall (D-OH) for 12 years in a variety of capacities. Most recently, Max was special assistant to the ambassador at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome. He was also senior legislative assistant issues for Rep. Hall, and worked on the successful passage of The Hunger Relief Act and the Community Solutions Act. Max was the founding director of the Mickey Leland Hunger Fellows Program at the Congressional Hunger Center. Max graduated with honors from Howard University's School of Divinity with a master's degree in social ethics and bachelor degrees in political science, German and international relations from Tufts University.

Rev. Anne Jernberg
Pastoral Resident
Wilshire Baptist Church

Anne Jernberg is concluding a two-year pastoral residency program at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.  Anne earned a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School in 2006 and a Bachelor's Degree in Religion from Austin College (Sherman, Texas). While at Harvard, Anne served as a Seminarian at The Memorial Church in Harvard Yard, chaplain at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Director of Spiritual Life for the Divinity School. Ordained in April of this year at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, Anne is now in the search process for her first pastorate.

Ndunge Kiiti
Senior Director for Partnership
MAP International

Ndunge Kiiti currently combines theoretical, practical and experiential learning approaches in international development with her role at MAP International and as an Associate Professor at Houghton College. Her tenure with MAP began in Nairobi, Kenya in 1991 as assistant director and then director of the communications department of MAP's African regional office where she designed, coordinated and implemented a communications program for relief and development, conflict mitigation and reconciliation, and HIV/AIDS materials. Kiiti has a Ph.D. in communications from Cornell University, an M.A. in development communication from Wheaton College, Chicago, IL, and a B.S. in business administration from Houghton College. She is a native of Kenya.

Monica Mills
Director of Government Relations
Bread for the World

For over twenty years Monica Mills has held senior management positions in government, political campaigns, and non-profits. She served for six years at the Peace Corps as the Associate Director for Recruitment and Selection and as the Regional Recruitment Director. She has also been the Chief of Staff for New York Rep. Louise Slaughter. Monica's campaign management includes positions as Campaign Director, Issues Director, Speechwriter, Press Director and Field Director for many congressional, gubernatorial and presidential candidates, including Tom Daschle and Tim Johnson of South Dakota. She has served as CEO, Vice President, Political Director and Personnel Director at non-profits, state agencies, political organizations and law firms in New York, Colorado and Washington, DC.

Elise Young
Mid-Atlantic and Central States Organizer
Bread for the World

For the past five years, Elise has worked with thousands of churches, schools, community groups and activists to build grassroots momentum towards accomplishing Bread for the World’s justice goals for hungry and poor people.  After graduating from Middlebury College in Vermont with degrees in French and in Sociology with a concentration in African Studies, she served as a Peace Corps Small Business Development Volunteer and then Staff Member in Benin, West Africa.  Upon returning to the United States, Elise worked as the Activities and Volunteer Coordinator for a refugee shelter in Buffalo, NY. 

Rev. Reginald W. Williams
Associate Pastor for Social Justice
Trinity United Church of Christ

Rev. Reginald Williams, Jr. is Associate Pastor at Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), where Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. is Senior Pastor, and Rev. Otis Moss, III is Pastor.  "Rev. Reggie" partners with TUCC Justice Ministries to advocate for justice on local, national and global levels.  Rev. Williams holds a B.S from the School of Business & Industry at Florida A&M University; a JD from University of Wisconsin Law School; and an M.Div. from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. 

Twins Tom Zehnder and Tim Gibbs Zehnder currently compose, arrange, perform and record as the band Zender, based in Los Angeles. Tim plays bass and doumbek, Tom plays guitar and djembe, and the two raise their voices together in elaborate duets. They offer a compelling, progressive blend of concert and inclusive worship leadership to local, national and international gatherings. The band recently was commissioned by Yale Divinity School to compose a song for, lead worship music, and offer a concert at the Faith as Way of Life Conference.