Charlene Sinclair, Founder and Director of the Center for Race, Religion and Economic Democracy

Patrick Reyes, Forum for Theological Exploration and author of Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community and Surviving to Adulthood 

Starsky Wilson, President and CEO, Deaconess Foundation, moderator
Michael Tubbs, Mayor of Stockton, CA,
Natalie Turner, Freedom BLOC (Black Led Organizing Collaborative)
Adam Vega, “Feeding Our Frontline: Feeding Our Farmworkers”

Ash-Lee Henderson, Co-Director, Highlander Research and Action Center, Movement for Black Lives organizer
Gus Newport, National Council of Elders and former mayor of Berkley, CA
Kazu Haga, Oakland Peace Center and author of Healing Resistance
AJ Musewe, Director of Youth Leadership Development with Common Purpose

CDF Policy Team

Greg Ellison II, Candler School of Theology and Fearless Dialogues, editor of Anchored in the Current

Luther Smith, Jr., Pan Methodist Campaign for Children in Poverty, Candler School of Theology*

Will Gipson, Vice-Provost for Equity and Access, University of Pennsylvania, and CDF Freedom Schools Scholars

Emma Jordan Simpson, Executive Director, Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Pastor, Concord Baptist Church of Christ

Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago

Shively Smith, Boston University School of Theology*

Frederick (Jerry) Streets, CDF Proctor chaplain, Senior Pastor of Dixwell Ave. Congregational UCC, and Adjunct Professor of Yale University Divinity School

Kim Brazwell, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, KiMISTRY

Candace Simpson, writer and educator, Fish Sandwich Heaven

Otis Moss Jr., Pastor Emeritus, Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, and former staff member with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ

Emma Jordan Simpson, Executive Director, Fellowship of Reconciliation, USA, and Pastor, Concord Baptist Church of Christ
Candace Simpson, writer and educator, Fish Sandwich Heaven, and Shakeema North, Director of Youth Development and Pastoral Service, Covenant House New York

Charlene Sinclair, moderator
Kerry Mitchell Jones, Sr., Researcher, BlackPAC
Erica Clemmons Dean, National Organizing Director with Forward Together’s 9to5 and her daughter, Paige Clemmons
Tracy Najera, Executive Director, CDF-Ohio

Dejuan Bland, organizer and artist

Damien Durr, Executive Pastor of Community Development, Friendship-West Baptist Church, moderator
Rahim Buford, Nashville Community Bail Fund and Unheard Voices Outreach; Nafeesah Goldsmith, New Jersey Together; and Omari Booker, artist and organizer

CDF Policy Team

Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President Emerita, Children’s Defense Fund

Parker Palmer, Founder, Center for Courage and Renewal*

Damien Durr, Executive Pastor of Community Development, Friendship-West Baptist Church

Damien Durr

Bishop Yvette Flunder, Presiding Bishop of The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, founding member of the City of Refuge United Church of Christ, adjunct professor at the Pacific School of Religion

Tyler Sit, Founder and Pastor, New City Church*

Marian Wright Edelman and CDF Freedom Schools

Charlene Sinclair, Founder and Director of the Center for Race, Religion and Economic Democracy
Victor Anderson, Professor of Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt Divinity School

Introductory framing by Greg Ellison II, Candler School of Theology and Fearless Dialogues

Martin Doblmeier, filmmaker, moderator;
Walter Fluker, Candler School of Theology, Shively Smith, professors at the Boston University School of Theology
Starsky Wilson, President and CEO, Deaconess Foundation
and Greg Ellison II, Candler School of Theology and Fearless Dialogues

Charlene Sinclair, Founder and Director, Center for Race, Religion and Economic Democracy

Introduction to Freedom Seminary’s faculty book led by editors Virginia Lee and Reggie Blount, Garrett-Evangelical School of Theology

Discussion facilitated by Patrick Reyes, Forum for Theological Exploration

Discussion facilitated by Ched Myers and Elaine Enns, Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries, co-authors, Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Volumes I and II

Discussion facilitated by Virginia Lee and Reggie Blount

Omari Booker, artist and organizer, and Karla McKanders, immigration lawyer and Vanderbilt Divinity School student, will facilitate discussion on their new children’s book on migration stories of immigrant children

Discussion facilitated by Shannon Daley-Harris, Director of CDF’s Proctor Institute, and Eileen W. Lindner, Proctor Institute Theologian-in-Residence

Introduction to documentary about Cyntoia Brown, led by Charlene Sinclair

Charlene Sinclair

Charlene Sinclair moderator
Rahim Buford, Nashville Community Bail Fund and Unheard Voices Outreach
Travis Claybrooks and Ashlee Sellars, Raphah Institute

Greg Ellison II, Fearless Dialogues, Candler School of Theology and author, Fearless Dialogues, Cut Dead But Still Alive: Caring for African American Young Men, editor, Anchored in the Current: Discovering Howard Thurman as Educator, Activist, Guide and Prophet

Greg Ellison II, moderator

Parker Palmer, Founder, Center for Courage and Renewal

Liza Rankow, Pacific School of Religion and OneLife Institute

Matthew Williams, President of the Interdenominational Theological Center

Luther Smith, Jr., Pan Methodist Campaign for Children

Patrick Reyes, Forum for Theological Exploration and author of Nobody Cries When We Die: God, Community and Surviving to Adulthood 

Patrick Reyes, Forum for Theological Exploration, moderator

Matthew Williams, President of the Interdenominational Theological Center (FTE)

Dori Baker, Senior Fellow with FTE and co-founder of The Listening Freedom School

Stephen Lewis, President of the Forum for Theological Exploration

(All co-authors of Another Way)

Damien Durr, Executive Pastor of Community Development, Friendship-West Baptist Church, Brandon McCormack, Department of Pan-African Studies, Louisville University, and Bryan Eason, public school teacher, former Children’s Defense Fund Ella Baker Trainer

Shively Smith, Assistant Professor of New Testament, Boston University School of Theology