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Aisha Dew

Former North Carolina state campaign manager for Bernie Sanders and former campaign manager for Charlotte mayor Vi Lyles, Aisha is a savvy and experienced political strategist with a strong faith and creative arts background that informs all that she does.

Speaking Topics

• Faith in Action: My Voice in the World (Art and Politics)

• Making a Difference Where You Are

• Progressive Faith

Anita Grace Brown

Anita creates a safe place in which students can: practice yoga and meditation, let go of all judgment and distraction, and release self-doubt.

Speaking Topics

• What Does It Mean to Truly Embody Jesus?

• Practicing Presence, Wholeness & Integration

• Exploring Shalom with Breath, Body & Mind

Pastor Anthony Smith

Anthony is one of the curators (along with this wife Toni Cook-Smith) of Mission House, a kingdom experiment in Salisbury, NC.

Speaking Topics

• Hidden Fire: Cultivating a Discipleship Culture of Jesus Revolutionaries

• Postcolonial Hush Harbors

• Thin Places in the Wild

Ash Love

ashlove, MSW, MDiv (she/they/ash/ashlove/love) is a faith-rooted organizer and activist, a creative, and owner of ashlove, LLC where they provide individual wellness coaching and strategic planning services to small nonprofits.

Speaking Topics

• Queering Faith

• The WHOLESELF

• Womanist Reparations

Rev. Corey Brown

Corey is the founder and director of BRIDGE Interfaith Alliance. The goal of the organization is to fill the gap between Christianity and other faiths, teaching Christians how to be comfortable in diverse spiritual and faith environments.

Speaking Topics

• Interfaith Cooperation and Activism

• The Injustice of Racial Reconciliation Without Redemption

• Transformational Leadership/Leadership Through Change

Darren Calhoun

Darren Calhoun is a justice advocate, worship leader, and photographer based out of Chicago. He works to bridge connections between people of differing perspectives through story and relationship. 

Speaking Topics

• The Intersection of Race and LGBTQ Identity 

• Is Your Church Really Welcoming to LGBTQ People? 

• Make Love Louder: how to help people put their bodies where their hearts are

Dev Cuny

Dev Cuny, M.Div., is a storyteller activist,TEDx speaker, restorative justice practitioner, consultant, and writer. Dev also serves as a spokesperson and advisory member for the #BornPerfect Campaign to End Conversion Therapy.

Speaking Topics

• Jesus Loves (All) the Little Children: LGBTQ Conversion Therapy

• Healing the Wounds of Oppression: Restorative Justice Practices

• In the Name of God: Trauma and the Church

Dr. Jayme R. Reaves

Born and raised in the Deep South of the U.S., Jayme learned early on about negotiating boundaries related to race, gender, identity, conflict and peace, politics and faith and uses those skills in her work as a public theologian. Her book Safeguarding the Stranger: An Abrahamic Theology and Ethic of Protective Hospitality was published by Wipf & Stock in 2016. She lives in Dorset, England.

Speaking Topics

• Safeguarding the Stranger: An Abrahamic Theology and Ethic of Protective Hospitality

• #MeToo Jesus: Why Naming Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Abuse Matters

• We Are Made of Stories: Reading Contemporary Fiction as Sacred Text

Melissa McDaniel

Melissa M. McDaniel is an educator, choreographer, and community organizer. Her work aims to combine her love of dance with her experience as an educator and her passion for social justice. 

Speaking Topics

• Movement of the Movement: Embodying the Spirit of the Fight for Social Justice

• United We Dance

• Exploring Dance as a Form of Worship

Stephen Roach Knight

Stephen currently serves as Director of Communications for JustLeadershipUSA, and he is the former special assistant to Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II with Repairers of the Breach, one of the lead partner organizations in the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

Speaking Topics

• The Future of Christianity in the U.S.

• Kingdom Journalism: Storytelling and the Magnalia Dei

• Social Media for Churches

Steve Pavey

Steve is an artist-, scholar-, contemplative-activist –– all of which come together in the vocation of cultivating a way to see, in order to bear witness to the world both as it is, and as it could be.

Speaking Topics

• Contemplation & Resistance:  Liberation from a Divided and Divisive Self in both its Individual and Collective forms

• White Lies Matter: The Delusions and Lies we Tell Ourselves

• Invitation from the Margins: We Greet You As Your Liberators

• We Are Already One: Becoming Who We Are

Xan West

Xan West is a preacher of Black Lives Matter and other millennial liberation theologies, a teacher of liturgical direct action, a grassroots organizer, mystic, and ritual holder. She is a Black queer femme and a pretty darn good mom.

Speaking Topics

• Liturgical Direct Action

• Faith on the Front Lines 

• Decolonizing Jesus

Rev. Dr. Yvette R. Blair-Lavallais

Rev. Dr. Yvette Blair is a food justice scholar, eco-womanist, public theologian, and award-winning writer based in Dallas. Her research is at the intersection of faith and food apartheid, and its impact on Black, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples. She is an international speaker on food justice through a theological lens and has been featured at Conversations with the White House, Bread for the World Global Summit, and the UN Food Systems Summit.

Speaking Topics

• Dismantling Systemic Injustice Through a Faith Lens

• Getting Fed in a Food Desert

• Land and Deed: God’s Trust Fund