Speakers
Named one of 15 Faith Leaders to Watch by the Center for American Progress, Rev. Jennifer Bailey is an ordained minister, public theologian, and emerging national leader in multi-faith movement for justice. She is the Founding Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network, a new interfaith community equipping faith leaders to challenge structural inequality in their communities. Jennifer comes to this work with nearly a decade of experience at nonprofits combatting intergenerational poverty.
A Truman Scholar and Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow, Jennifer earned degrees from Tufts University and Vanderbilt University Divinity School where she was awarded the Wilbur F. Tillett Prize for accomplishments in the study of theology. She writes regularly for a number of publications including Sojourners and the Huffington Post. Her first book, tentatively titled Confessions of a #Millennial #Minister is currently under contract with Chalice Press. Rev. Bailey is an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Jen will serve as a lead facilitator for this series of retreats.
Rev. Jennifer Bailey
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M. Dove Kent
M. Dove Kent is the former Executive Director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) in New York. Dove has over a decade of experience in issue-based, identity-based, and neighborhood-based community organizing in the fields of affordable housing, immigrant justice, police accountability, restorative justice, worker rights, and religious freedom. She teaches widely on anti-Semitism and the roles of Jews in the movement for justice.
Dove will serve as a "master teacher" for the Racial Justice retreat on February 17th, 2017.
Rev. Alexia Salvatierra
Rev. Alexia Salvatierra is the author with Dr. Peter Heltzel of “Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World” (Intervarsity Press) and the founder of the Faith-Rooted Organizing UnNetwork. She is an ELCA Lutheran Pastor with over 35 years of experience in community ministry, including church-based service and community development programs, congregational and community organizing, and legislative advocacy. She has been a national leader in the areas of working poverty and immigration for over 20 years, including the co-founding of the national Evangelical Immigration Table (a very broad coalition of evangelical leaders and institutions advocating for immigration reform).
Alexia will serve as a "master teacher" for the Immigration retreat on March 10th, 2017.
Leonard Curry is an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. He is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and holds both the Master of Sacred Theology (STM), and a Master of Divinity (MDiv) degrees from Yale Divinity School, a Master of Arts in Teaching (MA) from Christian Brothers University, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Rhodes College. Leonard is currently a PhD candidate in the area of Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University where his research focuses on the role of Christianity in modern and post-modern conceptions of race and sexuality. Leonard loves music and art, and finds sparks of the divine in moments of creativity.
Leonard will serve as a lead facilitator for Racial Justice retreat.