Sanghoon Yoo
Pastor Sanghoon Yoo, the founder of The Faithful City (TFC), has led ministries and social services at Arizona State University (ASU) and the Phoenix metropolitan area over two decades. He holds Master’s degrees in Social Work (MSW) and in theology (MDiv). He launched “Arizona Trauma Informed Faith Community (AZTIFC),” collaborating with Arizona ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Consortium that he is serving as a board member. He organizes a statewide conference and mobilizes trauma informed community movement, working with many organizations from diverse sectors.
With Arizona ACEs Consortium, he contributed to the authorship of training modules for opioid and substance […]
Yadi Martínez-Reyna
Yadi Martínez Reyna is a bilingual Latinx gender non-conforming artist, UCC Licensed Minister, Pastor, and borderlander, born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. Yadi serves as the LGBTQIA Unconscious Bias Awareness Facilitator with ten+ years of experience working with young people in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metropolitan area. Their work includes using arts and networking skills to create community events, retreats, leadership conferences, and safe spaces. Yadi is a certified facilitator in the Our Whole Lives (OWL) curriculum, which provides comprehensive sexuality education for young people. Yadi serves as a Youth Pastor at New Church, Chiesa Nuova, […]
Phiwa Langeni
As a queer, Black, trans person from an immigrant family, the Rev. Phiwa Langeni is quite skilled at detecting and decreasing various societal gaps, especially with/for those with multiple minoritized identities. Since ordination in 2011, Phiwa has served in just about every local church setting possible: a thriving progressive church, multi-charge rural churches, a large suburban church, small churches deeply rooted in political and social justice, a new church start/nonprofit hybrid. They currently serve as the Ambassador for Innovation and Engagement in the Center for Analytics, Research & Development, and Data of the United Church of Christ. Phiwa is the […]
Matt Overton
The Rev. Matt Overton is a minister in the Pacific Northwest and the Executive Director of the Columbia Future Forge. The Forge is a non-profit church ministry providing teens and young adults with job skills, life skills, and mentorship. He is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary with over 20 years of youth ministry experience. Matt has attempted to write about innovation and social enterprise as they relate to working with teenagers in the 21st century. His innovative model for student ministry has been featured in several publications and he writes articles for various publications as well.
Laurie Santos
Dr. Laurie Renee Santos is a cognitive scientist and Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She is also Director of Yale’s Comparative Cognition Laboratory, Director of Yale’s Canine Cognition Lab, Head of Yale’s Silliman College, and she is also the host of “The Happiness Lab” podcast. Her course, “The Science of Well Being” is the most popular in Yale’s history.
Jannah Scott
Jannah Scott is a Strategist, Planner, Advisor, Public Policy Expert, who has served in many capacities with faith, government, business and the nonprofit community.
For eight years, Jannah served in President Obama’s administration as Deputy Director, Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In that role, Jannah guided the engagement of faith-based and community groups on issues of resilience integration, emergency preparedness and response; countering violent extremism; religious accommodations in homeland security; H1N1 and other issues within Homeland Security.
Her most recent endeavors included an assessment and engagement process in cities across the nation to promote […]
Ryan Gackenheimer
The Rev. Ryan Gackenheimer joined Silver Lake in 2016, coming from more than seven years of ministry as Associate Pastor of the First Congregational Church UCC of Essex, Vermont. As a young camper in Indiana Ryan found a passion for the life transforming ministry that happens at camp. He has prior camp experience in Indiana, Vermont, and Idaho, and has served on the Board of the UCC’s Outdoor Ministry Association and is currently the OMA Chaplain. A graduate of DePauw University and Eden Theological Seminary, he and his wife, Rev. Abby, have a young son, Keadyn.
Andrew Wicks
Andrew Wicks is the founder of Incredible Days, an organization which provides experiential learning programs and leadership training. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Incredible Days has been a pioneer in the field of Virtual Mission Trips, and in addition to innovating virtual mission trips, Andrew has led programs in North America, South America, Asia, and the Caribbean. Andrew also serves as the Director of Youth Ministries and Special Missions at First Church of Christ, UCC, in Glastonbury, CT.
Nathan Stucky
Nathan Stucky, MDiv ’10, PhD ’13, serves as director of The Farminary Project at Princeton Theological Seminary. He grew up on a farm in Kansas where his love for Christian faith and agriculture first took root. After earning a BA in music from Bethel College (Kansas), Nathan spent six years doing ecumenical youth ministry on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and two years farming back in Kansas. After farming, Nathan earned an MDiv and a PhD (practical theology, Christian education and formation) from Princeton Theological Seminary. His scholarship explores the integration of theological education and agrarianism, and he sees the […]
Josephine Kim
Josephine Kim has a dual faculty appointment in Prevention Science and Practice/CAS in Counseling programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and in the Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. She is also on faculty at the Center for Cross-Cultural Student Emotional Wellness at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a National Certified Counselor whose clinical skills and experiences span many contexts including residential facilities, community agencies, and public and private schools. She has worked with multicultural populations through individual, group, and family counseling and has taught […]
Sharell Shippen
Reverend Sharell Shippen is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Currently, her passion for ministry is lived out in her service as Interim Pastor of United Church of Christ Valley Forge, in Wayne, PA.
In the fall of 2016, Sharell began her tenure as Director of Faith-Based Ministry at Human Good. In this role she travels throughout the greater Philadelphia area fostering relationships with Faith-Based organizations and promoting synergy between Human Good and its surrounding community partners.
Reverend Shippen completed her undergraduate studies at The Pennsylvania State University, Abington Campus. She also holds a Master of Social Work degree […]
Caroline Ainsworth Hughes
Rev. Caroline Ainsworth Hughes serves as the Minister for Christian Formation at the Wilton Congregational Church in Wilton, Connecticut. There she gets to put her many years of children’s and youth ministry to work serving children and families of the congregation and wider community.
Rev. Hughes received her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University (B.S. 2008) and her Master of Divinity from Princeton Seminary (2020). She is married to her husband Jake and the two live in New York City with their young son, Henry.