LCLI Fellows are a living web of transformational connections upon which each Fellow can draw.
Each inevitably inhabits other webs or networks that are of interest and value.
Our desire in this loose Fellowship is to make visible the rich complexity within which we all live, work,
helping extend those human connections that contribute to enhanced life and flourishing for all.
Each inevitably inhabits other webs or networks that are of interest and value.
Our desire in this loose Fellowship is to make visible the rich complexity within which we all live, work,
helping extend those human connections that contribute to enhanced life and flourishing for all.
Carla Alvarado
Carla’s expertise ranges from health policy, public health, and population health to intersectionality and health equity. She has previous experience in industry, government, academic, and nonprofit settings that include entities like Cigna/Evernorth; the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Across these settings, Carla has championed, operationalized, and implemented diversity, equity, and inclusion activities as well as projects focusing on health equity. As director of research at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Center for Health Justice, Carla ensures the quality of research and the application of asset-based and intersectionality frameworks to the center’s research to inform policies and actions that address health inequities.
Carla’s expertise ranges from health policy, public health, and population health to intersectionality and health equity. She has previous experience in industry, government, academic, and nonprofit settings that include entities like Cigna/Evernorth; the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Across these settings, Carla has championed, operationalized, and implemented diversity, equity, and inclusion activities as well as projects focusing on health equity. As director of research at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Center for Health Justice, Carla ensures the quality of research and the application of asset-based and intersectionality frameworks to the center’s research to inform policies and actions that address health inequities.
Kanwaljeet 'Sunny' Anand
Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology at Stanford University School of Medicine; serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards for Sadguru Center for a Conscious Planet at Harvard and Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute for Medical Sciences & Research (the world’s first medical school for rural medicine in India), and Chief Editor for the interdisciplinary open-access journal Awareness. Sunny is a graduate from M.G.M. Medical College, Indore (India), Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford where he received the D.Phil. degree, followed by post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Pediatric residency training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Critical Care Medicine training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He received the Dr. Michael Blacow Award from British Paediatric Association (1986), Pediatric Resident Research Award from American Academy of Pediatrics (1992), the inaugural Young Investigator Award in Pediatric Pain from International Association for Study of Pain (IASP, 1994), the Jeffrey Lawson Award from American Pain Society (2000), Windermere Honorary Lectureship from Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (2004), Joan M. Cranmer “Mentor of the Year” Award (2007) from University of Arkansas, the Nils Rosén von Rosenstein Award from the Swedish Academy of Medicine (2009), the 9th Annual “In Praise of Medicine” Public Address from Erasmus University (2013), the 2015 Journées Nationales de Néonatologie Lectureship at The Pasteur Institute (Paris, France), the Nightingale Excellence Award for Physicians from Stanford Children’s Healthcare (2016), and an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine from Örebro University (Sweden, 2019) . His community service activities were recognized by the Father Joseph Biltz Award (2007) from National Conference for Community & Justice (NCCJ) and the Dr. Martin Luther King “Salute to Greatness” Individual Award (2008) from State of Arkansas. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles, edited 9 books and journal issues, contributed 60 book chapters and numerous other publications. He was a leading authority on management of pain in newborn infants and children and is currently engaged in developing biomarkers for wellness and human flourishing in children and adults.
Professor of Pediatrics and Anesthesiology at Stanford University School of Medicine; serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards for Sadguru Center for a Conscious Planet at Harvard and Sri Madhusudan Sai Institute for Medical Sciences & Research (the world’s first medical school for rural medicine in India), and Chief Editor for the interdisciplinary open-access journal Awareness. Sunny is a graduate from M.G.M. Medical College, Indore (India), Rhodes Scholar at University of Oxford where he received the D.Phil. degree, followed by post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, Pediatric residency training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Critical Care Medicine training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He received the Dr. Michael Blacow Award from British Paediatric Association (1986), Pediatric Resident Research Award from American Academy of Pediatrics (1992), the inaugural Young Investigator Award in Pediatric Pain from International Association for Study of Pain (IASP, 1994), the Jeffrey Lawson Award from American Pain Society (2000), Windermere Honorary Lectureship from Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (2004), Joan M. Cranmer “Mentor of the Year” Award (2007) from University of Arkansas, the Nils Rosén von Rosenstein Award from the Swedish Academy of Medicine (2009), the 9th Annual “In Praise of Medicine” Public Address from Erasmus University (2013), the 2015 Journées Nationales de Néonatologie Lectureship at The Pasteur Institute (Paris, France), the Nightingale Excellence Award for Physicians from Stanford Children’s Healthcare (2016), and an Honorary Doctorate in Medicine from Örebro University (Sweden, 2019) . His community service activities were recognized by the Father Joseph Biltz Award (2007) from National Conference for Community & Justice (NCCJ) and the Dr. Martin Luther King “Salute to Greatness” Individual Award (2008) from State of Arkansas. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles, edited 9 books and journal issues, contributed 60 book chapters and numerous other publications. He was a leading authority on management of pain in newborn infants and children and is currently engaged in developing biomarkers for wellness and human flourishing in children and adults.
Joy Anderson
President and Founder of Criterion Institute and with a PhD in History from New York University, Joy is highly experienced in thinking about how to shift complex systems, particularly finance, and widely and delightfully connected in this regard. She is also visiting faculty at Wesleyan University and a fellow at Christian Theological Seminary. Her particular areas of specialization and research interests include finance, investing, the systems that manage our economies, church structures, connections between theology and economic relationships, and gender analysis. With wide-ranging professional experience, she both founded and has run Criterion for the last 13 years, as well as founding a venture fund which is one of the leaders in impact investing, leading a movement around investing with a gender lens, and a campaign to have 1000 churches invest in microbusinesses in their communities as a way for them to engage in theological reflection about their economic relationships. With a ‘cool family’ and a heady life, Joy wants people to believe that they can change the systems of the economy.
President and Founder of Criterion Institute and with a PhD in History from New York University, Joy is highly experienced in thinking about how to shift complex systems, particularly finance, and widely and delightfully connected in this regard. She is also visiting faculty at Wesleyan University and a fellow at Christian Theological Seminary. Her particular areas of specialization and research interests include finance, investing, the systems that manage our economies, church structures, connections between theology and economic relationships, and gender analysis. With wide-ranging professional experience, she both founded and has run Criterion for the last 13 years, as well as founding a venture fund which is one of the leaders in impact investing, leading a movement around investing with a gender lens, and a campaign to have 1000 churches invest in microbusinesses in their communities as a way for them to engage in theological reflection about their economic relationships. With a ‘cool family’ and a heady life, Joy wants people to believe that they can change the systems of the economy.
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Dora Barilla
DrPH), President and co-founder of HC2 Strategies, co-chair of Stakeholder Health, is former VP for Community Health Investment at Providence. She is actively working with states to implement 1115 waivers to better serve communities and has been a key thought leader and innovator spearheading (“creating and driving”) strategic plans for health systems, counties, and community organizations. Looking at needs assessment, implementation, strategy, advisement, coalition building, systems and policy changes – the many spokes in today’s health systems wheel – she drives meaningful change in the ever-shifting healthcare environment. She is the founder & Chair of Partners for Better Health, developing leaders to address community health and well-being through cross sector and collaborative approaches. She lives in Southern California with husband Tom, and has two grown daughters. |
Kevin Barnett
Kevin, DrPH, MCP an affiliate Principal Investigator at the Public Health Institute, works in the intersection of health care, public health, and communities, with a focus on eliminating inequities and advancing social justice. His work emphasizes engagement of diverse stakeholders to address the root causes of health problems, working across sectors to align a broad spectrum of resources, assets and passions to make a difference in the lives of people from all walks of life. He serves on a number of boards, from Trinity Health, a large, Catholic nonprofit health system, to the Pathways Community Hub Institute, a national organization that supports a comprehensive approach to community health worker engagement. He also has been a thought leader with the Stakeholder Health movement since its inception. When he’s not working, he enjoys hiking in the backcountry, dining with his gourmet chef wife Alison, and watching ballgames with his son David.
Kevin, DrPH, MCP an affiliate Principal Investigator at the Public Health Institute, works in the intersection of health care, public health, and communities, with a focus on eliminating inequities and advancing social justice. His work emphasizes engagement of diverse stakeholders to address the root causes of health problems, working across sectors to align a broad spectrum of resources, assets and passions to make a difference in the lives of people from all walks of life. He serves on a number of boards, from Trinity Health, a large, Catholic nonprofit health system, to the Pathways Community Hub Institute, a national organization that supports a comprehensive approach to community health worker engagement. He also has been a thought leader with the Stakeholder Health movement since its inception. When he’s not working, he enjoys hiking in the backcountry, dining with his gourmet chef wife Alison, and watching ballgames with his son David.
Matthew Bersagel Braley
Matthew, Professor in Ethics, Culture, and Society, Viterbo University and former chair of the graduate program in Servant Leadership, holds a Ph.D. in Religion with an emphasis in social ethics and human rights from Emory University. He is past fellow at the Center for Health, Culture and Society at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health and at the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo. He is currently a Faith and Health Fellow with Interfaith America. He was fortunate in graduate school to be introduced to the work of the International Religious Health Assets Program (IRHAP), an international network of scholars and practitioners employing assets-based development approaches to understand the intersection of religion and health care systems globally. He continues to draw on both the religious health assets and leading causes of life frameworks for organizing his research and teaching, especially in relation to sociological and theological understandings of participation and meaning-making in an imperfect world. Previously he was Executive Director of STAR, a university-community partnership in Atlanta highlighting reconciliation practices in U.S. communities confronting legacies of racial violence. He is passionate about getting students out of the classroom and into the community to serve and learn – in his hometown, La Crosse, Wisconsin as well as in Africa and the African Diaspora – on the intersection of health, race, religion, and social justice.
Matthew, Professor in Ethics, Culture, and Society, Viterbo University and former chair of the graduate program in Servant Leadership, holds a Ph.D. in Religion with an emphasis in social ethics and human rights from Emory University. He is past fellow at the Center for Health, Culture and Society at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health and at the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo. He is currently a Faith and Health Fellow with Interfaith America. He was fortunate in graduate school to be introduced to the work of the International Religious Health Assets Program (IRHAP), an international network of scholars and practitioners employing assets-based development approaches to understand the intersection of religion and health care systems globally. He continues to draw on both the religious health assets and leading causes of life frameworks for organizing his research and teaching, especially in relation to sociological and theological understandings of participation and meaning-making in an imperfect world. Previously he was Executive Director of STAR, a university-community partnership in Atlanta highlighting reconciliation practices in U.S. communities confronting legacies of racial violence. He is passionate about getting students out of the classroom and into the community to serve and learn – in his hometown, La Crosse, Wisconsin as well as in Africa and the African Diaspora – on the intersection of health, race, religion, and social justice.
Elias Bongmba
Elias holds the Harry and Hazel Chavanne in Christian Theology and is Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University in the USA. He holds a PhD in the Joint Program at lliff School of Theology and University of Denver, 1995, and is a Faculty Associate at Wiess College. He is past Managing Editor of Religious Studies Reviews, The Bulletin of the Council for Societies for the Study of Religion, and the Journal of Religion in Africa. His primary areas of teaching include African an African Diaspora Religious; African Christianity/Theology Hermeneutics and Theology; Contemporary Theology and Ethics, whilst his secondary teaching areas include 19th Century Theology and Philosophy of Religion, African Studies; Philosophy/Ethics. His book, The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa, won The 2007 Franz Prize for outstanding work in Caribbean thought, awarded by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Elias holds the Harry and Hazel Chavanne in Christian Theology and is Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University in the USA. He holds a PhD in the Joint Program at lliff School of Theology and University of Denver, 1995, and is a Faculty Associate at Wiess College. He is past Managing Editor of Religious Studies Reviews, The Bulletin of the Council for Societies for the Study of Religion, and the Journal of Religion in Africa. His primary areas of teaching include African an African Diaspora Religious; African Christianity/Theology Hermeneutics and Theology; Contemporary Theology and Ethics, whilst his secondary teaching areas include 19th Century Theology and Philosophy of Religion, African Studies; Philosophy/Ethics. His book, The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa, won The 2007 Franz Prize for outstanding work in Caribbean thought, awarded by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Heidi Christensen
Heidi, MTS, is Public Affairs Specialist at the Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Her efforts focus on strengthening the capacity of faith and community organizations to respond to critical public health issues. Heidi has coordinated coalitions of diverse faith and community-based partners to address critical health issues including childhood obesity, diabetes, access to care, and the epidemic of addiction, as well as the social and economic issues challenging the health of our nation’s communities. On behalf of the Center, she has led authorship on the Opioid Crisis Practical Toolkit for Faith and Community (now in its fifth edition), theRoadmap to Recovery Support for Faith and Community Leaders: Getting Back to Work, and A Practical Guide to Increasing Direct Access to Mental Health Care in Faith Settings.. Previously, at the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, Heidi supported U.S. faith-based organizations on collaborative efforts addressing malaria and other health issues affecting the developing world. She holds a master's degree in systematic theology and is a practicing visual artist.
Heidi, MTS, is Public Affairs Specialist at the Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. Her efforts focus on strengthening the capacity of faith and community organizations to respond to critical public health issues. Heidi has coordinated coalitions of diverse faith and community-based partners to address critical health issues including childhood obesity, diabetes, access to care, and the epidemic of addiction, as well as the social and economic issues challenging the health of our nation’s communities. On behalf of the Center, she has led authorship on the Opioid Crisis Practical Toolkit for Faith and Community (now in its fifth edition), theRoadmap to Recovery Support for Faith and Community Leaders: Getting Back to Work, and A Practical Guide to Increasing Direct Access to Mental Health Care in Faith Settings.. Previously, at the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, Heidi supported U.S. faith-based organizations on collaborative efforts addressing malaria and other health issues affecting the developing world. She holds a master's degree in systematic theology and is a practicing visual artist.
Jim Cochrane
Jim is Emeritus Professor, (BSc, MDiv, PhD, DDiv h.c.), Dept for the Study of Religion, and Senior Research Associate in the School of Public Health, at the University of Cape Town, and Adjunct Faculty, Dept of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He manages the Leading Causes of Life Initiative in partnership with Prof Gary Gunderson, Wake Forest University, NC, USA. Previously Director of the Research Institute on Christianity and Society in Africa and Co-Director of the International/African Religious Health Assets Programme Hub at the University of Cape Town, his theoretical focus has been on religion in public life (including public health), social, political and economic ethics, ‘community wisdom,’ and globalization. Chief editor, with Gary Gunderson and Teresa Cutts of the new Handbook on Health and Religion: Pathways for a Turbulent Future (Edward Elgar, 2024), he has also written, with LCLI Fellow Doug McGaughey, The Human Spirit: Groundwork (2017), which he regards as a key contribution to rethinking everything we as humans are engaged in. A previous editor of the Journal of Theology for Southern Africa and of the New South African Outlook, his other publications include Religion and the Health of the Public: Shifting the Paradigm (with Gary Gunderson), Circles of Dignity: Theological Reflection and Community Wisdom, and Servants of Power: English Speaking Churches in South Africa, 1903-1930; in toto, he has close on 200 essays, articles and other publications.
Jim is Emeritus Professor, (BSc, MDiv, PhD, DDiv h.c.), Dept for the Study of Religion, and Senior Research Associate in the School of Public Health, at the University of Cape Town, and Adjunct Faculty, Dept of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He manages the Leading Causes of Life Initiative in partnership with Prof Gary Gunderson, Wake Forest University, NC, USA. Previously Director of the Research Institute on Christianity and Society in Africa and Co-Director of the International/African Religious Health Assets Programme Hub at the University of Cape Town, his theoretical focus has been on religion in public life (including public health), social, political and economic ethics, ‘community wisdom,’ and globalization. Chief editor, with Gary Gunderson and Teresa Cutts of the new Handbook on Health and Religion: Pathways for a Turbulent Future (Edward Elgar, 2024), he has also written, with LCLI Fellow Doug McGaughey, The Human Spirit: Groundwork (2017), which he regards as a key contribution to rethinking everything we as humans are engaged in. A previous editor of the Journal of Theology for Southern Africa and of the New South African Outlook, his other publications include Religion and the Health of the Public: Shifting the Paradigm (with Gary Gunderson), Circles of Dignity: Theological Reflection and Community Wisdom, and Servants of Power: English Speaking Churches in South Africa, 1903-1930; in toto, he has close on 200 essays, articles and other publications.
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Thandeka Cochrane
A social anthropologist and historian, Thandeka completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2020 on literacy, libraries and children’s stories in rural Malawi. Her research interests lie in epistemic entanglements, how knowledge moves, and colonialism and postcolonialism in Africa. Previously she studied Early Childhood Development centres in Malawi and travelling epistemologies in colonial southern Africa. She is currently part of the Cartographies of Cancer project, King’s College London, where she spearheads the fieldwork at cancer registries in east and southern Africa, as well as doing extensive archival research on colonial and early postcolonial cancer research. Born and growing up in South Africa, she and Tobias, also an LCLI Fellow are fully engaged in raising their first child, ‘Bayo (Adebayo Lukas). |
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A clinical social worker who sparks undergraduate medical students' curiosity in the social and psychological dynamics that shape people's experiences of health and wellbeing in South Africa. She is a lecturer within the University of Cape Town’s Department of Family, Community, and Emergency Care. Her doctoral research lies in understanding how people make meaning of living in a high violence community in Cape Town, and how this shapes their responses to continuous traumatic stress. Sarah's current teaching and research is grounded in her twenty years of working as a community-based trauma therapist in Cape Town, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uganda, and southern Sudan. Her husband, Deon Snyman is the director at Goedgedacht, a rural development olive farm outside of Cape Town. She supports Deon in building Goedgedacht into a place of hope. Encouraged by Archbishop Desmond’s statement that “hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness”, we seek to create a place where Hope can be found.
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Teresa Cutts
TC, as most know her, was Research Asst. Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC from 2013-2023 and is part of the Secretariat, Stakeholder Health. Past Director of Research for Innovation, Centre of Excellence in Faith and Health, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Memphis, adjunct academic appointments at the University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Tennessee’s College of Medicine’s departments of Preventive Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Memphis’ School of Public Health and Healthcare administration, and Memphis Theological Seminary. She has been instrumental in helping design and create clinical and community-based applications of the Leading Causes of Life framework, including the Life of Leaders (executive physical for clergy and other leaders’ health), survey instruments for clergy and lay persons used in primary care settings and in other sites focused on preventive medicine, as well as serving as a plenary leader outlining the ‘found science’ under-girding Leading Causes of Life in the two day workshop done for local United Methodist Church leaders (along with Dr Gary Gunderson and Rev. Larry Pray). She has served as Primary Investigator (PI) and Co-PI on numerous large scale grants, including co-site research of a community based intervention to promote peace and safety among minority males in Memphis, along with research from the Medical Research Council and University of South Africa, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention work on building capacity for influenza awareness, prevention and treatment in faith communities and developing a Community Health Record to combat obesity and cardiovascular disease, as well as serving as a multi-year consultant on Quality of Life for patients with gastrointestinal motility disorders. Most recently, she served as Co-PI on RWJF funded initiative for Stakeholder Health, a learning collaborative of over 50 healthcare systems representing several hundred individual hospitals across the USA, in conjunction the federal Health and Human Services and the White House, aimed at strengthening community partnership for healthcare via innovative strategies to improve the health of vulnerable populations. She has authored numerous articles in the medical and faith/health field and edited and/or co-authored several books and book chapters.
TC, as most know her, was Research Asst. Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC from 2013-2023 and is part of the Secretariat, Stakeholder Health. Past Director of Research for Innovation, Centre of Excellence in Faith and Health, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Memphis, adjunct academic appointments at the University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Tennessee’s College of Medicine’s departments of Preventive Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Memphis’ School of Public Health and Healthcare administration, and Memphis Theological Seminary. She has been instrumental in helping design and create clinical and community-based applications of the Leading Causes of Life framework, including the Life of Leaders (executive physical for clergy and other leaders’ health), survey instruments for clergy and lay persons used in primary care settings and in other sites focused on preventive medicine, as well as serving as a plenary leader outlining the ‘found science’ under-girding Leading Causes of Life in the two day workshop done for local United Methodist Church leaders (along with Dr Gary Gunderson and Rev. Larry Pray). She has served as Primary Investigator (PI) and Co-PI on numerous large scale grants, including co-site research of a community based intervention to promote peace and safety among minority males in Memphis, along with research from the Medical Research Council and University of South Africa, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention work on building capacity for influenza awareness, prevention and treatment in faith communities and developing a Community Health Record to combat obesity and cardiovascular disease, as well as serving as a multi-year consultant on Quality of Life for patients with gastrointestinal motility disorders. Most recently, she served as Co-PI on RWJF funded initiative for Stakeholder Health, a learning collaborative of over 50 healthcare systems representing several hundred individual hospitals across the USA, in conjunction the federal Health and Human Services and the White House, aimed at strengthening community partnership for healthcare via innovative strategies to improve the health of vulnerable populations. She has authored numerous articles in the medical and faith/health field and edited and/or co-authored several books and book chapters.
Nomvula Dlamini
Nomvula is an advocate for gender equality and women’s empowerment, she has worked in the civil society space for the past 27 years with social justice organisations & movements as facilitator of group & organisational change/learning processes and stakeholder dialogues/collaborations. Connected to this work, accompanying and mentoring emergent leaders and social change practitioners has been and remains something she is deeply passionate about. She has recently become part of a team of facilitators, healers and counsellors committed to offering Deep Wellness Retreats to provide a supportive and nurturing space for women to rediscover and strengthen the life-affirming resources that sustain them as leaders and help uncover what it means, personally and collectively, what it means to be on a path to deep wellness. She continues to serve on the boards of civil society organisations and foundations focused on women’s empowerment, social justice and creating access to education for young people from households disadvantaged by post-apartheid inequality, marginalisaton and poverty. She has published written offerings and has collaborated as writer to Barefoot Guides 2, 4 and 6 (www.barefootguide.org).
Nomvula is an advocate for gender equality and women’s empowerment, she has worked in the civil society space for the past 27 years with social justice organisations & movements as facilitator of group & organisational change/learning processes and stakeholder dialogues/collaborations. Connected to this work, accompanying and mentoring emergent leaders and social change practitioners has been and remains something she is deeply passionate about. She has recently become part of a team of facilitators, healers and counsellors committed to offering Deep Wellness Retreats to provide a supportive and nurturing space for women to rediscover and strengthen the life-affirming resources that sustain them as leaders and help uncover what it means, personally and collectively, what it means to be on a path to deep wellness. She continues to serve on the boards of civil society organisations and foundations focused on women’s empowerment, social justice and creating access to education for young people from households disadvantaged by post-apartheid inequality, marginalisaton and poverty. She has published written offerings and has collaborated as writer to Barefoot Guides 2, 4 and 6 (www.barefootguide.org).
Douglas Easterling
Doug is a Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest School of Medicine, and served as department chair from 2005-2015. He is both a researcher and an interventionist in support of social change, with a focus on topics such as program evaluation, strategic philanthropy, social capital, community capacity, collaboration, civic leadership and systems change. Much of this work is carried out through contracts with national, state, and local foundations. His focus for the past 12 years has been in developing, implementing and evaluating a version of “place-based philanthropy” where program officers engage with local actors in a community-development capacity, cultivating new and deeper work that advances health equity and racial justice. Along these lines, he has provided strategic advising and coaching to Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust and the Colorado Health Foundation, and served as the evaluator of the Clinton Foundation’s Community Health Matters Initiative. Prior to taking a faculty position at Wake Forest, Doug served as the Director of Research and Evaluation at The Colorado Trust, a health foundation in Denver. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the Wharton School, an M.A. in Quantitative Psychology from the University of North Carolina, and a B.A. from Carleton College. Doug loves writing, dog training, exploring indigenous spirituality and healing, and travel—to mountains and desert. Above all, he seeks to be part of processes, experiences and communities where people grow, evolve and step into their power.
Doug is a Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest School of Medicine, and served as department chair from 2005-2015. He is both a researcher and an interventionist in support of social change, with a focus on topics such as program evaluation, strategic philanthropy, social capital, community capacity, collaboration, civic leadership and systems change. Much of this work is carried out through contracts with national, state, and local foundations. His focus for the past 12 years has been in developing, implementing and evaluating a version of “place-based philanthropy” where program officers engage with local actors in a community-development capacity, cultivating new and deeper work that advances health equity and racial justice. Along these lines, he has provided strategic advising and coaching to Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust and the Colorado Health Foundation, and served as the evaluator of the Clinton Foundation’s Community Health Matters Initiative. Prior to taking a faculty position at Wake Forest, Doug served as the Director of Research and Evaluation at The Colorado Trust, a health foundation in Denver. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the Wharton School, an M.A. in Quantitative Psychology from the University of North Carolina, and a B.A. from Carleton College. Doug loves writing, dog training, exploring indigenous spirituality and healing, and travel—to mountains and desert. Above all, he seeks to be part of processes, experiences and communities where people grow, evolve and step into their power.
Euginia Eng
Professor Emirata of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geni focuses on the relevance and measurement of the concept of community competence as an outcome of community-based interventions. She has done extensive fieldwork in rural villages of Togo, Indonesia, and African American communities in the Mississippi Delta and North Carolina. She also works on the lay health advisor (LHA) intervention model, based on the concept of natural helping across social networks in ethnic minority populations, and on applying the Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis. Previously Director of the Kellogg Health Scholars Program in community-based participatory research (CBPR), Geni also enjoys piano, jazz and all things West African.
Professor Emirata of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geni focuses on the relevance and measurement of the concept of community competence as an outcome of community-based interventions. She has done extensive fieldwork in rural villages of Togo, Indonesia, and African American communities in the Mississippi Delta and North Carolina. She also works on the lay health advisor (LHA) intervention model, based on the concept of natural helping across social networks in ethnic minority populations, and on applying the Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis. Previously Director of the Kellogg Health Scholars Program in community-based participatory research (CBPR), Geni also enjoys piano, jazz and all things West African.
Sharon Engebretson
Trained in Clinical Pastoral Education, Sharon is Associate Vice President in the Division of Faith & Health Ministries at Wake Forest Baptist Health. She administers the division’s operational and strategic ministry initiatives, serves on the Medical Center’s Council for Inclusion and Diversity, and is also Adjunct Faculty at Wake Forest Divinity School. An ordained Methodist (Chicago/Illinois), she has held Board positions for the Association of Clinical Pastoral Educators, chairing several of the ACPE committees along the way and is also on the Advisory Board, Community Partnership for End of Life Care. Sharon has been key to supporting the LCL Initiative out of Wake Forest. When not carrying out all her formal duties, or immersing herself in a variety of literatures, she is also a lover of horses and the great outdoors.
Trained in Clinical Pastoral Education, Sharon is Associate Vice President in the Division of Faith & Health Ministries at Wake Forest Baptist Health. She administers the division’s operational and strategic ministry initiatives, serves on the Medical Center’s Council for Inclusion and Diversity, and is also Adjunct Faculty at Wake Forest Divinity School. An ordained Methodist (Chicago/Illinois), she has held Board positions for the Association of Clinical Pastoral Educators, chairing several of the ACPE committees along the way and is also on the Advisory Board, Community Partnership for End of Life Care. Sharon has been key to supporting the LCL Initiative out of Wake Forest. When not carrying out all her formal duties, or immersing herself in a variety of literatures, she is also a lover of horses and the great outdoors.
Joyce Essien
With an MD and MBA, Joyce is a retired Captain, US Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; retired Director, Center for Public Health Practice, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. A Board Certified Pathologist in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, her current focus on interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral translation research leverages the evidence base to make progress toward system scale change for health and equity. She provides leadership coaching for cross-sectoral teams nationally for the Public Health Institute’s National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health. She served on the 2014 ProjectAdvisory Committee of the Institute for Alternative Futures publication, Public Health Scenario 2030: A Scenario Exploration; and the Institute of Medicine Committees on the Assessment of Resiliency and Prevention Programs for Mental and Behavioral Health in Service Members and Their Families (2013-2014); and the Committee on Public Health Strategies (2009-2012). She serves on the boards of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, Inc. and AMGP Georgia Managed Care Company, Inc.
With an MD and MBA, Joyce is a retired Captain, US Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; retired Director, Center for Public Health Practice, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. A Board Certified Pathologist in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, her current focus on interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral translation research leverages the evidence base to make progress toward system scale change for health and equity. She provides leadership coaching for cross-sectoral teams nationally for the Public Health Institute’s National Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health. She served on the 2014 ProjectAdvisory Committee of the Institute for Alternative Futures publication, Public Health Scenario 2030: A Scenario Exploration; and the Institute of Medicine Committees on the Assessment of Resiliency and Prevention Programs for Mental and Behavioral Health in Service Members and Their Families (2013-2014); and the Committee on Public Health Strategies (2009-2012). She serves on the boards of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, Inc. and AMGP Georgia Managed Care Company, Inc.
Shirley Eloby Fleming
Shirley, Dr. Rev. is a long-time advocate for equity and social justice in health and human services, working for more than thirty years in public health locally and nationally as a provider, administrator and advocate to assure that all people, especially those who are disadvantaged, have the opportunity to enjoy the highest level of health and engagement in human society. Until March, 2004, she was second ranking public health officer for the City at the Chicago Department of Public Health, retiring from this position to attend seminary and do the work of health, healing and social justice, focused on the faith beliefs and practices of those who live on the margins. Since 2013 she has been co-director of The Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation, a collaborative between Advocate’s Health Care and the Office for Community Engagement and Neighborhood Health Partnerships at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Shirley is the recipient several local and national awards, and served on numerous local and national academic, faith-based and governmental boards that are focused on understanding and eliminating health inequity across the life cycle, with a special passion for community-driven strategies for improving maternal and child health.
Shirley, Dr. Rev. is a long-time advocate for equity and social justice in health and human services, working for more than thirty years in public health locally and nationally as a provider, administrator and advocate to assure that all people, especially those who are disadvantaged, have the opportunity to enjoy the highest level of health and engagement in human society. Until March, 2004, she was second ranking public health officer for the City at the Chicago Department of Public Health, retiring from this position to attend seminary and do the work of health, healing and social justice, focused on the faith beliefs and practices of those who live on the margins. Since 2013 she has been co-director of The Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation, a collaborative between Advocate’s Health Care and the Office for Community Engagement and Neighborhood Health Partnerships at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Shirley is the recipient several local and national awards, and served on numerous local and national academic, faith-based and governmental boards that are focused on understanding and eliminating health inequity across the life cycle, with a special passion for community-driven strategies for improving maternal and child health.
Anat Gesser-Edelsburg
Anat (PhD), Full Professor and Head of the School of Public Health, University of Haifa, is the Founding Director of the Health and Risk Communication Lab there, and formerly Vice Dean of Teaching Affairs, and Head of the Health Promotion Program, at the School of Public Health. Previously a visiting scholar at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, she is Deputy Editor of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, Associate Editor of BMC Public Health, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Public Health, and Academic Editor ofPLOS ONE. Her most recent book is Risk Communication and Infectious Diseases in an Age of Digital Media (Routledge Studies in Public Health). With many research grants, among them TellMe and Asset, two European Commission funded research grants, Anat has a BA (Summa Cum Laude, 1997) and PhD (With Distinction, 2002) from the Faculty of the Arts, Tel-Aviv University. She has completed her Post-Doc research (2006) being awarded the Vidal Angel Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Against Hate and Bigotry at the Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her areas of research include health and risk communication, positive deviance, social marketing, persuasive communication, health-promotion programs, entertainment-education, mixed methods research, and qualitative research. Anat investigate a variety of health-related issues, including emerging infectious disease (EID) communication, vaccination compliance, drugs and alcohol abuse, drinking-and-driving, sex education, nutrition, hospital-acquired infections prevention, preventing unintentional childhood injuries among the Bedouins in southern Israel, and health and risk communication surrounding COVID-19.
Anat (PhD), Full Professor and Head of the School of Public Health, University of Haifa, is the Founding Director of the Health and Risk Communication Lab there, and formerly Vice Dean of Teaching Affairs, and Head of the Health Promotion Program, at the School of Public Health. Previously a visiting scholar at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, she is Deputy Editor of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, Associate Editor of BMC Public Health, Associate Editor of Frontiers in Public Health, and Academic Editor ofPLOS ONE. Her most recent book is Risk Communication and Infectious Diseases in an Age of Digital Media (Routledge Studies in Public Health). With many research grants, among them TellMe and Asset, two European Commission funded research grants, Anat has a BA (Summa Cum Laude, 1997) and PhD (With Distinction, 2002) from the Faculty of the Arts, Tel-Aviv University. She has completed her Post-Doc research (2006) being awarded the Vidal Angel Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Against Hate and Bigotry at the Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her areas of research include health and risk communication, positive deviance, social marketing, persuasive communication, health-promotion programs, entertainment-education, mixed methods research, and qualitative research. Anat investigate a variety of health-related issues, including emerging infectious disease (EID) communication, vaccination compliance, drugs and alcohol abuse, drinking-and-driving, sex education, nutrition, hospital-acquired infections prevention, preventing unintentional childhood injuries among the Bedouins in southern Israel, and health and risk communication surrounding COVID-19.
Gary Gunderson
Gary is a writer, woodturner, beekeeper, tennis player and Professor of Religion and the Health of the Public, Wake Forest University School of Divinity. He is known globally for his seminal creative work at the intersection of faith and health. For almost two decades, he was in senior management of two major healthcare systems in Memphis and North Carolina, which demonstrated significantly different outcomes for patients and neighborhoods linked in “well-crafted webs of trust.” That work sparked several White House conferences and a robust network of healthcare and social change organizations called Stakeholder Health which he represented on the National Academies of Sciences Roundtable for Population Health. In North Carolina he served as Vice President for FaithHealth at Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Health, which adapted the Memphis model in a radically different social/political/religious ecology. As the structure of the health system evolved in more corporate manner, he shifted his work to the University in 2023. Co-editor with Teresa Cutts and James Cochrane of The Handbook on Religion and Health, Pathways for a Turbulent Future (Elgar Press, 2024), his earlier book, Deeply Woven Roots (Fortress Press, 1997), is a basic text in the field of congregational strengths, while Speak Life: Crafting Mercy in a Hard-Hearted Time (Stakeholder Health, 2018), focuses on leadership. Also co-author of Religion and the Health of the Public (Palgrave, 2016) with James Cochrane, his most recent book, God and the People: Prayers for a Newer New Awakening (Stakeholder Press, 2021), is a book of prayers. He was a contributing author about “faith as civic muscle” for the Springboard document which is guiding the work of dozens of federal agencies rebounding from COVID. Gunderson is an ordained Baptist minister married to Teresa Cutts.
Gary is a writer, woodturner, beekeeper, tennis player and Professor of Religion and the Health of the Public, Wake Forest University School of Divinity. He is known globally for his seminal creative work at the intersection of faith and health. For almost two decades, he was in senior management of two major healthcare systems in Memphis and North Carolina, which demonstrated significantly different outcomes for patients and neighborhoods linked in “well-crafted webs of trust.” That work sparked several White House conferences and a robust network of healthcare and social change organizations called Stakeholder Health which he represented on the National Academies of Sciences Roundtable for Population Health. In North Carolina he served as Vice President for FaithHealth at Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Health, which adapted the Memphis model in a radically different social/political/religious ecology. As the structure of the health system evolved in more corporate manner, he shifted his work to the University in 2023. Co-editor with Teresa Cutts and James Cochrane of The Handbook on Religion and Health, Pathways for a Turbulent Future (Elgar Press, 2024), his earlier book, Deeply Woven Roots (Fortress Press, 1997), is a basic text in the field of congregational strengths, while Speak Life: Crafting Mercy in a Hard-Hearted Time (Stakeholder Health, 2018), focuses on leadership. Also co-author of Religion and the Health of the Public (Palgrave, 2016) with James Cochrane, his most recent book, God and the People: Prayers for a Newer New Awakening (Stakeholder Press, 2021), is a book of prayers. He was a contributing author about “faith as civic muscle” for the Springboard document which is guiding the work of dozens of federal agencies rebounding from COVID. Gunderson is an ordained Baptist minister married to Teresa Cutts.
Tor S. Haugstad
Tor was born in India, where he spent his childhood and youth as son of medical missionary Edel Busch Haugstad and Reverend Magnus Haugstad. Married to Gro, a Professor of Physiotherapy, and father of three children with four grandchildren, he is currently Chief Consultant, MD (Oslo, 1977), PhD (Oslo, 1996) and Neurology specialist (Board certified, Norway, 1994) at the Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, Norway. He has served on a number of boards nationally and internationally in relation to Health and Human Rights, Medical Missions, and the Healing Ministry of the Church of Norway, and has published in the area of Medical Philosophy, the Healing Ministry of the Church, the Hereditary Ataxias, Mechanisms of Amino Acid Transport in the Mammalian Brain, and Mechanisms and Treatment Options for Longstanding Pain. He chairs a Department for Rehabilitation of Traumatic Brain Injury, as well as Programmes for Health and Human Rights and for Religious Health Assets in Norway. Having spent much of his professional life combating diseases and helping people regain function after serious injuries, he knows there is much more to life and health than fighting the causes of death. Life, immensely richer and more important than the absence of death, requires in his view a generative spirit that both transcends and permeates the physical universe, embracing all humans with love and instigating hope even in the face of death.
Tor was born in India, where he spent his childhood and youth as son of medical missionary Edel Busch Haugstad and Reverend Magnus Haugstad. Married to Gro, a Professor of Physiotherapy, and father of three children with four grandchildren, he is currently Chief Consultant, MD (Oslo, 1977), PhD (Oslo, 1996) and Neurology specialist (Board certified, Norway, 1994) at the Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, Norway. He has served on a number of boards nationally and internationally in relation to Health and Human Rights, Medical Missions, and the Healing Ministry of the Church of Norway, and has published in the area of Medical Philosophy, the Healing Ministry of the Church, the Hereditary Ataxias, Mechanisms of Amino Acid Transport in the Mammalian Brain, and Mechanisms and Treatment Options for Longstanding Pain. He chairs a Department for Rehabilitation of Traumatic Brain Injury, as well as Programmes for Health and Human Rights and for Religious Health Assets in Norway. Having spent much of his professional life combating diseases and helping people regain function after serious injuries, he knows there is much more to life and health than fighting the causes of death. Life, immensely richer and more important than the absence of death, requires in his view a generative spirit that both transcends and permeates the physical universe, embracing all humans with love and instigating hope even in the face of death.
Ellen Idler
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology at Emory's Religion and Public Health Collaborative, with additional appointments at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory's Center for Ethics, and the Graduate Division of Religion. In this very interdisciplinary environment she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses across schools on a variety of topics including religion and public health, sociological aspects of health and illness, epidemiology of aging, comparative health systems, and social gerontology. She is the editor and contributing author of Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health (Oxford 2014). Current research interests include the determinants and consequences of global self-ratings of health, the role of chaplains in palliative care, and religion as a factor in community and individual health.
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Sociology at Emory's Religion and Public Health Collaborative, with additional appointments at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory's Center for Ethics, and the Graduate Division of Religion. In this very interdisciplinary environment she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses across schools on a variety of topics including religion and public health, sociological aspects of health and illness, epidemiology of aging, comparative health systems, and social gerontology. She is the editor and contributing author of Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health (Oxford 2014). Current research interests include the determinants and consequences of global self-ratings of health, the role of chaplains in palliative care, and religion as a factor in community and individual health.
Marcellino Jonas
Marcellino is a Capetonian whose teenage years straddled Apartheid and the “New” South Africa. He's a singleton, self-identified Gay man raised in a "Coloured" (indigenous mixed-race), female-headed, single-parent family. Brought up in a Dutch Reformed Christian household, he now identifies as non-sectarian spiritual. A Pisces with a childhood curiosity in metaphysics and social sciences, he’s also an avid reader, whose youth was misspent as a volunteer locked up in the local library. Marcellino is an alumnus of the Raymond Ackerman Academy Of Entrepreneurial Development. He believes in the power of art, as transcending lifetimes and its ability to change worldviews and eventually material circumstances. Marcellino was a community researcher in the SCRATCHMAPS (Spiritual Capacities and Religious Assets for Transforming Community Health: Mobilizing Males for Peace and Safety) Project and has served as secretary to its derivative Building Bridges Mentoring Programme. He is a believer in self education as being more significant than formal curricula. Marcellino is a neophile with an aversion to social media.
Marcellino is a Capetonian whose teenage years straddled Apartheid and the “New” South Africa. He's a singleton, self-identified Gay man raised in a "Coloured" (indigenous mixed-race), female-headed, single-parent family. Brought up in a Dutch Reformed Christian household, he now identifies as non-sectarian spiritual. A Pisces with a childhood curiosity in metaphysics and social sciences, he’s also an avid reader, whose youth was misspent as a volunteer locked up in the local library. Marcellino is an alumnus of the Raymond Ackerman Academy Of Entrepreneurial Development. He believes in the power of art, as transcending lifetimes and its ability to change worldviews and eventually material circumstances. Marcellino was a community researcher in the SCRATCHMAPS (Spiritual Capacities and Religious Assets for Transforming Community Health: Mobilizing Males for Peace and Safety) Project and has served as secretary to its derivative Building Bridges Mentoring Programme. He is a believer in self education as being more significant than formal curricula. Marcellino is a neophile with an aversion to social media.
Maria Teresa Jones
Maria (M.Div, BCC, SD) iMariaTeresa is now a Retired Board Certified Chaplain through the Association of Pro-fessional Chaplain (APC), and has returned to their native island of Puerto Rico where they serves as the part time and only hospital chaplain of Ryder Hospital - a 110 year old hospital founded by missionaries. Also, as an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ, MariaTeresa continues to serve in their local church in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Now surrounded by glorious palm trees, blue ocean and a majestic tropical rainforest, MariaTeresa continues to lead their practice as a Certified Spiritual Director and Dreamwork Groupleader. As the Chaplain of Ryder Hospital, MariaTeresa will be responsible for restarting the Department of Chaplaincy which was lost after the devastation of category 5 Hurricane Maria September of 2017. They will provide spiritual support and grief counseling to patients, families, healthcare providers, and staff, they have also become part of Ryder's Crisis Management Team. MariaTeresa will continue to provide support and education on compassion fatigue, burnout, and moral distress with emphasis on self-care/self-compassion, and emotional resiliency. A veteran of the United States army, they also serves as a voluntary Chaplain to fellow veterans at the local American Legion Post. MariaTeresa, although retired, believes that "once a chaplain, is always a chaplain" and is thrilled to be back on their beloved 100 by 35 tropical paradise. MariaTeresa is deeply grateful for friends and colleagues of LCLI, AHWFB and WinstonSalem, NC who continue to support their journey of Loving and Caring for God's People and Creation.
Maria (M.Div, BCC, SD) iMariaTeresa is now a Retired Board Certified Chaplain through the Association of Pro-fessional Chaplain (APC), and has returned to their native island of Puerto Rico where they serves as the part time and only hospital chaplain of Ryder Hospital - a 110 year old hospital founded by missionaries. Also, as an ordained minister with the United Church of Christ, MariaTeresa continues to serve in their local church in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Now surrounded by glorious palm trees, blue ocean and a majestic tropical rainforest, MariaTeresa continues to lead their practice as a Certified Spiritual Director and Dreamwork Groupleader. As the Chaplain of Ryder Hospital, MariaTeresa will be responsible for restarting the Department of Chaplaincy which was lost after the devastation of category 5 Hurricane Maria September of 2017. They will provide spiritual support and grief counseling to patients, families, healthcare providers, and staff, they have also become part of Ryder's Crisis Management Team. MariaTeresa will continue to provide support and education on compassion fatigue, burnout, and moral distress with emphasis on self-care/self-compassion, and emotional resiliency. A veteran of the United States army, they also serves as a voluntary Chaplain to fellow veterans at the local American Legion Post. MariaTeresa, although retired, believes that "once a chaplain, is always a chaplain" and is thrilled to be back on their beloved 100 by 35 tropical paradise. MariaTeresa is deeply grateful for friends and colleagues of LCLI, AHWFB and WinstonSalem, NC who continue to support their journey of Loving and Caring for God's People and Creation.
Evance Kalula
Evance is Chairperson of the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA), the first African privileged to serve in the position. He is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town, Honorary Professor at the University of Rwanda and Visiting Professor at the National University of Lesotho (NUL). He holds several degrees in law, including a PhD. He was educated at several universities in Zambia and the England, including the University of Zambia; Kings College, London; Balliol College, Oxford (where he was a Rhodes scholar) and the University of Warwick. He is a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), Zambian Academy of Sciences, member of Council of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS). He previously served as Chair of the former South African Employment Conditions Commission (EEC); member of the ILO Commission of Inquiry on Freedom of Association in Zimbabwe; and member of the Ministerial Advisory Panel of the former South African Department of Economic Development (EDD). He is a lifetime member of the African Labour Law Society (ALLS), the International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) and the Labour and Employment Relations Association of South Africa (LERASA). He is also a recipient of the lifetime achievement award of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA), as well as a Past President.
Evance is Chairperson of the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA), the first African privileged to serve in the position. He is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town, Honorary Professor at the University of Rwanda and Visiting Professor at the National University of Lesotho (NUL). He holds several degrees in law, including a PhD. He was educated at several universities in Zambia and the England, including the University of Zambia; Kings College, London; Balliol College, Oxford (where he was a Rhodes scholar) and the University of Warwick. He is a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), Zambian Academy of Sciences, member of Council of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS). He previously served as Chair of the former South African Employment Conditions Commission (EEC); member of the ILO Commission of Inquiry on Freedom of Association in Zimbabwe; and member of the Ministerial Advisory Panel of the former South African Department of Economic Development (EDD). He is a lifetime member of the African Labour Law Society (ALLS), the International Education Association of South Africa (IEASA) and the Labour and Employment Relations Association of South Africa (LERASA). He is also a recipient of the lifetime achievement award of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA), as well as a Past President.
Mosi Kisare
Born and raised on the shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, Mosi holds a BA in Psychology (Goshen College, Indiana, USA) and MA in Rural Social Development (University of Reading, U.K.) Currently residing in Arusha, he supports the work of the EASUN Centre for Organizational Learning and serves as a private Organization Development (OD) consultant. His career began with the Christian Council of Tanzania and the All-Africa Conference of Churches, where he led their development departments. During this time, he initiated a strategic process to align Christian education and church project initiatives, creating a learning platform aimed at strengthening the Church in Africa's commitment to championing social transformation for a more humane and equitable society. This early work continues to influence his current efforts with civil society organizations (CSOs). In the early 1990s, Mosi played a key role in founding and facilitating a major networking initiative for NGOs in Eastern and Southern Africa (MWENGO), based in Harare, Zimbabwe, which focused on communications and civil society institutional development. Today, his work is focused on training leaders of CSOs in East Africa, emphasizing self-development and the acquisition of skills for facilitating transformative learning and change at individual, organizational, and community levels. Mosi believes that self-awareness, especially the authenticity aspect, is a crucial capacity for leaders to develop, particularly in the African context, where positional leadership often elevates individuals into the small, privileged elite class.
Born and raised on the shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, Mosi holds a BA in Psychology (Goshen College, Indiana, USA) and MA in Rural Social Development (University of Reading, U.K.) Currently residing in Arusha, he supports the work of the EASUN Centre for Organizational Learning and serves as a private Organization Development (OD) consultant. His career began with the Christian Council of Tanzania and the All-Africa Conference of Churches, where he led their development departments. During this time, he initiated a strategic process to align Christian education and church project initiatives, creating a learning platform aimed at strengthening the Church in Africa's commitment to championing social transformation for a more humane and equitable society. This early work continues to influence his current efforts with civil society organizations (CSOs). In the early 1990s, Mosi played a key role in founding and facilitating a major networking initiative for NGOs in Eastern and Southern Africa (MWENGO), based in Harare, Zimbabwe, which focused on communications and civil society institutional development. Today, his work is focused on training leaders of CSOs in East Africa, emphasizing self-development and the acquisition of skills for facilitating transformative learning and change at individual, organizational, and community levels. Mosi believes that self-awareness, especially the authenticity aspect, is a crucial capacity for leaders to develop, particularly in the African context, where positional leadership often elevates individuals into the small, privileged elite class.
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PhD candidate in University of Cape Town's Department for the Study of Religions on Meeting Hygieia, which encompasses Ancient Greek mythology of the divine physician Asklepios and the goddess/personification of Health, Hygieia, understood through Kantian philosophy. She is interested in ways of provoking pathways to wholeness, from within, in others. Her past work in social justice included work in adult literacy teaching, the directorship of the Black Sash Trust's Cape Town advice office, volunteering and activism in reading legislation and activism in the Society for the Abolition of the Death Penalty (abolished in 1996). She has worked professionally in her own organisational development consultancy and in South African art publishing field while putting a step-daughter's feet onto a future path. She was an academic mentor consultant to tertiary level students at UCT for 10 years. She is an emerging textile artist, and also teaches weaving and spinning.
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Horst Kleinschmidt
Horst, 'retired' but remains a very busy social activist, also researches Southern African History, German Colonial History, human rights and related matters. He has a long and deep history of political engagement against Apartheid in South Africa, and in building an equal and just society since. He was detained and held in solitary confinement a month after he was appointed as the Assistant to Beyers Naudé, Director of the Christian Institute of SA (banned in 1977). In exile from 1976, he became head of the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa in London for 10 years. On returning to SA, he worked with Lawyers for Human Rights, Kagiso Trust (a major development funding organisation), Mvula Trust (implementing water and sanitation supply in rural villages), and as a Civil Servant as Head of the Fisheries department in Government (initially employed to investigate corruption and malpractices). He remains active in civil society; Horst believes that people can change if given, education, self-awareness and exposure.
Horst, 'retired' but remains a very busy social activist, also researches Southern African History, German Colonial History, human rights and related matters. He has a long and deep history of political engagement against Apartheid in South Africa, and in building an equal and just society since. He was detained and held in solitary confinement a month after he was appointed as the Assistant to Beyers Naudé, Director of the Christian Institute of SA (banned in 1977). In exile from 1976, he became head of the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa in London for 10 years. On returning to SA, he worked with Lawyers for Human Rights, Kagiso Trust (a major development funding organisation), Mvula Trust (implementing water and sanitation supply in rural villages), and as a Civil Servant as Head of the Fisheries department in Government (initially employed to investigate corruption and malpractices). He remains active in civil society; Horst believes that people can change if given, education, self-awareness and exposure.
Michael Lapsley
New Zealand born, ordained into the Anglican Society of the Sacred Mission (SSM), Michael came to South Africa in 1973 as a student, and was soon chaplain to students at both black and white universities in Durban. Speaking out in 1976, the year of the Soweto Uprising, on behalf of schoolchildren who were being shot, detained and tortured, he was consequently expelled from the country, went to Lesotho, became a member of the African National Congress and a chaplain to the organisation in exile, and travelled the world to mobilise faith communities to oppose Apartheid. A South African police raid in Maseru in 1982 that killed 42 people forced him to move to Zimbabwe where, in 1990, after Mandela’s release, he was sent a letter bomb by the apartheid regime, losing both hands, sight in one eye, and being seriously burnt. He returned to South Africa in 1992 to become Chaplain of the Trauma Centre for Victims of Violence and Torture in Cape Town, assisting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which led to the establishment in 1998 of the Institute for Healing of Memories in Cape Town. It allows South Africans to tell their stories and work through their trauma, work Michael has also done elsewhere in Africa and the world. He has received several honorary doctorates and been awarded the Queen's Service Medal by New Zealand, also serving as Honorary Consul for New Zealand in Cape Town for 18 years. Fr Michael was Vice President of the South African Council of Churches from 2014-2017. For the fifth anniversary of 9/11 in 2006, he joined terror victims from around the world and families of those killed in the 11 September attacks to create the International Network for Peace to promote effective and nonviolent solutions to terrorism. Recipient of the 2021 Niwano Peace Prize, he is President of the Healing of Memories Global Network.
New Zealand born, ordained into the Anglican Society of the Sacred Mission (SSM), Michael came to South Africa in 1973 as a student, and was soon chaplain to students at both black and white universities in Durban. Speaking out in 1976, the year of the Soweto Uprising, on behalf of schoolchildren who were being shot, detained and tortured, he was consequently expelled from the country, went to Lesotho, became a member of the African National Congress and a chaplain to the organisation in exile, and travelled the world to mobilise faith communities to oppose Apartheid. A South African police raid in Maseru in 1982 that killed 42 people forced him to move to Zimbabwe where, in 1990, after Mandela’s release, he was sent a letter bomb by the apartheid regime, losing both hands, sight in one eye, and being seriously burnt. He returned to South Africa in 1992 to become Chaplain of the Trauma Centre for Victims of Violence and Torture in Cape Town, assisting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which led to the establishment in 1998 of the Institute for Healing of Memories in Cape Town. It allows South Africans to tell their stories and work through their trauma, work Michael has also done elsewhere in Africa and the world. He has received several honorary doctorates and been awarded the Queen's Service Medal by New Zealand, also serving as Honorary Consul for New Zealand in Cape Town for 18 years. Fr Michael was Vice President of the South African Council of Churches from 2014-2017. For the fifth anniversary of 9/11 in 2006, he joined terror victims from around the world and families of those killed in the 11 September attacks to create the International Network for Peace to promote effective and nonviolent solutions to terrorism. Recipient of the 2021 Niwano Peace Prize, he is President of the Healing of Memories Global Network.
Paul Laurienti
Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine and director of the Laboratory for Complex Brain Networks (LCBN). Paul leads a team pioneering the use of complexity theory and network science to understanding the brain as a complex, integrated network. They apply network science methods to human brain imaging studies. The focus of our research includes understanding the aging brain, the effects of alcohol on the brain, and the effects of pesticides in Latino farmworker children. Recent new directions include studying the relationship between brain networks and gut bacteria (the gut-brain axis) and the effects of the new obesity drugs (think Ozempic) on brain networks that underlie food and alcohol craving. Paul is an avid and amazing grower of orchids!
Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine and director of the Laboratory for Complex Brain Networks (LCBN). Paul leads a team pioneering the use of complexity theory and network science to understanding the brain as a complex, integrated network. They apply network science methods to human brain imaging studies. The focus of our research includes understanding the aging brain, the effects of alcohol on the brain, and the effects of pesticides in Latino farmworker children. Recent new directions include studying the relationship between brain networks and gut bacteria (the gut-brain axis) and the effects of the new obesity drugs (think Ozempic) on brain networks that underlie food and alcohol craving. Paul is an avid and amazing grower of orchids!
Sandy Lazarus
A retired professor from the University of Western Cape and the South African Medical Research Council/University of South Africa’s Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, Sandy’s professional experience and expertise is in community psychology (education and health sectors). An academic activist, researcher and teacher, she contributed to local, provincial, national and international contexts over four decades. This has included national policy development and practice in education (on the development of an inclusive education system and education support services in South Africa); national policy development and practice in health promotion (specifically in the development of health promoting schools); and research methodology, with a particular focus on the development of community engaged research through participatory action research approaches. Over the last phase of her career, she focused particularly on violence, violence prevention, and safety and peace promotion in South Africa. Sandy lives in Hout Bay, Western Cape.
A retired professor from the University of Western Cape and the South African Medical Research Council/University of South Africa’s Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, Sandy’s professional experience and expertise is in community psychology (education and health sectors). An academic activist, researcher and teacher, she contributed to local, provincial, national and international contexts over four decades. This has included national policy development and practice in education (on the development of an inclusive education system and education support services in South Africa); national policy development and practice in health promotion (specifically in the development of health promoting schools); and research methodology, with a particular focus on the development of community engaged research through participatory action research approaches. Over the last phase of her career, she focused particularly on violence, violence prevention, and safety and peace promotion in South Africa. Sandy lives in Hout Bay, Western Cape.
Jørn Lemvik [withdrawn but still supports LCLI, so we keep him in mind and on site]
Immediate past Secretary General of Digni, Norway, continues as a Special Advisor until retirement. Digni is an umbrella organisation for 20 Norwegian mission societies and churches engaged in long-term development cooperation that manages a multi-year agreement with Norad , and actively works against corruption and systematically to build solid organizations and competent management at all levels. Jørn has a special interest in the leadership and the role of the civil society in development work, including a focus on the importance of religious actors. He has been a visiting fellow at World Faiths Development Dialogue, Washington D.C, and spent 13 years in Ethiopia and a year in Kenya, followed by many more years traveling around the world. Though he says “I am not an academic. I have no papers or reports for you. I am a storyteller,” he has intensively engaged as a thinker and practitioner on organization and leadership, communication, conflicts, and partnerships in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Immediate past Secretary General of Digni, Norway, continues as a Special Advisor until retirement. Digni is an umbrella organisation for 20 Norwegian mission societies and churches engaged in long-term development cooperation that manages a multi-year agreement with Norad , and actively works against corruption and systematically to build solid organizations and competent management at all levels. Jørn has a special interest in the leadership and the role of the civil society in development work, including a focus on the importance of religious actors. He has been a visiting fellow at World Faiths Development Dialogue, Washington D.C, and spent 13 years in Ethiopia and a year in Kenya, followed by many more years traveling around the world. Though he says “I am not an academic. I have no papers or reports for you. I am a storyteller,” he has intensively engaged as a thinker and practitioner on organization and leadership, communication, conflicts, and partnerships in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Leslie London
Professor in the School of of Public Health and Family Medecine, University of Cape Town (UCT), Leslie is a physician with a strong occupational, environmental and public health focus orientated toward civil society participation and agency in realizing the Right to Health. After a few years working for Trade Union-linked health services before moving to UCT, he 'shifted from being a quantitative epidemiologist to thinking about how to integrate human rights into Public Health practice.' Leslie, for whom social justice is fundamental and persistence a virtue, believes that 'we should constantly struggle to help create a better world- which is possible.' He lives this metaphorically by cycling, falling off bicycles, and getting back on again.
Professor in the School of of Public Health and Family Medecine, University of Cape Town (UCT), Leslie is a physician with a strong occupational, environmental and public health focus orientated toward civil society participation and agency in realizing the Right to Health. After a few years working for Trade Union-linked health services before moving to UCT, he 'shifted from being a quantitative epidemiologist to thinking about how to integrate human rights into Public Health practice.' Leslie, for whom social justice is fundamental and persistence a virtue, believes that 'we should constantly struggle to help create a better world- which is possible.' He lives this metaphorically by cycling, falling off bicycles, and getting back on again.
Andy McCarroll
Andy has a BA and JD from Vanderbilt University, and MA University of Chicago Divinity School. He is General Counsel, Southeastern Asset Management, Inc., offices in Memphis, London, and Singapore. Prior to that, he spent several years practicing corporate and securities law at a Nashville law firm.
Andy has a BA and JD from Vanderbilt University, and MA University of Chicago Divinity School. He is General Counsel, Southeastern Asset Management, Inc., offices in Memphis, London, and Singapore. Prior to that, he spent several years practicing corporate and securities law at a Nashville law firm.
Douglas McGaughey
Emeritus Professor in Religious Studies, Willamette University, OR. He completed his doctorate under Paul Ricoeur at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He is the author of a trilogy of books in Philosophical, Systematic, and Practical Theology as well as the editor of a Festschrift in honor of Herman Waetjen at the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, CA. His translation of Otfried Höffe’s Can Virtue Make Us Happy? The Art of Living and Morality was published by Northwestern University Press in 2010. A Fulbright Senior Fellow during 1992-1993 in Tübingen, in 2006 he was among the prize winners of an essay contest sponsored by Das Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Germany on the question ‘Braucht Werterziehung Religion?’, published by the Wallstein Verlag in Göttingen in 2007. In 2010, he participated in a conference under Otfried Höffe on Kant’s Religion Within the Limits of Mere Reason, his paper subsequently being published in Immanuel Kant: Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft (Berlin: Akadamie Verlag, 2010). He is a Corresponding Member of the Research Center for Political Philosophy (Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Forschungsstelle Politische Philosophie) at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen. He is host of the website http://www.criticalidealism.org.
Emeritus Professor in Religious Studies, Willamette University, OR. He completed his doctorate under Paul Ricoeur at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He is the author of a trilogy of books in Philosophical, Systematic, and Practical Theology as well as the editor of a Festschrift in honor of Herman Waetjen at the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, CA. His translation of Otfried Höffe’s Can Virtue Make Us Happy? The Art of Living and Morality was published by Northwestern University Press in 2010. A Fulbright Senior Fellow during 1992-1993 in Tübingen, in 2006 he was among the prize winners of an essay contest sponsored by Das Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Germany on the question ‘Braucht Werterziehung Religion?’, published by the Wallstein Verlag in Göttingen in 2007. In 2010, he participated in a conference under Otfried Höffe on Kant’s Religion Within the Limits of Mere Reason, his paper subsequently being published in Immanuel Kant: Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft (Berlin: Akadamie Verlag, 2010). He is a Corresponding Member of the Research Center for Political Philosophy (Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Forschungsstelle Politische Philosophie) at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen. He is host of the website http://www.criticalidealism.org.
Bobby Milstein
Bobby, PhD, MPH, works with innovators who see themselves – and others – as shared stewards in a movement for well-being and justice. He is most inspired when working with passionate, loving people who are serious about becoming good stewards of an equitable, thriving future. He serves as Director of System Strategy for ReThink Health and the Rippel Foundation, as well as a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. With an educational background that combines cultural anthropology, behavioral science, and systems science, he helps organize efforts to spark large-scale institutional and cultural change. With input from countless contributors, Bobby helped to craft the vital conditions framework and was lead editor of the “Thriving Together Springboard”. He is a member of the National Academies Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, co-founder of the Well Being in the Nation (WIN) Network, and an invited contributor to the National Academies’ consensus study on health equity as well as the Surgeon General’s Report on Community Health and Economic Prosperity. Bobby is a frequent design consultant for new endeavors that advance the dynamic and democratic frontiers of shared stewardship. Previously, Bobby spent 20 years planning and evaluating system-oriented initiatives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he was the principal architect of CDC’s framework for program evaluation. He received CDC’s Honor Award for Excellence in Innovation, the Applications Award from the System Dynamics Society, the President's Prize from the American Evaluation Association, as well as Article of the Year awards for papers published in Health Affairs and Health Promotion Practice. Outside of work Bobby plays tennis and cooks. He is married to Joanna Davidson, an anthropologist who studies political ecology and social transformation primarily in West Africa. Their daughter, Jasper, is a fiery redhead who is quick to step onto any stage; and their son, Zoly, is a clever jokester with a surprisingly long memory.
Bobby, PhD, MPH, works with innovators who see themselves – and others – as shared stewards in a movement for well-being and justice. He is most inspired when working with passionate, loving people who are serious about becoming good stewards of an equitable, thriving future. He serves as Director of System Strategy for ReThink Health and the Rippel Foundation, as well as a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. With an educational background that combines cultural anthropology, behavioral science, and systems science, he helps organize efforts to spark large-scale institutional and cultural change. With input from countless contributors, Bobby helped to craft the vital conditions framework and was lead editor of the “Thriving Together Springboard”. He is a member of the National Academies Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, co-founder of the Well Being in the Nation (WIN) Network, and an invited contributor to the National Academies’ consensus study on health equity as well as the Surgeon General’s Report on Community Health and Economic Prosperity. Bobby is a frequent design consultant for new endeavors that advance the dynamic and democratic frontiers of shared stewardship. Previously, Bobby spent 20 years planning and evaluating system-oriented initiatives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he was the principal architect of CDC’s framework for program evaluation. He received CDC’s Honor Award for Excellence in Innovation, the Applications Award from the System Dynamics Society, the President's Prize from the American Evaluation Association, as well as Article of the Year awards for papers published in Health Affairs and Health Promotion Practice. Outside of work Bobby plays tennis and cooks. He is married to Joanna Davidson, an anthropologist who studies political ecology and social transformation primarily in West Africa. Their daughter, Jasper, is a fiery redhead who is quick to step onto any stage; and their son, Zoly, is a clever jokester with a surprisingly long memory.
Jeremy Moseley
Jeremy, with a BSc in public health (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and a Master’s of Public Health (East Carolina University) majoring in Public Health Analysis and Management, is Area Vice President of Community and Faith Health, Southeast Region, Community and Social Impact Division, at Atrium Health. He leads a team of more than 60 plus the departments of Community Health Prevention and Promotion, Mobile Health, Community Health Needs Assessment, Faith Community Health Ministry, and Faith Programs and Partnerships. His aim is wholistic care for patients and community members through partnerships, including helping patients and community members overcome physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and economic barriers to wellbeing. This encompasses advanced practice providers, certified medical assistants, program coordinators, nutritionists, public health nurses and professionals, faith community nurses, health promoters, connectors, supporters of health, coordinators, chaplain managers, faith network and nonprofit partners, and contracted vendors. Involved, too, in Population Health, he has facilitated support for community-based clinical services offered through the creation of a multi-disciplinary model at an underserved clinic, a community mobile clinic, and other services integrated in community settings as access points. At the health system level, he serves on various diversity, equity, and inclusion led and related committees and work groups. At the enterprise level, he has a leadership role in the integration of enterprise health equity and social impact bodies of work, programs, and projects related to community particularly focusing on faith programs and strategies’ integration with community health best practice. He also serves on the social drivers of health subcommittee of the Advocate National Center for Health Equity, and is currently a member of the North Carolina Medical Journal Editorial board, North Carolina Community Health Worker Association, The Foundation for a Healthy High Point, and others. Also, he was a member of class thirty of Leadership North Carolina. When he is not serving in these capacities, Jeremy enjoys spending time with his family and his new son, listening to music, focusing on physical and spiritual health, cooking, reading, studying history, playing with his two dogs, and furthering interests in real estate as a licensed broker.
Jeremy, with a BSc in public health (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and a Master’s of Public Health (East Carolina University) majoring in Public Health Analysis and Management, is Area Vice President of Community and Faith Health, Southeast Region, Community and Social Impact Division, at Atrium Health. He leads a team of more than 60 plus the departments of Community Health Prevention and Promotion, Mobile Health, Community Health Needs Assessment, Faith Community Health Ministry, and Faith Programs and Partnerships. His aim is wholistic care for patients and community members through partnerships, including helping patients and community members overcome physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and economic barriers to wellbeing. This encompasses advanced practice providers, certified medical assistants, program coordinators, nutritionists, public health nurses and professionals, faith community nurses, health promoters, connectors, supporters of health, coordinators, chaplain managers, faith network and nonprofit partners, and contracted vendors. Involved, too, in Population Health, he has facilitated support for community-based clinical services offered through the creation of a multi-disciplinary model at an underserved clinic, a community mobile clinic, and other services integrated in community settings as access points. At the health system level, he serves on various diversity, equity, and inclusion led and related committees and work groups. At the enterprise level, he has a leadership role in the integration of enterprise health equity and social impact bodies of work, programs, and projects related to community particularly focusing on faith programs and strategies’ integration with community health best practice. He also serves on the social drivers of health subcommittee of the Advocate National Center for Health Equity, and is currently a member of the North Carolina Medical Journal Editorial board, North Carolina Community Health Worker Association, The Foundation for a Healthy High Point, and others. Also, he was a member of class thirty of Leadership North Carolina. When he is not serving in these capacities, Jeremy enjoys spending time with his family and his new son, listening to music, focusing on physical and spiritual health, cooking, reading, studying history, playing with his two dogs, and furthering interests in real estate as a licensed broker.
Eva Moya
Eva (MSc,PhD) is Associate Professor, Dept of Social Work, College ofHealth Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso. A native of the U.S.-Mexico border, trained in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences and Social Work, Eva is a specialist in border health, publishing extensively on health disparities and infectious disease, homelessness, intimate partner violence, HPV, TB and HIV/AIDS, Photovoice method, and community health workers. She has been Director for the U.S. Section of the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission, the Border Vision Fronteriza Outreach Project (University of Arizona), Centro San Vicente Social Services, and women’s health and youth sexuality education endeavors in Mexico, and Advocacy, Com-munication and Social Mobilization Coordinator for SOLUCION TB Expansion with Project Concern International, also directing the PIMSA Transborder Tuberculosis and Stigma Project, and Intimate Partner Violence and Voices and Images of Domestic Violence research projects. A Kellogg National Leadership Fellow, Eva conducted studies in service-learning and homelessness throughout the world. She serves in various social justice boards and, in 2019, received the UTEP Community Engaged Scholar award, also being inducted for civic leadership to theWomen’s Hall of Fame in El Paso. She finds immense joy in spending quality time with family, friends, and embarking in community-engaged initiatives.
Eva (MSc,PhD) is Associate Professor, Dept of Social Work, College ofHealth Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso. A native of the U.S.-Mexico border, trained in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences and Social Work, Eva is a specialist in border health, publishing extensively on health disparities and infectious disease, homelessness, intimate partner violence, HPV, TB and HIV/AIDS, Photovoice method, and community health workers. She has been Director for the U.S. Section of the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission, the Border Vision Fronteriza Outreach Project (University of Arizona), Centro San Vicente Social Services, and women’s health and youth sexuality education endeavors in Mexico, and Advocacy, Com-munication and Social Mobilization Coordinator for SOLUCION TB Expansion with Project Concern International, also directing the PIMSA Transborder Tuberculosis and Stigma Project, and Intimate Partner Violence and Voices and Images of Domestic Violence research projects. A Kellogg National Leadership Fellow, Eva conducted studies in service-learning and homelessness throughout the world. She serves in various social justice boards and, in 2019, received the UTEP Community Engaged Scholar award, also being inducted for civic leadership to theWomen’s Hall of Fame in El Paso. She finds immense joy in spending quality time with family, friends, and embarking in community-engaged initiatives.
Malusi Mpumiwana
Retired bishop of the Ethiopian Episcopal Church, is General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), spearheading common Christian action for moral witness in South Africa on issues of social and economic justice, national reconciliation, the integrity of creation, eradication of poverty, and the empowerment of all those who are spiritually, socially and economically marginalized. He spearheads the SACC campaign of The South Africa We Pray For, with its five pillars of Healing & Reconciliation, Family Fabric, Poverty & Inequality, Economic Transformation, and Anchoring Democracy – all in the promise of a just, reconciled, peaceful, equitable and sustainable society free of racial, tribal, xenophobic and gender prejudices, of corruption and deprivation, with enough food and shelter for all, and for each child to grow to its God-given potential. Trained at the Federal Theological Seminary, University of Cape Town, and the University of Notre Dame, his is the contextual theology approach that reflects on momentous challenges to distill those elements that cry out for intervention, failing which history would judge adversely - a Kairos Theology.
Retired bishop of the Ethiopian Episcopal Church, is General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), spearheading common Christian action for moral witness in South Africa on issues of social and economic justice, national reconciliation, the integrity of creation, eradication of poverty, and the empowerment of all those who are spiritually, socially and economically marginalized. He spearheads the SACC campaign of The South Africa We Pray For, with its five pillars of Healing & Reconciliation, Family Fabric, Poverty & Inequality, Economic Transformation, and Anchoring Democracy – all in the promise of a just, reconciled, peaceful, equitable and sustainable society free of racial, tribal, xenophobic and gender prejudices, of corruption and deprivation, with enough food and shelter for all, and for each child to grow to its God-given potential. Trained at the Federal Theological Seminary, University of Cape Town, and the University of Notre Dame, his is the contextual theology approach that reflects on momentous challenges to distill those elements that cry out for intervention, failing which history would judge adversely - a Kairos Theology.
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Shingai Ndinga
Shingai is a Congolese and Zimbabwean, passionate about ethnochoreology, dance, technology and politics within certain parts of Africa. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and French Language & Literature from the University of Cape Town. He has also engaged in Choreomundus - an International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage that have given him opportunities to study with four partner universities in France, Hungary, the United Kingdom, and Norway — where he spent time doing his research. Being a former refugee from the 1997 Congo war in Brazzaville, he has had a deep leaning to understand the structures that underpin the world we live in, and the reasons why we do what we actually do. He is excited about LCLI because the framework shifts many of these underpinnings from looking at death, to looking at life itself and what actually brings life to one's world or the world as we know it in general. He has a precious daughter called 'Elikia' (which means 'Hope' in the Congolese language Lingala). Shingai is currently in the UK, involved in research that focuses on ritualistic dances performed at funerals that celebrate life in the face of death.
Shingai is a Congolese and Zimbabwean, passionate about ethnochoreology, dance, technology and politics within certain parts of Africa. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and French Language & Literature from the University of Cape Town. He has also engaged in Choreomundus - an International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage that have given him opportunities to study with four partner universities in France, Hungary, the United Kingdom, and Norway — where he spent time doing his research. Being a former refugee from the 1997 Congo war in Brazzaville, he has had a deep leaning to understand the structures that underpin the world we live in, and the reasons why we do what we actually do. He is excited about LCLI because the framework shifts many of these underpinnings from looking at death, to looking at life itself and what actually brings life to one's world or the world as we know it in general. He has a precious daughter called 'Elikia' (which means 'Hope' in the Congolese language Lingala). Shingai is currently in the UK, involved in research that focuses on ritualistic dances performed at funerals that celebrate life in the face of death.
Bret Nicks
Professor and Executive Vice Chair, Emergency Medicine, Director EM Administrative Leadership Fellowship, Past President North Carolina College of Emergency Physicians, Affiliate Faculty Office of Global Health. His interests include Emergency Medicine and Leadership development, global health integration in resource austere settings, and Community/Health System partnerships. He has served in developmental, educational, clinical, administrative and diplomatic roles in more than15 countries worldwide with numerous NGO and governmental organizations. His current passion is the interface of leadership development and the practice of medicine. He blogs on leadership topics at www.bretnicksmd.com/blog and loves spending time outdoors especially with family and friends. Coming from a disadvantaged background, Bret is motivated by a desire to serve others regardless of situation or circumstance. And he continues to learn daily lessons about how to be a better father and husband – some that stick, others that require a bit of repetition.
Professor and Executive Vice Chair, Emergency Medicine, Director EM Administrative Leadership Fellowship, Past President North Carolina College of Emergency Physicians, Affiliate Faculty Office of Global Health. His interests include Emergency Medicine and Leadership development, global health integration in resource austere settings, and Community/Health System partnerships. He has served in developmental, educational, clinical, administrative and diplomatic roles in more than15 countries worldwide with numerous NGO and governmental organizations. His current passion is the interface of leadership development and the practice of medicine. He blogs on leadership topics at www.bretnicksmd.com/blog and loves spending time outdoors especially with family and friends. Coming from a disadvantaged background, Bret is motivated by a desire to serve others regardless of situation or circumstance. And he continues to learn daily lessons about how to be a better father and husband – some that stick, others that require a bit of repetition.
Norris, Tyler
With a Master of Divinity, Tyler is a social entrepreneur and trusted advisor to philanthropies and partnerships working to improve the well-being of people and place. For four decades he has shaped health and development initiatives in communities across the U.S. and around the world; and built over a dozen business and social ventures. Tyler currently serves as co-founder and convenor of the CEO Alliance for Mental Health, as a Visiting Scholar with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as a board member for Mindful Philanthropy and the National Academies of Sciences’ Child Well Being Forum. Tyler is active as a chaplain and crisis intervention team leader, as an advisor to the Global Flourishing Study, and previously served as a board member and chair of Naropa University. Over the decades, Tyler helped facilitate the opening of the Abraham Path through the heart of the Middle East; and led the Kuhiston Foundation to help establish the national park system and micro-finance in Tajikistan. He lives in between Ketchum Idaho and Oakland, California, USA.
With a Master of Divinity, Tyler is a social entrepreneur and trusted advisor to philanthropies and partnerships working to improve the well-being of people and place. For four decades he has shaped health and development initiatives in communities across the U.S. and around the world; and built over a dozen business and social ventures. Tyler currently serves as co-founder and convenor of the CEO Alliance for Mental Health, as a Visiting Scholar with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as a board member for Mindful Philanthropy and the National Academies of Sciences’ Child Well Being Forum. Tyler is active as a chaplain and crisis intervention team leader, as an advisor to the Global Flourishing Study, and previously served as a board member and chair of Naropa University. Over the decades, Tyler helped facilitate the opening of the Abraham Path through the heart of the Middle East; and led the Kuhiston Foundation to help establish the national park system and micro-finance in Tajikistan. He lives in between Ketchum Idaho and Oakland, California, USA.
Jill Olivier
With a PhD from the University of Cape Town, Jill isAssociate Professor and Research Director of the International Health Assets Programme, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, does research and teaching in/on multiple low-and-middle income settings across Africa, Asia-Pacific and the LAC region. She leads a large post-graduate teaching program on health systems research and the sociology of health and illness. She is the PI of several completed and current multi-country studies, such as a current four-year grant on health system ‘responsive-ness’. She works as a social scientist within the field of health policy and systems research, has a particular interest in areas of ‘intersection’ (integrating non-state providers, community, intersectorality and interdisciplinarity); as well as communication; implementation; history; hermeneutics; and culture.
With a PhD from the University of Cape Town, Jill isAssociate Professor and Research Director of the International Health Assets Programme, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, does research and teaching in/on multiple low-and-middle income settings across Africa, Asia-Pacific and the LAC region. She leads a large post-graduate teaching program on health systems research and the sociology of health and illness. She is the PI of several completed and current multi-country studies, such as a current four-year grant on health system ‘responsive-ness’. She works as a social scientist within the field of health policy and systems research, has a particular interest in areas of ‘intersection’ (integrating non-state providers, community, intersectorality and interdisciplinarity); as well as communication; implementation; history; hermeneutics; and culture.
Laura Chanchien Parajón
MD, MPH, is a family physician, serving in Nicaragua as a American Baptist International Ministries missionary alongside her husband David, an internist since 2001, with him founding the Nicaragua-based non-profit organization, AMOS Health and Hope (amoshealth.org), which is dedicated to using community-based and empowering approaches to reduce health inequities. Trained in family medicine and public health, Laura applies Community-based participatory research (CBPR) frameworks in global health to develop future health professionals and community health workers (CHWs) to provide basic medical care, disease prevention and health promotion to their communities as well as organize to address social determinants of health and advocate for social and policy change.
MD, MPH, is a family physician, serving in Nicaragua as a American Baptist International Ministries missionary alongside her husband David, an internist since 2001, with him founding the Nicaragua-based non-profit organization, AMOS Health and Hope (amoshealth.org), which is dedicated to using community-based and empowering approaches to reduce health inequities. Trained in family medicine and public health, Laura applies Community-based participatory research (CBPR) frameworks in global health to develop future health professionals and community health workers (CHWs) to provide basic medical care, disease prevention and health promotion to their communities as well as organize to address social determinants of health and advocate for social and policy change.
Kenneth I Pargament
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, and Adjunct Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine. Ken specialize in clinical/community psychology and the psychology of religion and spirituality. Mentoring over 40 Ph. D. graduate students, he has been a consultant with NIH, WHO, Templeton Foundation, and Fetzer Institute. Editor-in-chief of the APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality, among his many publications is Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Understanding and Addressing the Sacred. Most recently, he published (with Julie Exline) Working with Spiritual Struggles in Psychotherapy: From Research to Practice. He is currently involved in global efforts to catalyze training of mental health students and professionals in spiritually integrated and competent care. Ken went into psychology because he was ‘interested in the big questions: Why are we here? How should we live our lives? How can we make the world a better place?’
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, and Adjunct Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine. Ken specialize in clinical/community psychology and the psychology of religion and spirituality. Mentoring over 40 Ph. D. graduate students, he has been a consultant with NIH, WHO, Templeton Foundation, and Fetzer Institute. Editor-in-chief of the APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality, among his many publications is Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Understanding and Addressing the Sacred. Most recently, he published (with Julie Exline) Working with Spiritual Struggles in Psychotherapy: From Research to Practice. He is currently involved in global efforts to catalyze training of mental health students and professionals in spiritually integrated and competent care. Ken went into psychology because he was ‘interested in the big questions: Why are we here? How should we live our lives? How can we make the world a better place?’
Kirsten Peachey
Kirsten (MSW, MDiv., DMin.) serves Advocate Health Midwest as Vice President for Faith Outreach, leading partnerships with faith community stakeholders and affiliated denominational sponsors. Kirsten contributes nationally to the field of faith and health and is known for convening and growing collaborative networks to solve for the root causes of health inequities. She was a founder of The Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation, a collaborative effort to work alongside faith communities to address the social conditions that impact community health. She also worked with partners to convene the Chicagoland Trauma Informed Congregations Network to equip faith communities to respond to trauma and adversity in the community with restorative, healing centered ministries. Under Kirsten’s leadership, Advocate Health Midwest has become a trailblazer in the field of faith and community health, particularly in engaging faith communities as partners in promoting health equity. Ordained in the United Church of Christ, Kirsten holds Doctor of Ministry and Master of Divinity degrees from the Chicago Theological Seminary and a Master of Arts in Social Work degree from the University of Chicago.
Kirsten (MSW, MDiv., DMin.) serves Advocate Health Midwest as Vice President for Faith Outreach, leading partnerships with faith community stakeholders and affiliated denominational sponsors. Kirsten contributes nationally to the field of faith and health and is known for convening and growing collaborative networks to solve for the root causes of health inequities. She was a founder of The Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation, a collaborative effort to work alongside faith communities to address the social conditions that impact community health. She also worked with partners to convene the Chicagoland Trauma Informed Congregations Network to equip faith communities to respond to trauma and adversity in the community with restorative, healing centered ministries. Under Kirsten’s leadership, Advocate Health Midwest has become a trailblazer in the field of faith and community health, particularly in engaging faith communities as partners in promoting health equity. Ordained in the United Church of Christ, Kirsten holds Doctor of Ministry and Master of Divinity degrees from the Chicago Theological Seminary and a Master of Arts in Social Work degree from the University of Chicago.
Tom Peterson
TTom is principal at Cosmorock.org, which is focused on world change and is the author of Want to Change the World? He taught marketing for non-profits and social change at the Clinton School of Public Service for 15 years and has managed communications for Stakeholder Health. Previously, he led Heifer International's marketing efforts for most of two decades, growing the annual revenue from $3 million to $90 million —raising about $900 million and making Heifer one of the fastest growing non-profits in the U.S. In the 1980s he edited Seeds, a magazine about U.S and World Hunger. Peterson holds a BA in philosophy from the Univ. of Texas and an MDiv from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
TTom is principal at Cosmorock.org, which is focused on world change and is the author of Want to Change the World? He taught marketing for non-profits and social change at the Clinton School of Public Service for 15 years and has managed communications for Stakeholder Health. Previously, he led Heifer International's marketing efforts for most of two decades, growing the annual revenue from $3 million to $90 million —raising about $900 million and making Heifer one of the fastest growing non-profits in the U.S. In the 1980s he edited Seeds, a magazine about U.S and World Hunger. Peterson holds a BA in philosophy from the Univ. of Texas and an MDiv from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Larry Pray
Larry is co-author with Gary Gunderson of The Leading Causes of Life, the book that launched the ideas that lie at the core of this Initiative. More recently he authored a book richly mixed with his own reflections and paintings on Thresholds: Connecting Body and Soul after Brain Injury (Ruder Finn Press). Before that he published Journey of a Diabetic with Simon and Schuster. His interests lie in creativity and healing, chronic disease, and … finding life in unlikely places! Larry, par excellence a pastor, writer, poet and painter, graduated from Union Theological Seminary (MDiv), having received an MA at Johns Hopkins University, and a BA at Beloit College. Larry’s deeply insightful and powerfully evocative poems and paintings following a series of strokes, and created for as many Fellows as he was able, are a central, vital element of our self-understanding.
Larry is co-author with Gary Gunderson of The Leading Causes of Life, the book that launched the ideas that lie at the core of this Initiative. More recently he authored a book richly mixed with his own reflections and paintings on Thresholds: Connecting Body and Soul after Brain Injury (Ruder Finn Press). Before that he published Journey of a Diabetic with Simon and Schuster. His interests lie in creativity and healing, chronic disease, and … finding life in unlikely places! Larry, par excellence a pastor, writer, poet and painter, graduated from Union Theological Seminary (MDiv), having received an MA at Johns Hopkins University, and a BA at Beloit College. Larry’s deeply insightful and powerfully evocative poems and paintings following a series of strokes, and created for as many Fellows as he was able, are a central, vital element of our self-understanding.
Gertrude Pswarayi
Gertrude, from Zimbabwe, is a seasoned development professional proficient in communication, new business development and programmes coordination. She has worked in Southern Africa on diverse social issues including agriculture, climate change, sexual and reproductive health, information and communication technologies for social change and women empowerment. She is the winner of the 2011 Kurt Schork International Journalism and founder of a non-profit making organisation working to advance women and communication rights in Zimbabwe. Gertrude holds a MSc. degree in Development Studies and a BSc degree in Journalism and Media Studies. Currently, Gertrude is studying Earth Jurisprudence, an emerging field of law that encompasses both environmental and legal practice. She lives in Bulawayo, southern Zimbabwe.
Gertrude, from Zimbabwe, is a seasoned development professional proficient in communication, new business development and programmes coordination. She has worked in Southern Africa on diverse social issues including agriculture, climate change, sexual and reproductive health, information and communication technologies for social change and women empowerment. She is the winner of the 2011 Kurt Schork International Journalism and founder of a non-profit making organisation working to advance women and communication rights in Zimbabwe. Gertrude holds a MSc. degree in Development Studies and a BSc degree in Journalism and Media Studies. Currently, Gertrude is studying Earth Jurisprudence, an emerging field of law that encompasses both environmental and legal practice. She lives in Bulawayo, southern Zimbabwe.
Doug Reeler
Social change facilitator and publisher for Tamarind Tree Associates and the Barefoot Guide Connection, based in Cape Town. His work focuses on designing and facilitating social change processes with a wide range of actors towards developing more effective social change practices and co-creative, collaborative organisational forms. His particular interest is the creative contribution of civil society in search of more freedom, inclusion and sufficiency. He has done work with NGOs and social movements across Africa, Asia and Europe. He has co-pioneered the Barefoot Guides to Social Change over the past 10 years, supporting the publishing of the experience, wisdom and voices of grassroots leadership and practitioners whose inclusion and contribution are vital and often central to any positive social change.
Social change facilitator and publisher for Tamarind Tree Associates and the Barefoot Guide Connection, based in Cape Town. His work focuses on designing and facilitating social change processes with a wide range of actors towards developing more effective social change practices and co-creative, collaborative organisational forms. His particular interest is the creative contribution of civil society in search of more freedom, inclusion and sufficiency. He has done work with NGOs and social movements across Africa, Asia and Europe. He has co-pioneered the Barefoot Guides to Social Change over the past 10 years, supporting the publishing of the experience, wisdom and voices of grassroots leadership and practitioners whose inclusion and contribution are vital and often central to any positive social change.
Monte Roulier
Monte, President + Co-Founder, Community Initiatives Network, is a strategist, coach, and facilitator, who has helped hundreds of community partnerships develop change strategies resulting in healthier people and places. Prior to CI, Monte served as the Senior Community Advisor at the National Civic League where he guided its nationally recognized Healthy Communities Program. Monte also served as President of Service Adventures, leading international teams of volunteer scientists and students who worked with local leaders to establish National Parks across Russian and Central Asia. He also joined efforts with Save The Children to initiate a micro-credit banking system that fueled a thriving business and social network of female refugee leaders throughout Tajikistan. Monte is a co-founder and board member of Institute of People Place and Possibility, serves on the National Civic League's board, and he is the board chair of The Center for Good Food Purchasing. He lives in Portland, OR and and regularly works out of the CI office located in his hometown of Fort Collins, CO.
Monte, President + Co-Founder, Community Initiatives Network, is a strategist, coach, and facilitator, who has helped hundreds of community partnerships develop change strategies resulting in healthier people and places. Prior to CI, Monte served as the Senior Community Advisor at the National Civic League where he guided its nationally recognized Healthy Communities Program. Monte also served as President of Service Adventures, leading international teams of volunteer scientists and students who worked with local leaders to establish National Parks across Russian and Central Asia. He also joined efforts with Save The Children to initiate a micro-credit banking system that fueled a thriving business and social network of female refugee leaders throughout Tajikistan. Monte is a co-founder and board member of Institute of People Place and Possibility, serves on the National Civic League's board, and he is the board chair of The Center for Good Food Purchasing. He lives in Portland, OR and and regularly works out of the CI office located in his hometown of Fort Collins, CO.
Aziz Royesh
Aziz, a leading advocate for equal access to primary and secondary education in Afghanistan, co-founded a school for Afghan refugees in Pakistan in 1994. With a focus on critical thinking and human rights, the school flourished and eventually moved to Afghanistan in 2002, where it now teaches more than 3500 Afghan students, about half of whom are girls. Aziz has written textbooks on humanism, human rights, democracy, social studies, and Quranic interpretation and is a frequent speaker on the concept of a tolerant community. Marefat High School has become a highly respected and well-known model for a new approach to community building in Afghanistan. Aziz and his colleagues established the Marefat Civil Capacity Building Organization (MCCBO) which is working to strengthen and expand democracy and civil norms of life. Marefat is accredited by the Afghanistan Ministry of Education, Ministry of Economics and Ministry of Finance as a tax-exempt non-profit NGO. It was recognized as the “Best Private School of 2014 and 2016” by the Ministry of Education. As a 2011-2012 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Aziz worked on his memoirs - featuring three decades of change and developments in Afghanistan after the Communist Coup in 1979 in a 550-page, best-selling book titled “Let Me Breathe.” In 2014, Aziz participated in the Global Teacher Prize contest through UK-based Varkey Foundation and acquired the position of Top 10. He was accredited as the "Afghanistan Hero of Education" in EU calendar of 2016 and won the membership of the International Association for College Admission Counseling in 2017. He is also a member of Empowerment Institute as an Imagine Leader.
Aziz, a leading advocate for equal access to primary and secondary education in Afghanistan, co-founded a school for Afghan refugees in Pakistan in 1994. With a focus on critical thinking and human rights, the school flourished and eventually moved to Afghanistan in 2002, where it now teaches more than 3500 Afghan students, about half of whom are girls. Aziz has written textbooks on humanism, human rights, democracy, social studies, and Quranic interpretation and is a frequent speaker on the concept of a tolerant community. Marefat High School has become a highly respected and well-known model for a new approach to community building in Afghanistan. Aziz and his colleagues established the Marefat Civil Capacity Building Organization (MCCBO) which is working to strengthen and expand democracy and civil norms of life. Marefat is accredited by the Afghanistan Ministry of Education, Ministry of Economics and Ministry of Finance as a tax-exempt non-profit NGO. It was recognized as the “Best Private School of 2014 and 2016” by the Ministry of Education. As a 2011-2012 Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Aziz worked on his memoirs - featuring three decades of change and developments in Afghanistan after the Communist Coup in 1979 in a 550-page, best-selling book titled “Let Me Breathe.” In 2014, Aziz participated in the Global Teacher Prize contest through UK-based Varkey Foundation and acquired the position of Top 10. He was accredited as the "Afghanistan Hero of Education" in EU calendar of 2016 and won the membership of the International Association for College Admission Counseling in 2017. He is also a member of Empowerment Institute as an Imagine Leader.
Somava Saha
A safety net primary care clinician and public health professional, Soma believes that the leading causes of life can be found and learned about most deeply in communities that experience inequities, where people use these to not only survive and endure but to thrive despite systemic inequities. Growing up in Kolkata, she has worked for over 30 years to remove systemic shackles that prevent these communities from contributing their solutions to healing the world. President and CEO of Well-being and Equity(WE) in the World, Soma’s vision has been to bring together grassroots-to-grasstops networks capable of changing the outcomes of the system, such as the Well Being In the Nation(WIN) Network, Communities RISE Together. This work has led to the creation of over 5,000 jobs in communities experiencing inequities, entrusted these communities to lead change, and resulted in 60,000 birthdays celebrated and hundreds of thousands of bedtime stories told which might have been lost. Believing anyone can create good change—and have developed frameworks for health, well-being and equity for communities, public health, health care, businesses that are being used in over a thousand communities around the world, have been adopted by dozens of national agencies, and is taught in 80+ universities. Dr. Saha and her team at WE in the World aim to grow and be connected with a global movement of better ancestors that can advance intergenerational well-being and justice together. Previously, Soma was vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, led 100 Million Healthier Lives (with 1850+ partners in 30+ countries reaching >500 million people), and served as vice president at Cambridge Health Alliance, where she led a system transformation that won national awards for improved health, experience and cost for safety net communities. In 2012, she was one of ten Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Young Leaders for contributions to improving the health of the nation, has appeared on panels with the Dalai Lama, Angela Davis, and as a featured speaker at a White House Summit on the economy hosted by Kamala Harris. She is faculty at Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Governance Institute.
A safety net primary care clinician and public health professional, Soma believes that the leading causes of life can be found and learned about most deeply in communities that experience inequities, where people use these to not only survive and endure but to thrive despite systemic inequities. Growing up in Kolkata, she has worked for over 30 years to remove systemic shackles that prevent these communities from contributing their solutions to healing the world. President and CEO of Well-being and Equity(WE) in the World, Soma’s vision has been to bring together grassroots-to-grasstops networks capable of changing the outcomes of the system, such as the Well Being In the Nation(WIN) Network, Communities RISE Together. This work has led to the creation of over 5,000 jobs in communities experiencing inequities, entrusted these communities to lead change, and resulted in 60,000 birthdays celebrated and hundreds of thousands of bedtime stories told which might have been lost. Believing anyone can create good change—and have developed frameworks for health, well-being and equity for communities, public health, health care, businesses that are being used in over a thousand communities around the world, have been adopted by dozens of national agencies, and is taught in 80+ universities. Dr. Saha and her team at WE in the World aim to grow and be connected with a global movement of better ancestors that can advance intergenerational well-being and justice together. Previously, Soma was vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, led 100 Million Healthier Lives (with 1850+ partners in 30+ countries reaching >500 million people), and served as vice president at Cambridge Health Alliance, where she led a system transformation that won national awards for improved health, experience and cost for safety net communities. In 2012, she was one of ten Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Young Leaders for contributions to improving the health of the nation, has appeared on panels with the Dalai Lama, Angela Davis, and as a featured speaker at a White House Summit on the economy hosted by Kamala Harris. She is faculty at Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, Institute for Healthcare Improvement and Governance Institute.
Steve Scoggin
Steve is Executive Vice-Chair & Assistant Professor, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical Center, Associate Vice-President of Behavioral Health, Wake Forest Baptist Healthcare & Associate Dean of Faculty Leadership Coaching and Care, Wake Forest School of Medicine. He is an ordained minister. As past President of CareNet, a state-wide network of 35 plus outpatient behavioral health clinics—as leaders in spiritually integrated psychotherapy, counseling, education and research, the largest network of its kind in the world—Steve was deeply involved at the national, state, local and non-profit levels in advocacy, education, and service provision for children, adults and families who live with physical, emotional, social and spiritual challenges. Living at the intersection of mind, body, spirit and community, he seeks to root new models of spiritually integrated behavioral health into medical and non-profit contexts, for the sake of all.
Steve is Executive Vice-Chair & Assistant Professor, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical Center, Associate Vice-President of Behavioral Health, Wake Forest Baptist Healthcare & Associate Dean of Faculty Leadership Coaching and Care, Wake Forest School of Medicine. He is an ordained minister. As past President of CareNet, a state-wide network of 35 plus outpatient behavioral health clinics—as leaders in spiritually integrated psychotherapy, counseling, education and research, the largest network of its kind in the world—Steve was deeply involved at the national, state, local and non-profit levels in advocacy, education, and service provision for children, adults and families who live with physical, emotional, social and spiritual challenges. Living at the intersection of mind, body, spirit and community, he seeks to root new models of spiritually integrated behavioral health into medical and non-profit contexts, for the sake of all.
Mohamed Seedat
Former director of the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa, and the SA Medical Research Council-UNISA Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, Mohamed has served on several editorial boards, international conference organising committees, acted as an external examiner/reviewer on masters and doctoral level research reports/thesis, books, funding proposals and journal manuscripts and provided advisory services to agencies in the injury prevention, community psychology and development fields. He has published in the areas of radical community psychology, racism, violence, and community development. He thinks with sites of struggle across the globe about liberation and against cruelty
Former director of the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa, and the SA Medical Research Council-UNISA Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, Mohamed has served on several editorial boards, international conference organising committees, acted as an external examiner/reviewer on masters and doctoral level research reports/thesis, books, funding proposals and journal manuscripts and provided advisory services to agencies in the injury prevention, community psychology and development fields. He has published in the areas of radical community psychology, racism, violence, and community development. He thinks with sites of struggle across the globe about liberation and against cruelty
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Geordan Shannon
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Arvind Singhal
Arvind (PhD) is Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston Endowed Professor of Communication and Director of the Social Justice Initiative at The University of Texas at El Paso, the William J. Clinton Distinguished Fellow at the Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock, Arkansas, Distinguished Professor 2 in the Faculty of Business Administration, Inland University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and Chancellor’s Honorary Professor at Amity University, India. He teaches and conducts research on the diffusion of innovations, the positive deviance approach, organizing for social change, the entertainment-education strategy, and liberating interactional structures, covering fields as diverse as public health, education, human rights, poverty alleviation, sustainable development, civic participation, democracy and governance, and corporate citizenship. Co-author or editor of 14 books, three of which have won awards, he has also authored some 225 peer-reviewed essays, mainly in communication, social change, and health journals, several of them also awarded. Multiply honoured in other ways too, in the USA, India, Japan, Malaysia, Slovakia, Germany, and Israel, Arvind has served as an advisor to the World Bank, UN-FAO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNAIDS, UNFPA, U.S. Department of State; U.S. A.I.D., Family Health International, PATH, Save the Children, the BBC World Service Trust, International Rice Research Institute, and several private corporations, and has visited and lectured in over 100 countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Australia, Europe, and North America.
Arvind (PhD) is Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston Endowed Professor of Communication and Director of the Social Justice Initiative at The University of Texas at El Paso, the William J. Clinton Distinguished Fellow at the Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock, Arkansas, Distinguished Professor 2 in the Faculty of Business Administration, Inland University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and Chancellor’s Honorary Professor at Amity University, India. He teaches and conducts research on the diffusion of innovations, the positive deviance approach, organizing for social change, the entertainment-education strategy, and liberating interactional structures, covering fields as diverse as public health, education, human rights, poverty alleviation, sustainable development, civic participation, democracy and governance, and corporate citizenship. Co-author or editor of 14 books, three of which have won awards, he has also authored some 225 peer-reviewed essays, mainly in communication, social change, and health journals, several of them also awarded. Multiply honoured in other ways too, in the USA, India, Japan, Malaysia, Slovakia, Germany, and Israel, Arvind has served as an advisor to the World Bank, UN-FAO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNAIDS, UNFPA, U.S. Department of State; U.S. A.I.D., Family Health International, PATH, Save the Children, the BBC World Service Trust, International Rice Research Institute, and several private corporations, and has visited and lectured in over 100 countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America, Australia, Europe, and North America.
Rachel Sinha
Rachel is a British award-winning social innovator. She is Founder of The Systems Studio designed to build a thriving field of systems change practice. Prior to that Rachel was one of four co-founders of The Finance Innovation Lab, named by the Guardian newspaper as one of 50 Radicals- ‘changing the face of the UK for the better’, she built the Lab from an idea, to an independent fully funded not-for-profit. She is an established thought leader in the field of social innovation and systems change and has co-written book on social Labs (Labcraft), written for publications including HBR and Fast Company, documented the work of systems leaders with Oxford University as well as written up her experiences of running a Lab in A Strategy for Systems Change. Her most recent publication written in partnership with Tim Draimin, Mapping Momentum, offers a snapshot of the emerging field of systems change practice.
Rachel is a British award-winning social innovator. She is Founder of The Systems Studio designed to build a thriving field of systems change practice. Prior to that Rachel was one of four co-founders of The Finance Innovation Lab, named by the Guardian newspaper as one of 50 Radicals- ‘changing the face of the UK for the better’, she built the Lab from an idea, to an independent fully funded not-for-profit. She is an established thought leader in the field of social innovation and systems change and has co-written book on social Labs (Labcraft), written for publications including HBR and Fast Company, documented the work of systems leaders with Oxford University as well as written up her experiences of running a Lab in A Strategy for Systems Change. Her most recent publication written in partnership with Tim Draimin, Mapping Momentum, offers a snapshot of the emerging field of systems change practice.
Fred Smith
Fred, Rev. Dr., is a Christian educator serving in communities dealing with long-term challenges and vulnerabilities. Educated at Harvard, SMU and Emory, he has worked at the foundation of the Interfaith Health Program at the Carter Center. He is the primary architect of 'Not Even One', a highly creative strategy to treat every handgun death as a "sentinel event" subject to broad community analysis to prevent the next one. He has adapted religious assets mapping and leading causes of life into his participatory educational designs at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC, and been a key leader in Stakeholder Health and the congregational networks in both Memphis and North Carolina. A widely sought speaker and counselor in both religious and public health circles, he recently returned to his boyhood home, Valejo California, as a United Methodist pastor and community leader.
Fred, Rev. Dr., is a Christian educator serving in communities dealing with long-term challenges and vulnerabilities. Educated at Harvard, SMU and Emory, he has worked at the foundation of the Interfaith Health Program at the Carter Center. He is the primary architect of 'Not Even One', a highly creative strategy to treat every handgun death as a "sentinel event" subject to broad community analysis to prevent the next one. He has adapted religious assets mapping and leading causes of life into his participatory educational designs at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC, and been a key leader in Stakeholder Health and the congregational networks in both Memphis and North Carolina. A widely sought speaker and counselor in both religious and public health circles, he recently returned to his boyhood home, Valejo California, as a United Methodist pastor and community leader.
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Deon Snyman holds a MA in Semitic Languages and a Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Pretoria and a MPhil in Political Studies from the University of Cape Town. He served 11 years as a minister of rural Zulu-speaking congregations of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa. He then worked for the Diakonia Council of Churches in Durban as the Manager of Priority Issues. In 2006 was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of the Restitution Foundation (www.restitution.org.za) and in 2019 he was appointed as the Managing Director of the Goedgedacht Trust (www.goedgedacht.org ).
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Craig Stewart
Craig has degrees in Zoology and International Development. At first a high school science educator, he is now the CEO of The Warehouse Trust in Cape Town, a very active and highly respected faith based community development organization engaged in community development and community-based advocacy. He is interested in the application of complexity and systems thinking to the work of community development along with a passion for leadership development. Craig most recently has developed a growing curiosity about water, sanitation and hygiene related issues which brings together his academic fields of study. Calling himself 'reasonably gregarious extrovert with a need for regular silence and times of solitude,' Craig also loves mountain biking and camping in the mountains. He is motivated by the belief that 'in wholeness of my life I can work towards the establishment of shalom [human thriving] in the world around me.'
Craig has degrees in Zoology and International Development. At first a high school science educator, he is now the CEO of The Warehouse Trust in Cape Town, a very active and highly respected faith based community development organization engaged in community development and community-based advocacy. He is interested in the application of complexity and systems thinking to the work of community development along with a passion for leadership development. Craig most recently has developed a growing curiosity about water, sanitation and hygiene related issues which brings together his academic fields of study. Calling himself 'reasonably gregarious extrovert with a need for regular silence and times of solitude,' Craig also loves mountain biking and camping in the mountains. He is motivated by the belief that 'in wholeness of my life I can work towards the establishment of shalom [human thriving] in the world around me.'
Naiema Taliep
Naiema is an associate professor and senior researcher at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA) and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) - UNISA Violence, Injuries and Social Asymmetries Research Unit. She is a registered research psychologist with expertise and extensive experience in community-based participatory action research, community engagement, violence prevention and programme development and evaluation. She has conducted research in the development and psychometric testing of questionnaires in the field of violence, family functioning, safety and peace and health-related quality of life. She has produced several peer-reviewed publications and training manuals in collaboration with community members. She loves gardening and cooking, if she is not busy in the community.
Naiema is an associate professor and senior researcher at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA) and the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) - UNISA Violence, Injuries and Social Asymmetries Research Unit. She is a registered research psychologist with expertise and extensive experience in community-based participatory action research, community engagement, violence prevention and programme development and evaluation. She has conducted research in the development and psychometric testing of questionnaires in the field of violence, family functioning, safety and peace and health-related quality of life. She has produced several peer-reviewed publications and training manuals in collaboration with community members. She loves gardening and cooking, if she is not busy in the community.
Beulah Tertiens-Reeler
Beulah is a teacher at heart. She completed her various teaching degrees and a Master’s Degree in Higher Education as well as a Waldorf Teacher Diploma. She was a high school teacher, Waldorf class teacher, Whole School Development practitioner, lecturer in the B.Ed. programme at the Centre for Creative Education in Cape Town. During Covid-19, she started a little Waldorf-inspired Cottage School in a small rural village called Greyton. Now that she has moved back to Cape Town, she continues to support the school by developing and writing curriculum guidelines and lesson plans and ongoing online teacher and classroom mentoring. Beulah continues to work with the Barefoot Guide Connection as facilitator, writer and editor (https://www.barefootguide.org/) and is dreaming about initiating a Barefoot Guide on Education. At the moment she is semi-retired, and looking towards the next chapter in her life. She is participating in the Hero Book Facilitator’s course with the aim of working with children and adults using art and a narrative process to allow them to explore the strengths and challenges in their lives and find the Hero within. Contact [email protected]
Beulah is a teacher at heart. She completed her various teaching degrees and a Master’s Degree in Higher Education as well as a Waldorf Teacher Diploma. She was a high school teacher, Waldorf class teacher, Whole School Development practitioner, lecturer in the B.Ed. programme at the Centre for Creative Education in Cape Town. During Covid-19, she started a little Waldorf-inspired Cottage School in a small rural village called Greyton. Now that she has moved back to Cape Town, she continues to support the school by developing and writing curriculum guidelines and lesson plans and ongoing online teacher and classroom mentoring. Beulah continues to work with the Barefoot Guide Connection as facilitator, writer and editor (https://www.barefootguide.org/) and is dreaming about initiating a Barefoot Guide on Education. At the moment she is semi-retired, and looking towards the next chapter in her life. She is participating in the Hero Book Facilitator’s course with the aim of working with children and adults using art and a narrative process to allow them to explore the strengths and challenges in their lives and find the Hero within. Contact [email protected]
Anna Tharyan [withdrawn but still supports LCLI, so we keep her in mind and on site]
Professor and consultant in general adult Psychiatry, with an interest in psychosocial rehabilitation, Anna works on ways of extending the reach of the clinical services of the tertiary care referral center in which she has worked all her life. How to make mental health care affordable and accessible to those who are economically deprived is her vital concern. Anna has taught Psychiatry to postgraduate students of Psychiatry, medical undergraduates, nursing and occupational therapy students, but of greater interest to her is the opportunity to teach basic Psychiatry to community volunteers and other non-professional workers, as well as to initiate innovation in service delivery amongst economically challenged communities & carry over lessons learnt to redefine what, in the context of health, is assumed to be standard wisdom and science.
Professor and consultant in general adult Psychiatry, with an interest in psychosocial rehabilitation, Anna works on ways of extending the reach of the clinical services of the tertiary care referral center in which she has worked all her life. How to make mental health care affordable and accessible to those who are economically deprived is her vital concern. Anna has taught Psychiatry to postgraduate students of Psychiatry, medical undergraduates, nursing and occupational therapy students, but of greater interest to her is the opportunity to teach basic Psychiatry to community volunteers and other non-professional workers, as well as to initiate innovation in service delivery amongst economically challenged communities & carry over lessons learnt to redefine what, in the context of health, is assumed to be standard wisdom and science.
Herman Tolentino
Herman works in global public health, empowering people and organizations to use health information effectively for transforming health systems. Trained in anesthesiology, and medical and public health informatics, he administered the CDC Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program from 2007-2015, as program director where he developed innovative approaches to train ‘interprofessional boundary spanners’ who can collaboratively solve problems through systems thinking. After moving to the CDC Center for Global Health in 2016 he embarked on creative approaches to develop the informatics workforce and informatics-savvy health systems in low to middle income countries in Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, enabling them to harness the benefits of collaborative sense-making and problem solving; develop and strengthen innovative partnerships across diverse groups, organizations, countries and continents; and, advance health equity through just digital health ecosystems. He continues to passionately mentor, train and develop the next generation of compassionate, ethical systems leaders, boundary spanners and change agents.
Herman works in global public health, empowering people and organizations to use health information effectively for transforming health systems. Trained in anesthesiology, and medical and public health informatics, he administered the CDC Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program from 2007-2015, as program director where he developed innovative approaches to train ‘interprofessional boundary spanners’ who can collaboratively solve problems through systems thinking. After moving to the CDC Center for Global Health in 2016 he embarked on creative approaches to develop the informatics workforce and informatics-savvy health systems in low to middle income countries in Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, enabling them to harness the benefits of collaborative sense-making and problem solving; develop and strengthen innovative partnerships across diverse groups, organizations, countries and continents; and, advance health equity through just digital health ecosystems. He continues to passionately mentor, train and develop the next generation of compassionate, ethical systems leaders, boundary spanners and change agents.
Emily Viverette
DMin is the Director of FaithHealth Chaplaincy and Education, where she provides leadership for chaplaincy services across the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist region. She works closely with staff and leaders across the Division of FaithHealth Ministries to develop educational programming that advances the mission of FaithHealth. In her work, she is passionate about the ways in which faith communities, faith-based agencies, chaplains and clergy can collaborate to improve health in their communities, particularly in rural settings. As a Certified Educator credentialed through ACPE, Inc., she also provides direct supervision of chaplain interns and residents. Emily is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). She holds a B.S. from Elon University, MDiv from Vanderbilt University, and DMin from Hood Theological Seminary. She is married and has two teens who keep her busy. She is an avid podcast listener, reader, traveler and seeker of awe.
DMin is the Director of FaithHealth Chaplaincy and Education, where she provides leadership for chaplaincy services across the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist region. She works closely with staff and leaders across the Division of FaithHealth Ministries to develop educational programming that advances the mission of FaithHealth. In her work, she is passionate about the ways in which faith communities, faith-based agencies, chaplains and clergy can collaborate to improve health in their communities, particularly in rural settings. As a Certified Educator credentialed through ACPE, Inc., she also provides direct supervision of chaplain interns and residents. Emily is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). She holds a B.S. from Elon University, MDiv from Vanderbilt University, and DMin from Hood Theological Seminary. She is married and has two teens who keep her busy. She is an avid podcast listener, reader, traveler and seeker of awe.
Marlese von Broembsen
Marlese is an Associate Professor in Labour Law and Development at the Centre for the Transformative Regulation of Work (CENTROW), University of the Western Cape and a Senior Researcher in Labour Rights at the global research-advocacy network, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). She was the founding Director of WIEGO's Law Programme, where she lead a team of lawyers to contribute research and influence scholars in the disciplines of labour law, urban law, and human rights law to include informal employment in their research and curricula; and to support organizations of informal workers (street vendors, homeworkers, domestic workers and waste pickers) to know, use and shape the law and to participate in international law-making processes (including ILO Conventions and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence of the European Union) and in fora such as the Inter-American Commission of Human RIghts. Prior to joining WIEGO, Marlese convened an inter-disciplinary Masters Programme in Social Justice for six years at the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town. She was awarded a Harvard South Africa Fellowship (2014); a David and Elaine Potter Research Fellowship for contribution to civil society (2014; 2015); and a National Research Foundation Innovation Scholarship (2014). From 2015-2017 she was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School and taught a course in Law and Development at North-Eastern Law School. Marlese has an MA- in Development Studies from the University of the Western Cape and law degrees from the Universities of Stellenbosch, Cape Town and Harvard. Her PhD title, New Frontiers for Labour Law: Collective Bargaining for Workers in Global Supply Chains and Informal Self-Employed Workers reflects her commitment to seeing the working poor participate in decision-making about their workplaces and livelihoods.
Marlese is an Associate Professor in Labour Law and Development at the Centre for the Transformative Regulation of Work (CENTROW), University of the Western Cape and a Senior Researcher in Labour Rights at the global research-advocacy network, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). She was the founding Director of WIEGO's Law Programme, where she lead a team of lawyers to contribute research and influence scholars in the disciplines of labour law, urban law, and human rights law to include informal employment in their research and curricula; and to support organizations of informal workers (street vendors, homeworkers, domestic workers and waste pickers) to know, use and shape the law and to participate in international law-making processes (including ILO Conventions and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence of the European Union) and in fora such as the Inter-American Commission of Human RIghts. Prior to joining WIEGO, Marlese convened an inter-disciplinary Masters Programme in Social Justice for six years at the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town. She was awarded a Harvard South Africa Fellowship (2014); a David and Elaine Potter Research Fellowship for contribution to civil society (2014; 2015); and a National Research Foundation Innovation Scholarship (2014). From 2015-2017 she was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP), Harvard Law School and taught a course in Law and Development at North-Eastern Law School. Marlese has an MA- in Development Studies from the University of the Western Cape and law degrees from the Universities of Stellenbosch, Cape Town and Harvard. Her PhD title, New Frontiers for Labour Law: Collective Bargaining for Workers in Global Supply Chains and Informal Self-Employed Workers reflects her commitment to seeing the working poor participate in decision-making about their workplaces and livelihoods.
Francis Wilson † (17 May 1939 – 24 April 2022)
An economist, and consummate inspirer of others, Francis is part of the team that leads a national initiative on stra-tegies for dealing with poverty and inequality in South Africa. Education is another passion, with a particular concern about how one creates an environment that builds moral, visionary and deeply human persons. Founder of the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), first Director of the Data First Resource Unit at the Univer-sity of Cape Town, a former UCT orator, Chairperson of Council at the University of Fort Hare from 1990-1999, and first Chairperson, 1996- 1999, of the National Water Advisory Council; from 2001 Chairperson of the International Social Science Council’s Scientific Committee of the International Comparative Research Program on Poverty. The 3rd. edition of his Dinosaurs, Diamonds & Democracy: A Short Short History of South Africa, is out in Afrikaans, English and Xhosa.
An economist, and consummate inspirer of others, Francis is part of the team that leads a national initiative on stra-tegies for dealing with poverty and inequality in South Africa. Education is another passion, with a particular concern about how one creates an environment that builds moral, visionary and deeply human persons. Founder of the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), first Director of the Data First Resource Unit at the Univer-sity of Cape Town, a former UCT orator, Chairperson of Council at the University of Fort Hare from 1990-1999, and first Chairperson, 1996- 1999, of the National Water Advisory Council; from 2001 Chairperson of the International Social Science Council’s Scientific Committee of the International Comparative Research Program on Poverty. The 3rd. edition of his Dinosaurs, Diamonds & Democracy: A Short Short History of South Africa, is out in Afrikaans, English and Xhosa.
Gerald (Jerry) Winslow
Retired Director, Loma Linda University Institute for Health Policy and Leadership, Jerry received his undergraduate education at Walla Walla University, Master’ s degree at Andrews University, and doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, University of Virginia, and the University of Tübingen in Germany, and presented lectures and seminars at universities and throughout North America and in Australia, Europe, Russia, Africa, and Asia. For over fifty years, he has specialized in teaching and writing about ethics, especially biomedical ethics. His work focuses on the intersection of social ethics and public policy. His books include Triage and Justice (University of California Press) and Facing Limits (edited with James Walters, Westview Press). His articles have appeared inter alia in Western Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Pediatrics, the Hastings Center Report, the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and General Dentistry. A member of Stakeholder Health’s Advisory Council, he was also a member of the California Technology Assessment Forum, a public forum for the evaluation of new health care technologies, and served as a consultant in biomedical ethics for major health care systems in the United States and internationally. His current personal and professional passion is for connecting healthcare systems to community organizations to form creative partnerships for more effective community health development. He is especially interested in new forms of collaboration between health systems and communities of faith. When he is not engaged in this work, he may be found in his woodshop or garden, or playing with his two grandsons. Jerry is married to Dr. Betty Wehtje Winslow, who is retired from teaching community health nursing at Loma Linda University, with two daughters, Lisa, a computer software engineer, and Angela, an occupational therapist.
Retired Director, Loma Linda University Institute for Health Policy and Leadership, Jerry received his undergraduate education at Walla Walla University, Master’ s degree at Andrews University, and doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, University of Virginia, and the University of Tübingen in Germany, and presented lectures and seminars at universities and throughout North America and in Australia, Europe, Russia, Africa, and Asia. For over fifty years, he has specialized in teaching and writing about ethics, especially biomedical ethics. His work focuses on the intersection of social ethics and public policy. His books include Triage and Justice (University of California Press) and Facing Limits (edited with James Walters, Westview Press). His articles have appeared inter alia in Western Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Pediatrics, the Hastings Center Report, the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, and General Dentistry. A member of Stakeholder Health’s Advisory Council, he was also a member of the California Technology Assessment Forum, a public forum for the evaluation of new health care technologies, and served as a consultant in biomedical ethics for major health care systems in the United States and internationally. His current personal and professional passion is for connecting healthcare systems to community organizations to form creative partnerships for more effective community health development. He is especially interested in new forms of collaboration between health systems and communities of faith. When he is not engaged in this work, he may be found in his woodshop or garden, or playing with his two grandsons. Jerry is married to Dr. Betty Wehtje Winslow, who is retired from teaching community health nursing at Loma Linda University, with two daughters, Lisa, a computer software engineer, and Angela, an occupational therapist.
Heather Wood Ion
Heather has degrees from McGill University, Claremont Graduate School and Oxford University in history, comparative religion, cultural anthropology, and Indology, doing teaching, fieldwork and various jobs in UC San Diego, Calcutta, Kyoto and Heidelberg. This, as she puts it, has ‘kept me in the glorious mess of everyday challenges to poor people and people on the margins.’ Widely published, her writing having been translated into numerous languages, Heather worked with Jonas Salk for eight years on how to create an epidemic of health. She has been working for 25+ years on turnarounds in healthcare—taking troubled practices, or large systems, discovering their challenges and their assets, and then building a turnaround on the basis of inherent talents and strength.
Heather has degrees from McGill University, Claremont Graduate School and Oxford University in history, comparative religion, cultural anthropology, and Indology, doing teaching, fieldwork and various jobs in UC San Diego, Calcutta, Kyoto and Heidelberg. This, as she puts it, has ‘kept me in the glorious mess of everyday challenges to poor people and people on the margins.’ Widely published, her writing having been translated into numerous languages, Heather worked with Jonas Salk for eight years on how to create an epidemic of health. She has been working for 25+ years on turnarounds in healthcare—taking troubled practices, or large systems, discovering their challenges and their assets, and then building a turnaround on the basis of inherent talents and strength.
