Luke Powery
Luke A. Powery is the Perry and Georgia Engle Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Princeton Theological Seminary. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Music with a concentration in vocal performance from Stanford University. He earned a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Theology from Emmanuel College, University of Toronto. Nurtured in the Holiness-Pentecostal tradition, he is an ordained Baptist minister who has served in an ecumenical capacity in churches throughout Switzerland, Canada, and the United States. He is author of Spirit Speech, a book about the Holy Spirit and preaching, and serves on the lectionary team for The African American Lectionary, a project funded by Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Juana Bordas
Juana Bordas is President of Mestiza Leadership International. She is a former faculty member of the Center for Creative Leadership was founding President/ CEO of the National Hispana Leadership Institute, the only program in America that prepares Latinas for national leadership.
Juana has twenty two years’ experience managing nonprofit corporations and building partnerships with the private sector to support innovative programs. She has published a number of articles on leadership and diversity. Her book, Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age won the International Latino Award for best leadership book.
Juana recently served as advisor to Harvard’s Hispanic Journal on Public Policy and the Kellogg National Fellows Program. She was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame and currently serves as vice-president of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership’s board.
A former Peace Corps volunteer, she received the Franklin Award from the US Peace Corps for her life long commitment to advance communities of color.
David Shenk
David W. Shenk was born to pioneer Mennonite missionaries in Tanzania, and
has invested a life-time in missions. For sixteen years he served within
Muslim communities in Somalia and Kenya. At present he is Global Consultant with
Eastern Mennonite Missions. His interest in Christian peacemaking and
witness, especially among Muslims as well as secularist socities, has taken him
into some 100 countries. He has authored or co-authored sixteen books on the
mission of the church in our pluralist world. He holds a doctorate in religious
studies education with course work in anthropology from New York University.