Dr. Tyson-Lord Gray
Tyson-Lord Gray holds a BA from Trinity International University, a MDiv from Morehouse School of Religion, a STM from Boston University, a JD from Elisabeth Haub School of Law, and a PhD from Vanderbilt University.
Mr. Thomas B. Donaldson
THOMAS B. DONALDSON is Of Counsel to Donaldson & Chilliest, LLP. He specializes in litigation, and provides counsel and guidance in business development, not-for-profit governance, government affairs, business development and regulatory and compliance matters. Mr. Donaldson’s litigation practice includes providing clients defense of major crimes, the enforcement and defense of real property leases and small business litigation. legal advice and representation. Mr. Donaldson has served on the board of several not-for-profit organizations and public bodies and continually devotes substantial time to community service. Prior to re-joining the law firm of Donaldson & Chilliest, LLP as Of Counsel, Mr. Donaldson served as principal legislative counsel to New York City Council’s Committees on Economic Development and Community Development.
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Rev. Dr. Mark E. Whitlock, Jr.
Dr. Mark E. Whitlock, Jr. is the Senior Pastor of Reid Temple A. M. E Church in Glen Dale. Maryland. Pastor Whitlock is only the ninth Pastor to serve at this phenomenal A. M. E Church, he has been serving the Reid Temple A. M. E. community and the great Washington, DC, Maryland & Northern Virginia (DMV) Community since he was appointed as Senior Pastor of Reid Temple A. M. E. Church in July 2019. Prior to this appointment at Reid Temple A. M. E. Church, Pastor Whitlock served as Senior Pastor of Christ Our Redeemer A.M.E. Church in Irvine, CA since August 1998. Over the course of is ministerial and nonprofit career, Pastor Whitlock has raised more than $1.2 billion for the kingdom of God through individual donors, corporations, federal and institutional grants.
Mr. Robert Glenn III
Currently serving as the President of the East Alabama Black Belt Farmers' Cooperative in Bullock and Barbour County. Retired from the U.S. Active Army after serving 28 years as a Logistics Officer. Volunteer community service through several affiliated organizations to allow me to give back to my community. I attend the Tabernacle Baptist church in Burlington, New Jersey.
Dekila Chungyalpa, Director
Dekila Chungyalpa is the founding director of the Loka Initiative, an award-winning capacity building and outreach platform at the University of Wisconsin – Madison for faith leaders and culture keepers of Indigenous traditions working on environmental and climate issues. She is an experienced environmental program director, with over two decades of experience in designing and implementing global conservation and climate strategies and projects. Known as an innovator in the environmental field, Dekila has expertise in faith-led environmental and climate partnerships, biodiversity landscape and river basin strategy design, and community-based conservation. In 2008, she helped establish Khoryug, an association of over 50 Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and nunneries implementing environmental projects across the Himalayas under the auspices of His Holiness the 17th Karmapa. In 2009, Dekila founded and led WWF Sacred Earth, a 5-year pilot program at the World Wildlife Fund that built partnerships with faith leaders and religious institutions towards conservation and climate results in the Amazon, East Africa, Himalayas, Mekong, and the United States, for which she received the prestigious Yale McCluskey Award. Dekila moved to Yale School of Environment in 2014 and spent the next three years designing and testing the prototype of Loka in collaboration with over 15 faith and Indigenous leaders.
Mr. Rodney Marsh
Over 25 years of experience in Accounting, worked in the capacity CFO for national and intra-national corporations, primarily in the pharmaceuticals industry.
Gary Hodge
G. L. Hodge worked in management for Kmart for/13 years, Office Depot for 11 and Providence Baptist Church for 10 years. While working for Kmart he was assigned to manage stores serving identified at risk communities of East Palo Alto, Richmond and Compton California. Mr. Hodge; Compton experience began with interviewing over 700 employees and hiring 70. After its grand opening, the Rodney King uprising was rendered and produced severe civil unrest. Through Hodge; guidance, the store remained open and became the National Guard Command Head Quarters. G. L. took his retail experience to the nonprofit field and became the Administrator of Providence Baptist Church. A 24-hour Church where he helped administer the facility for the Church Providence Foundation’s homeless shelter with case management, after school programs, Food Bank, Algebra Program
Rev. Michelle Higgins
Rev. Michelle Higgins is Senior Pastor of St. John's United Church of Christ - the Beloved Community, a congregation dedicated to the future of north city St. Louis, a neighborhood which is over 90% Black and working class. She is Board Chair and co-founder of Action St. Louis which is the largest Black political home in the state of Missouri. Rev. Higgins is also a lead volunteer for the Fatal State Violence Response Team - organized under the leadership of families who lost loved ones to police terror and deaths in custody.
Bishop Jerry W. Macklin
Bishop Jerry W. Macklin, a native of San Mateo, California, is a longtime leader in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). In 1978, he and his wife, Lady Vanessa Macklin, founded Glad Tidings Church in Hayward, California, now known as Glad Tidings International Church of God in Christ. The church operates over 40 ministries and has had a major role in revitalizing South Hayward through the Northern California Community Development Corporation (NCCD), which has built over 120 residential units.
Bishop Macklin has served on numerous civic and educational boards and has been a significant figure in COGIC leadership for more than four decades. His roles have included founding the NorCal Metropolitan Jurisdiction, serving on the COGIC General Board, and currently holding the position of First Assistant Presiding Bishop under Presiding Bishop J. Drew Sheard.
Internationally, he has led humanitarian missions, including disaster response efforts in Haiti and the United States following major crises like Hurricane Katrina. His work has earned him many awards, including Hayward’s Humanitarian and Lifetime Achievement Award.
He and Lady Vanessa have been married for 48 years and are proud parents of five children and grandparents to twelve grandchildren.
Rev. Dr. Dwight Webster, Ph. D.
Currently, Senior Pastor of the 133 year-old Beth Eden Baptist Church of Oakland, CA
-Berkeley School of Theology, Berkeley, CA, Board of Trustees, present.
-Leadership Institute at Allen Temple (independent 501(c)3), Oakland. Board of Directors,
present.
-Seafarers Ministry of the Golden Gate at the International Maritime Center, Oakland, Board of
Directors, present.
-Sankofa Institute, Oblate School of Theology, Council of Elders, San Antonio, TX, present.
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