Delah became a Campus Crusade for Christ staff member in 1980 as a trainer of new staff members in Jos, Nigeria. Since then Dela has served in many capacities, including national director of his home country of Ghana, director of affairs for Southern and Eastern Africa, international director for leadership development and vice president for Africa, the Middle East and Central Asian Republics. Dela currently serves as Campus Crusade’s Vice President for Area Team Leaders. In this capacity, Dela works with the leaders of the organization’s 12 global leadership teams to accomplish our mutual calling to help fulfill the Great Commission. Dela has authored several books, including Leading Transformation in Africa, Revival and Spiritual Awakening, Approaches to Christianization in Africa and Religion and Government in Africa.

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Steve Douglass is president of both Campus Crusade for Christ International and Cru, as the ministry is known in the United States. Steve came to the ministry after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Business School. Through more than 45 years of service, he has held a variety of positions, including vice president and for administration director of U.S. ministries. In July 2001, Steve took over as the president of Campus Crusade for Christ International from founder Bill Bright. Steve is the author or co-author of several books, including Managing Yourself, How to Achieve Your Potential and Enjoy Life, How to Get Better Grades and Have More Fun and Enjoying Your Walk with God. His radio program, Making Your Life Count, airs daily on 900 stations.

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Guy Gerrard is an award-winning photographer with Cru, with 27 years doing photography for Worldwide Challenge. He has traveled on assignment to more than 35 countries. As photography manager, Guy also does portrait and studio work for Cru.

With nearly five million copies of her books sold worldwide, Christy Award winner Angela Hunt, Th.D., is the best-selling author of more than 140 works and an acclaimed writing teacher. She began with nonfiction magazine writing, then branched into juvenile nonfiction and fiction. In 2007, her novel The Note was featured as a Christian movie on the Hallmark Channel. Romantic Times Book Club presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.

Diane J. McDougall has lived and breathed magazines since 1985 — from Cru’s Worldwide Challenge and the organizational pub World Relief to the Evangelical Free Church’s EFCA Today and Ethiopian Airline’s inflight magazine, Selamta. (Yes, travel editing.) As editorial director at the creative agency Journey Group, she’s been mixing it up with both print and digital over the past few years. She firmly believes that the best articles are the result of a trusting partnership between the creator and the editor.

Mark Pinsky is an accomplished author, journalist, speaker and social critic. A former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and Orlando Sentinel (covering the Evangelical beat for both), he holds degrees from Duke University and Columbia University. As an investigative journalist specializing in capital murder cases around the Southeast, he has written for the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. His books include Met Her On The Mountain, The Gospel According to The Simpsons, The Gospel According to Disney and A Jew Among the Evangelicals.

Kevin Shanley is the principal of Shanley and Associates, the leading marketing agency exclusively serving faith based publishers. Kevin has had engagements with over 40 members of the Associated Church Press, Evangelical Press Association, and Catholic Press Association. Shanley and Associates also has a strategic partnership with Cambey and West, one of today’s leading fulfillment agencies also serving faith based publishers.

Shanley and Associates brings 39 years of marketing experience to the table. Their services include: fundraising, periodical audience development, fulfillment, and advertising sales. Kevin started his career as the marketing director for Claretian Publications in 1979.

Al Tompkins is The Poynter Institute’s senior faculty for broadcasting and online. He has taught thousands of journalists, journalism students and educators in newsrooms around the world. His teaching focuses on writing, reporting, storytelling, ethics, critical thinking, photojournalism, social media and online journalism. He has taught and coached print newsrooms in the U.S. and abroad how to build interactive news websites, how to use video more effectively online and how to manage ethical issues that arise online.

Tompkins is the author of the book Aim For The Heart: Write, Shoot, Report, Produce for TV and Online, which is being used by more than 125 universities as their main broadcast writing, reporting and ethics textbook.

During his two and a half decades as a journalist, and nearly two decades as a teacher at Poynter, Tompkins has been awarded many of journalism’s highest honors. Tompkins won the National Emmy, the Peabody Award (group award), the Japan Prize, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel for Court Reporting, seven National Headliner Awards, two Iris Awards and the Robert F. Kennedy Award. Tompkins was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame and in 2008 was awarded The Governor’s Award, the highest honor given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He has also been honored by the National Press Photographers Association and the Radio and Television News Foundation for contributions to journalism and journalism education.

Al is a juror for the Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards and served as a final juror on the duPont-Columbia Awards, and the Investigative Reporter and Editor awards. Al earned a Master’s Degree in Digital Journalism and Design from the University of South Florida and a B.A. degree in journalism from Western Kentucky University.

Kent Annan is author of Slow Kingdom Coming, After Shock, Following Jesus through the Eye of the Needle and the forthcoming You Welcomed Me (Fall 2018). He is a senior fellow at Wheaton College’s Humanitarian Disaster Institute. He is cofounder of the nonprofit Haiti Partners. He’s on the board of directors of Equitas Group, a philanthropic foundation focused on ending child exploitation in Haiti and Southeast Asia. He’s a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.) and Palm Beach Atlantic University (B.A.).

Award-winning designer Anne Elhajoui is art director of Venice magazine, a lifestyle magazine of Venice, Florida, and creative director of Knight Marketing. She is art director and designer of Disciple!, and she has her own design business, Aeiou Design, producing ads, menus, brochures and posters. She served as art director of Discipleship Journal for 12 years before moving to Florida to start her own business. Anne earned an M.S. in design from Pratt Institute in New York City and has taught design courses with MTI in Bulgaria, Croatia and India.

Sandra Glahn teaches journalists in the Media Arts and Worship department at Dallas Theological Seminary. She is a multi-published author of both fiction and non-fiction, a journalist, and a speaker who advocates for thinking that transforms, especially on topics relating to art, gender, sexual intimacy in marriage, and first-century backgrounds as they relate to gender. Dr. Glahn’s more than twenty books relate to bioethics, sexuality, and reproductive technologies as well as ten Bible studies in the Coffee Cup Bible Study series. She is a regular blogger at Engage, bible.org’s site for women in Christian leadership, the owner of Aspire Productions, and served as editor-in-chief for Kindred Spirit from 2008 to 2016.

Dr. Joel Hunter served as senior pastor of Northland Church in Longwood, Florida for 32 years. In 2017 he transitioned from that role on a mission to “go from my best interpretation of what the Bible says, to my best imitation of how Jesus lived.”

Now as a full-time volunteer, he serves as the Chairman of the Community Resource Network, a non-profit organization that focuses on helping the marginalized — specifically homeless families. Dr. Hunter also serves as the Chairman of the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness, a Florida-based nonprofit organization comprised of government officials, corporations, faith communities, and other non-profit organizations working together to end homelessness. He also leads a “Bible Study and Conversation” to teach people how to live like Jesus.

Nicola A. Menzie is a media professional living in New York City who writes about the intersection of race, culture and Christianity. Nicola is also the founder of Faithfully Magazine, a website (faithfullymagazine.com) and quarterly print/digital publication centering on Christian communities of color.

In addition to her work appearing on the Religion News Service wire, CBSNews.com and on other news sites, Nicola reported on faith and culture issues for a leading online Christian newspaper for four years and hosted its weekly web show for more than two years. She has broken major stories, produced exclusives, and interviewed some of Evangelicalism’s most influential figures. In addition to being a Tow-Knight alum, Nicola has pursued graduate studies in Theology at Alliance Theological Seminary.

José has been the creative director at Metaleap Creative since he founded the firm in 2002. After earning his BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design, he worked as a designer at several major advertising and design firms in the South.

Over the years he has received a variety of accolades, the most memorable being the “My Hero” trophy crafted and given to him by his daughter when she was eight years old. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Turkey, Utah, New Mexico and Florida, his love and curiosity of all things keeps him traveling and searching for inspiration in the world around him.

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Kate Shellnutt is associate online editor for Christianity Today. As the magazine’s social media producer, she quadrupled the following for @CTmagazine and reached record levels of engagement as the most popular Christian publication on Twitter. She also reports for the site’s news and women’s sections. Kate is vice president of the Religion News Association. Prior to CT, she served as the web editor and reporter for the Houston Chronicle’s religion site, Houston Belief. Kate is an Army wife who works remotely from Augusta, Georgia.

Jeremy Weber is senior news editor at Christianity Today, where he manages a team of journalists producing international religion news focused on evangelical/Protestant Christianity for a monthly magazine (CT) and daily blog (Gleanings) serving Christian thought leaders. An award-winning journalist based in Chicago, Jeremy has recently reported from India, Lebanon, Iraq, Cuba, and South Sudan, among other countries. He graduated from Wheaton College (IL), and has worked at CT for eight years. He and his wife Carolin were avid Argentine tango dancers until their first son Mateo arrived last August.

For Greg Breeding, strong communication—visual or spoken—is always about clarity. A graphic designer at heart and by trade, Greg’s decidedly Swiss perspective is shaped by years designing magazines, art-directing postage stamps for the United States Postal Service and taking an annual pilgrimage to (where else?) Switzerland to study the craft. Since co-founding Journey Group in 1992, he’s brought strong design thinking to our many client relationships, building rapport through genuine interest, well-told stories and a subtle Southern drawl.

Mark Galli has been part of the editorial staff at Christianity Today since 1989 serving as an editor for both Christian History and Leadership and as Senior Managing editor for Christianity Today. In 2012 he was named editor of Christianity Today. Early in his career, Mark was a pastor for ten years in Sacramento and Mexico City.

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Dr. Mimi Haddad is president of CBE International. She is a graduate of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and holds a PhD in historical theology from the University of Durham, England. Haddad is part of the leadership of Evangelicals for Justice. She is a founding member and leader of the Evangelicals and Gender Study Group at the Evangelical Theological Society

An award-winning author, she has written more than one hundred academic and popular articles and blogs. She is author of Is Gender Equality a Biblical Ideal? with Sean Callaghan. She has contributed to twelve books, most recently: Examples of Women’s Leadership in the Old Testament and Church History and The Invisible Power of Culture to Oppress: What Every Christian Needs to Know about Gender and Justice. She is an editor and a contributing author of Global Voices on Biblical Equality: Women and Men Serving Together in the Church.

Mimi has published with the Ashland Theological Journal; Christian Ethics Today; CBE’s journals, Mutuality and Priscilla Papers; the Evangelical Fellowship of India and the Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief; Her.menuetics; Sojourners; and the William Carey Development Journal.

Haddad is an adjunct assistant professor of historical theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and Olivet University Zinzendorf School of Doctoral Studies. She currently serves as a gender consultant for World Vision International and Beyond Borders.

Now the senior pastor of Bethel AME Church in St. Petersburg, FL, Kenny Irby served Poynter Institute’s faculty of visual journalism and diversity from 2005-2015. During his two-decade tenure at Poynter, Irby traveled to Nigeria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Canada, Jamaica, Singapore, South Africa and Russia, preaching excellence in photojournalism and truth-telling.

He chaired the 2007 Pulitzer Prize photography categories, lectured at the World Press Photos buddy training program and the International Center of Photography, is a member of the Eddie Adams Workshop board, and is a founding member of National Press Photographers Association and The Best of Photojournalism (BOP) Committee.

He is the recipient of numerous awards: 2007 Sprague Award (the NPPA’s highest honor), 2006 Society for News Design President’s 2002 NPPA President’s Award, 1999 Joseph Costa Award and others. Irby is a frequent lecturer, teacher and author on photographic reporting issues, most recently with NPR. While at Newsday, he contributed as a picture editor to two Pulitzer prize winning projects.

Roger C. Palms, former editor of Decision Magazine, is the author of 16 books and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles. He teaches writers at conferences, colleges, theological seminaries and online in the U.S. and other countries. He serves as an EPA judge as well as a judge for the Christian Book Awards. He also works with people who have a story to tell but who need help with developing their books. Roger is a former president of the Evangelical Press Association and a recipient of EPA’s Joseph Bayly Award for Outstanding Service.

Lou Ann Sabatier has spent thirty-seven years working in media and communications. For 10 years she held senior publishing management positions in organizations focused on politics and international economics. For the next 22 years she managed her own media and communications consulting practice and they worked with hundreds of organizations, companies and non-profits in the U.S. and worldwide. Former clients include a list as diverse as World Vision/Save the Children, the International Monetary Fund, the OECD, the Federal Reserve Bank, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Since it’s launch three years ago, Sabatier has served as the Director of Communications at the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative, working alongside Distinguished Senior Fellow Frank Wolf, founder Randel Everett and staff.

Previously she served on the board of Magazine Training International where she also trained faith-based organizations around the globe in media.

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An EPA Board Member and writer for numerous member publications in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, Anita Moreland Smith has sought for the last 30 years to limit suffering of HIV-impacted children who are vulnerable daily to multiple health and psychosocial crises. Working primarily in the U.S and sub-Saharan Africa she supervised 13 clinic and hospital programs providing treatment and care to more than 65,000 HIV patients; an HIV prevention education program reaching more than 350,000 Ugandan youth ages 10-24; sponsored nutrition and income generating projects for families at risk; managed education scholarships for orphans and other vulnerable youth; piloted start-up and innovative projects with country partners to build local health care delivery and care capacity; and worked with African government ministries on internal HIV/AIDS and health policies. She helped implement one of the US government’s first 12 HIV/AIDS grants in the late ‘90s to educate, equip and engage the conservative Christian community in HIV/AIDS. She served on the President’s Advisory Council for HIV/AIDS from 2002-2006, two years as co-chair; has managed both multi-million US government cooperative agreements and private foundation grants; and serves as a consultant to the US government’s PEPFAR program.

Anne Marie Winz coaches people of all ages to become better writers. Everyone writes best when starting with confidence in the abilities they already have. Anne Marie helps writers discover what they do well when they write. Then, after they see their own success, she shows them how to improve their skills. Because she is passionate about training others to clearly and thoughtfully communicate their faith in writing, she developed Writing for Life to train writers of all ages to tell their stories and write about their beliefs. Writing for Life is a ministry of Cru.

Judy Douglass is a graduate of the University of Texas with a degree in journalism. She has served as editor of Collegiate Challenge and Worldwide Challenge, magazines formerly published by Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ). She has authored four books and edited several others. Judy’s passion is to encourage God’s children to become all they were created to be and to accomplish all they were created to do. In more than 50 years on staff with Cru, she has done that through writing, speaking and opening doors for Cru women globally. As she partners with her husband Steve to lead Campus Crusade for Christ International/Cru, she focuses on the Women’s Resources of the organization. Judy travels the world to speak and is known for her realness.

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Manny Garcia, a Cuban-American, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who spent 23 years with the Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald (Spanish-language publication of the Herald). He has guided staffs from print-emphasis approaches to multi-platform coverage of stories for multicultural audiences. In 2013 he took on news leadership at the Naples Daily News, part of the USA TODAY network. In 2016 he was named the east region executive editor for the USA TODAY Network.

A former pastor with more than 12 years of full-time experience leading evangelical churches, Eugene Hung is the Interim Violence Prevention Coordinator at the University of California, Irvine. He blogs about gender, race, faith and parenting his two daughters at FeministAsianDad.com and serves as a contributor to HuffPost. He possesses a Master of Theology (Th.M.) degree from Dallas Seminary and several t-shirts that proclaim the Houston Astros as World Series champions.

Mike Longinow coordinates the writing sequence in the department of Media, Journalism & Public Relations at Biola University. Reared by Mexican and Ukrainian parents, he makes multicultural understanding a major thrust of his approach to teaching. Mike has taught journalism and advised campus media for 28 years and is an active member of the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC), College Media Advisers (CMA) and the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP).

He is national executive director of the Association of Christian Collegiate Media (ACCM), a partner group with EPA. Mike earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Wheaton College and a Master of Science in News-Editorial Journalism from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. His Ph.D from the University of Kentucky blended study of the rise of evangelical Christian higher education and the rise of Christian publishing and radio between 1888 and 1942. Prior to teaching, Mike was a general assignment reporter for daily newspapers near Chicago and Atlanta covering city, state and national news.

Randy first joined EPA as a newsletter editor for Eternity Magazine. He spent nearly three decades as a freelance writer, authoring or co-authoring more than 60 books, including The Printer and the Preacher, and some magazine and online articles. He also specialized in Bible study curriculum for teens and adults. Now Director of Scripture Engagement Content for American Bible Society, Randy is a co-creator of the lookinside.bible website. A playwright and theater director, he also helped to launch Hope United Methodist Church of Voorhees, NJ.

Rev. Gabriel Salguero is the senior associate pastor of Calvario City Church in Orlando. For several years he served as pastor of the multicultural Lamb’s Church of the Nazarene in New York City. He is also the founder of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NaLEC), representing 8 million Latino evangelicals in the United States.

Rev. Salguero and his wife Jeanette have ministered extensively in Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Their life’s work is to bring an ethical framework to public policy and empowering mature leadership. Rev. Salguero has worked on issues of leadership development, evangelicals and public policy, as well as racial reconciliation. In addition, he has written extensively on ethics and race, multicultural ministry, immigration, and spirituality and public work.

Rev. Salguero has been named as one of the most influential Latino evangelical leaders by the Huffington Post and CNN Español. He is a featured writer for “On Faith,” and the Huffington Post’s religion page. Moreover, he previously served on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in NJ. He has also served as an adviser to the White House on issues of immigration and health-care and the faith community.

Rev. Salguero is a board member of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). For his ministry and outreach, he has been featured on CNN, CNN-Español, Telemundo, and the Associated Press. He previously served as the Director of the Institute of Faith and Public Life and Hispanic Leadership Programs at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Heidi Thompson is an organizer, marketer and publishing executive with more than 25 years of experience working with faith, community and social justice groups to leverage the science of marketing for the liberation of all God’s creation. She was the publisher and CEO of Religion News Service and served as the vice president for marketing and publisher of Sojourners magazine. She is currently providing marketing consulting services to more than a dozen Christian publications in coordination with Shanley + Associates, a Chicago-based marketing agency serving religious publishers.

Heidi has a B.S. in Journalism from the E.W. Scripps School at Ohio University and an M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communication from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Rusty Wright is an award-winning author, journalist, syndicated columnist and lecturer who has spoken on six continents. His columns have appeared in mainstream newspapers across the US and internationally. Over 1,700 websites – Christian and secular – have used his articles in any of 14 languages. His writing credits include many EPA magazines such as Christianity Today, Decision, Worldwide Challenge, Plain Truth, Physician and Pentecostal Evangel. He trains organizational leaders, broadcasters, print-media specialists, and Internet professionals in effective communication, and holds Bachelor of Science (psychology) and Master of Theology degrees from Duke and Oxford universities, respectively.