The Summit 2016

From Ferguson to New York to Germany, Lisa has been leading trainings and helping mobilize clergy and community leaders around shared values for the common good, with a focus on racial justice. Prior to joining Sojourners, Lisa was the founding executive director of New York Faith & Justice — an organization at the hub of a new ecumenical movement to end poverty in New York City. In that capacity, she helped establish Faith Leaders... Read More →

Jim Wallis is president and founder of Sojourners in Washington, DC. a nonprofit faith-based organization, network, and movement whose mission statement calls for “putting faith into action for social justice.” | | He is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine and website which has a combined print and electronic media readership of more than a quarter million people with several million unique visitors to the website, sojo.net, each... Read More →

A veteran of the anti-apartheid movement and an Anglican priest, René August is a reconciliation trainer with The Warehouse, a worshipping community organization in Cape Town, South Africa that walks alongside churches as they seek to respond to the issues of poverty, injustice, and division in a city that struggles with some of the worst inequality in the world. 

Msizi Cele is an entrepreneur working to create profitable businesses that uplift the poor and empower the youth of Africa. He is the co-founder of Public Square Foundation and serves on the board of the Restitution Foundation and the Justice Alliance of South Africa. 

Llewellyn MacMaster is the manager of civil society relations in the division for social impact at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He has been an ordained minister in the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) for 29 years.

Bonolo Makgale is an associate pastor and works for WHEAT Trust (Women’s Hope Education and Training), which gives funds to women-led organizations across South Africa. 

Sello Mmane is a 27-year-old associate pastor at Ebenezer Bible Church, an evangelical church in the western Johannesburg, where he was born. He is co- founder of Lead4Christ, an organization that exists to equip the local church through youth leadership training and support. 

Caroline Powell is the supervisor of Urban Gleaning, a stewardship program of The Warehouse in Cape Town. She is currently studying theology at the University of Pretoria, with a focus on leadership in urban transformation.