Pauline was raised in Altadena. She has a 30+ year career in healthcare and philanthropy. After receiving her MPH, Pauline worked as a health educator and administrator for public health departments, health maintenance systems and nonprofit healthcare organizationsacross Los Angeles and San Bernardino County. Her government experience includes managing operations, marketing and fiscal departments for the US Postal Service. 

Pauline’s philanthropy work focused on developing initiatives and making grants for The California Wellness Foundation and Kaiser Permanente Southern California Region. While retired, Pauline takes on interesting consulting work when inspired.

Pauline attended Lutheran High School in Los Angeles. She received her BA from UCLA andMPH from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

A graduate of George Washington University and Pepperdine University Law School, Susan Christopher led a private law practice for 12 years focused primarily on estate planning before joining Pepperdine as a Vice Chancellor of Planned Giving.

Susan is passionate about helping people understand how to leverage their legacies and make sure that their voices are heard, their impact is maximized, and their families are well cared for. Susan also started a nonprofit that helps churches and community resources plug into the needs in the community and has helped local nonprofits create and improve planned giving strategies to maximize their impact and sustainability. 

Susan has been married to her husband for 27 years and has two sons: 23 and in e-sportsmarketing, and 26 in ministry, along with a 9-month-old golden retriever puppy that is equalparts fun and cuteness and frustrations and work. Susan’s free time is spent learning and leading in racial justice, hiking or wandering through nature, reading, and spending time with her family and friends.

Miyoung Yoon Hammer is a first generation Korean American living in Pasadena with her husband and children. She is a native Southern Californian and has lived here except for the 12 years she spent on the East and 3rd coasts during her graduate school and early careers years.

Miyoung is a Marriage and Family Therapist by vocation and is an Associate Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy in the School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy at Fuller Seminary. Her focus in the classroom and the clinic is to train Christian MFTs to be peacemakers and healers who are as much invested in the restoration of themselves as they are in the lives of their clients. Her clinical specialization is in medical family therapy (MedFT), helping patients and their loved ones address the psychosocial impact of illness and disability, and she is a Restoration Therapy (RT) therapist.

Bobby Harrison is a pastor and preacher, writer, and reconciler. He holds an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary and a Journalism degree from Northwestern University.

He’s been married to his high school sweetheart, Amy, for 17 years and the two have three kind and courageous kids. Bobby previously served as a Lead Pastor in North Little Rock, Arkansas, a LifeGroups Pastor and Facilitator for the Center for Racial Reconciliation at Fellowship Monrovia in California, and a core leadership role with a church plant in Pasadena called The Bridge.

Bobby’s committed to the Kingdom work of multiethnic ministry and strives to see sisters andbrothers equitably leading and serving together side by side across all lines that divide.

Tina Williams, a lover of people and lifelong learner, whose story is one of her faith in Christ and her passion and dedication to serve others. Tina completed her undergraduate degree from UCSanta Barbara, and graduate degrees from SDSU and SFSU. 

Upon completing her formal education, her father told her “your degree doesn’t mean anything unless you try and help someone.” Tina took her father’s words to heart. Her career choice has the common thread of helping others, demonstrated by her work as a college counselor for the University of La Verne, the first director of Multi-Ethnic Programs at Azusa Pacific University, field representative to former Council member Jacque Robinson, and most recently as the director of community engagement for Harambee Ministries.

Harambee Ministries holds a special place in Tina’s heart. It is the place where she met herhusband John and her best friend Debra Ward. It is also the place where she had the privilege of raising her children Elyse and Jonathan, and her spiritual daughter Marlene.

Outside of her professional life, Tina's love for the great outdoors defines her spirit. During heryoung adult years she spent time with Outward Bound Adventures hiking through the John Muir trail in the High Sierra Mountains. If you hike local trails you might see her along the way. When she is not serving others you can find her in her garden.

Upon retiring, Tina joined a small community organization called the 710 Restorative Justice(710 RJP) Pasadena. 710 RJP’s mission is to advocate for families displaced by the proposed building of the 710 freeway. She currently serves on the City of Pasadena ReconnectingCommunities 710 Advisory Body.

The Center has been a focal point in my life these past 4 years: Workshop 1.0 and 2.0, facilitator training in Grand Rapids (March, 2020), two Civil Rights Tours of the South and facilitator for five Table Talks.

I’m a husband (married to Carolyn in 1969), a dad (three grown, married children), and aGrandpa (fourteen grandchildren: ages 8-21). Brandy, our Golden Retriever (10 months), joined our family last month.

My education includes Moody Bible Institute (B.A. 1971), UCLA (1969-1970), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.Div., 1974), College for Financial Planning (CFP, 1987) Retired 2018.

I’ve been a pastor, financial advisor, author, speaker, fundraiser, blogger, amateur philosopher, armchair (unlicensed) counselor, junior varsity theologian, novice techie, photography enthusiast, quasi-political-junkie and reader of books. In my retirement, I am a podcast host and consultant.

Sandy Lee Schaupp is a Korean American woman on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for 30 years, currently providing spiritual direction for staff.

A major part of her ministry with InterVarsity has been in teaching & mentoring students & staff in racial healing and justice. She is also a mom to 3 adult children and married to Doug Schaupp.

A graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary with an MA in Theology and PhD in Intercultural Studies and Leadership. Served with two NGO’s—Wycliffe Bible Translators and Youth With A Mission (YWAM). Worked for Life Pacific University as a professor and was the founder and director of Global Life which provided experiential learning around the globe in short-term trips, study abroad, and international internships.

Currently working as Project Faculty for Portland Seminary in the Doctor of Leadership in Global Perspectives (Dld). A Qualified Administrator for Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).

I am married to Mark and the mom of four grown sons. I have six grandchildren. I am passionate about people and helping them become culturally competent so they can be a bridge towards inclusion and belonging in our very diverse world.

A fun fact about me is my BA is in Home Economics. It is not uncommon to find me knitting on a project for one of my grandkids or baking for my neighbors.

Inés Velásquez-McBryde is a pastor, preacher, reconciler and speaker. She is Co-Lead Pastor of The Church We Hope for, a multiethnic church planted during the 2020 pandemic in southern California.

She is originally from Nicaragua. Inés earned her MDiv at Fuller Seminary and was a Chaplain at Fuller for 2 years. She has 22 years of combined ministry experience in church-planting and pastoral staff leadership in multi-ethnic churches. She has spoken in local church pulpits across the nation, as well as at national and regional conferences sharing her passion for multiethnic church planting, racial reconciliation, justice, and the full inclusion of women in pastoral leadership. She was the recipient of the Ian-Pitts Watson Preaching Award at Fuller Seminary.

Inés has been married to Rob for 19 years and loves being a soccer mom to their son, Nash. She loves salsa dancing and café con leche.

Dr. Gilbert Walton, born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, retired after 36 years of practice and internal medicine and southern California and December 2019.

His chief interest in the practice of medicine was to provide excellent quality care to all of his patients given the history of inadequate healthcare, especially to African-Americans and the poor.

His educational experiences include: 1966 Valedictorian Morristown College, 1968 Fisk University, 1981 Upjohn, 1991 Chief of Medicine, Quality Improvement Healthcare Partners, New Hope Missionary Baptist Church.

Post retirement activities include board member of North Fair Oaks Empowerment Initiative; advisor to win, Black and Brown go Green; church, Officer, new, Hope, missionary BaptistChurch; bicyclist and fly fisherman.

John has diligently and faithfully worked toward racial reconciliation for almost 30 years. He is passionate about training groups who seek to increase their awareness around biblical multicultural and racial reconciliation, and brings years of experience and expertise in facilitating and training to this work.

John uses facilitating dialogue and interactive exercises as a core element in all of his workshops. These workshops are designed to introduce participants to the deceptive and destructive effects of racism in our lives and the body of Christ, and present opportunities to learn and experience the work of racial reconciliation within a biblical framework. John is a graduate of UC Berkeley and USC Law School. John has been practicing law for over 20 years, has mediated and facilitated sessions for individual and small groups in the area of alternative dispute and conflict resolution, and is an adjunct professor at Azusa Pacific University and Life Pacific College teaching on Race, Reconciliation and Ministry.