The Center for Public Justice is supported by a team of faithful and dedicated individuals who work diligently to pursue public justice.
Our Team
Our Team
CPJ Team
Debora Haede is a multilingual communications professional who enjoys implementing communications strategies for faith-based organizations. She is a graduate of Calvin University.
Debora Haede
Emily Crouch is the Program Director for Shared Justice, CPJ’s program for Christian college students and young adults.
Emily Crouch
Mario Alfaro directs EMF, which equips grassroots Hispanic-led faith-based organizations to align their faith with their organizational practices, their relationship with the public, and their public policy engagement. He has 20 years of experience working with leaders of faith-based organizations to help them impact their communities.
Mario Alfaro
Oliver Mead is the Operations Manager for the Center for Public Justice. He graduated with a degree in Statistics from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Oliver Mead
Stanley Carlson-Thies is the Founder and Senior Director of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance, a division of the Center for Public Justice. He is an expert on the federal Faith-Based Initiative and served in the inaugural White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Stanley Carlson-Thies
Stephanie Summers is the CEO of the Center for Public Justice. She received her M.S. in Nonprofit Management from Eastern University, and is a recipient of the inaugural Duke Divinity Reflective Leadership Award.
Stephanie Summers
Fellows
Chelsea Langston Bombino, J.D., is a program officer with the Fetzer Institute. Her work as a Fellow with CPJ focuses on increasing public understanding of the importance of religious freedom for faith-based organizations of diverse faiths and mission areas.
Chelsea Langston Bombino
Charles Glenn, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Education Leadership and Policy Studies at Boston University and co-chair of the International Conference on School Choice and Education Reform. His extensive publications detail pluralist education systems worldwide.
Charles Glenn, Jr.
Clarke Cochran, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Texas Tech University, and the author of numerous books and articles in health care policy, religion and politics, and Catholic social teaching.
Clarke Cochran
Gideon Strauss, Ph.D., is the Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Worldview Studies at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Ontario.
Gideon Strauss
Rev. Dr. Harold Dean Trulear is Associate Professor Emeritus of Applied Theology at Howard University School of Divinity and the National Director of Healing Communities.
Harold Dean Trulear
Rev. Dr. Matthew Kaemingk is the Richard John Mouw Assistant Professor of Faith and Public Life and Director of the Richard John Mouw Institute of Faith and Public Life at Fuller Seminary. Matthew’s research and teaching in ethics explores questions facing Christians serving in politics, culture, and the marketplace.
Matthew Kaemingk
Dr. Michelle Kirtley is a Senior Research Analyst in the Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Duke University. Prior to joining Duke, Michelle was a consultant on Bioethics and Public Policy at the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity and a science and health policy advisor for two members of Congress.
Michelle Crowell Kirtley
Rachel Anderson is a coalition-builder, facilitator, and policy advisor with a background in law, community organizing, and religious studies. Rachel is the founder and senior advisor to CPJ’s Families Valued program which advances family-supportive policies such as paid family leave, protections for pregnant women, and a child care ecosystem that meets families needs. She is also the Principal of Hope& Consulting which helps faith, civic and philanthropic organizations build common ground. Previously, she held leadership roles at the Center for Responsible Lending, the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, and the Boston Faith & Justice Network.
Rachel Anderson
Robert Joustra, Ph.D., is associate professor of politics & international studies at Redeemer University. He is an editorial fellow with The Review of Faith & International Affairs, and author, co-author, and co-editor of several books.
Robert Joustra
Steven E. Meyer, Ph.D., is the Dean of Graduate Studies and Chairman, National Security Program and Professor of National Security Studies, Daniel Morgan Graduate School, and the Former Deputy Chief of the CIA’s Balkan Task Force. He served 25 years as a U.S. intelligence professional.
Steven E. Meyer
Timothy Sherratt, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Gordon College and author of Power Made Perfect? Is there a Christian Politics for the Twenty-First Century? ( 2016)
Timothy Sherratt
Vincent Bacote, Ph.D., is Professor of Theology and Director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL.
His recent titles include Reckoning with Race and Performing the Good News: In Search of a Better Evangelical Theology (2021), and The Political Disciple: A Theology of Public Life (2015), and stand alongside nearly two decades of publications on race, culture and faith.
Vincent Bacote
Yasmine Arrington, M.Div., supports CPJ’s Juvenile Justice policy and educational portfolio. Yasmine is the Founder and Executive Director of ScholarCHIPS and an alumna of CPJ’s Sacred Sector Fellows program.
Yasmine Arrington
Board Of Trustees
Claire McWilliams-Doty is Lead Auditor at the Environmental Protection Agency and lives in Maryland.
Claire McWilliams-Doty
Denise Strothers, Ph.D., is the National Director of Operations for Healing Communities and lives in Maryland.
Denise Strothers
Ivy Ka-Lee Lau is the Global Public Policy and Research Lead at PayPal and lives in California.
Ivy Lau-Schindewolf
Terry Woodnorth is a retired software engineer and lives in Pennsylvania.
Terry Woodnorth
Jesse Covington, Ph.D., is a Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Augustinian Scholars Program at Westmont College and lives in California.
Jesse Covington
Justin Bailey, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of theology at Dordt University, the host of the In All Things podcast and lives in Iowa.
Justin Bailey
Pastor Kathy Pointer is co-pastor of Greater Fellowship Full Gospel Baptist Church and the Executive Director of Kingdom Care Elder Village.
Kathy Pointer
Kelly Tien is a retired finance and accounting executive and lives in Colorado.
Kelly Tien
Matt Reiffer is the Vice President of Infrastructure Programs at ACEC and lives in Maryland.
Matt Reiffer
Strategic Advisors
Amy L. Sherman, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at the Sagamore Institute where she directs the Center on Faith in Communities (CFIC), a capacity building initiative for congregations and faith-based and community-based organizations. She is a frequent speaker/trainer at gatherings for congregational and nonprofit ministry leaders.
Amy Sherman
Rev. Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner is CEO and co-founder of Skinner Leadership Institute. Dr. Williams-Skinner is a trusted advisor, public policy strategist, faith and community leader, author, lecturer, educator, executive coach, and mentor. She and her late husband, Tom Skinner, founded the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Prayer Breakfast that annually attracts over 3000 leaders across the nation.
Barbara Williams Skinner
Bruce MacLaury is President Emeritus of The Brookings Institution. He is a former vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and also served in the U.S. Treasury Department and at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.
Bruce MacLaury
Ambassador Clyde D. Taylor is a former U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay. He is the former executive director of the Una Chapman Cox Foundation, which supports the Foreign Service Foundation, and a board member for several non-profit organizations.
Clyde Taylor
Corwin D. Smidt is the former Director and a current Research Fellow of the Paul B. Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics at Calvin University. Dr. Smidt specializes in American electoral politics, presidential primaries, the political news media, campaign politics, and dynamics in American political behavior.
Corwin Smidt
John J. Dilulio, Jr. is the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania.
John Dilulio
Judy Dean is Professor of International Economics in the Brandeis University International Business School. Judy’s research focuses on international trade and economic development. She serves as a Senior Fellow at the Rimini Centre of Economic Analysis.