Dr. Kara Powell is the Executive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) and a faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary. Named by Christianity Today as one of “50 Women You Should Know,” Kara serves as a Youth and Family Strategist for Orange, and also speaks regularly at parenting and leadership conferences. Kara is the author or coauthor of a number of books, including Growing Young, Growing With, The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family, Sticky Faith Curriculum, Can I Ask That?, Deep Justice Journeys, Deep Justice in a Broken World, Deep Ministry in a Shallow World, and the Good Sex Youth Ministry Curriculum.

Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah is Associate Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Theological Seminary and the author of Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church. He is formerly the founding Senior Pastor of the Cambridge Community Fellowship Church, a multi-ethnic, urban ministry-focused church committed to living out the values of racial reconciliation and social justice in the urban context. He has extensive experience in cross-cultural preaching as well as on numerous college campuses. Soong-Chan, lives in Chicago with his wife, Sue, and their two children.

Brad M. Griffin is the Senior Director of Content for the Fuller Youth Institute, where he develops research-based training for youth workers and parents. A speaker, blogger, and volunteer youth pastor, Brad is the coauthor of Growing Young, several Sticky Faith ​books, Right Click: Parenting Your Teenager in a Digital Media World, and the series Can I Ask That?: 8 Hard Questions about God and Faith. Brad and his family live in Southern California.

Jennifer A. Guerra Aldana, originally from Guatemala, grew up in Southern California as the daughter of church planters. Jennifer received her B.A in Social Work from Point Loma Nazarene University and served as a youth pastor and social worker in San Diego county. She serves as a pastor of La Fuente Ministries- a bilingual, intercultural ministry of Pasadena First Church of the Nazarene and graduated with her MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary. Her passions include leadership training, intercultural youth spiritual formation and bilingual ministries.

Teesha Hadra earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida. She practiced law for nearly seven years before leaving to begin full time ministry in 2013 at Buckhead Church, an urban campus of North Point Community Church in Atlanta. Teesha received an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary and is ordained in the Anglican Church in North America. She previously served as the Executive Pastor at Church of the Resurrection, an Anglican parish in Los Angeles. Teesha and her husband live in New Orleans where she serves as a Chaplain at University Medical Center. She recently co-authored Black & White: Disrupting Racism One Friendship at a Time with her friend, John Hambrick.

Jake Mulder is the Senior Director of Strategy at the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI), where he oversees business administration, coordinates new research, develops resources, and helps the team think strategically. He is a graduate of Fuller Theological Seminary (MDiv) and Western Michigan University (BA Business Admin and Finance) and is pursuing a PhD at Fuller. Passionate about helping individuals and organizations achieve their full potential, he is the coauthor of Growing Young. Jake has worked in a variety of ministry and professional roles, including as a Financial Analyst, Youth Pastor in the Reformed Church of America, Ministry Director with Youth for Christ, and missionary with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) in Europe and Asia.

Rev. Dr. Dwight Radcliff is the Assistant Provost for the William E. Pannell Center for African American Church Studies and Assistant Professor of Mission, Theology, and Culture at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has over twenty years of pastoral experience and is a leading voice in topics ranging from urban church planting, culture, theology, preaching, social justice, millennials, and evangelism. Dwight continues to pastor alongside his wife at The Message Center Church in Gardena, CA, a church he founded in 2006.

Aaron Rosales is a co-founder of Brio, a non-profit that designs and launches mental health solutions in vulnerable communities through local partnerships. He also is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University Counseling and Psychological Services. Aaron has a wealth of expertise in clinical and research psychology honed through working with universities, churches, community organizations, humanitarian aid workers, clergy, police departments, and victims of violent crimes. He is passionate about promoting mental health in populations with a wide gap between need and resources.

Tommy Nixon is the Chief Executive Officer at the Urban Youth Workers Institute. Before coming to UYWI, he founded Solidarity, a community development organization that serves Latinx and immigrant families in Fullerton, CA. Tommy has a passion for helping urban leaders lead from a place of depth with God while having a dynamic impact in the Kingdom. Currently, Tommy is the lead pastor at One Life City Church in Fullerton, CA where he lives with his wife and five children.

Jane Hong-Guzman de Leon is the Project Coordinator for the Living a Better Story research project and a Content Advisor for the Ministry Innovations with Young Adults at Fuller Youth Institute. She holds her MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary and a BA in English Literature from the University of California, San Diego. Jane has pastored for over a decade, from youth to adults, in two church plants that have large thriving ministries. Prior to becoming a pastor, she worked as a deputy probation counselor, junior high English teacher, and a professor at the International University in Mexico. In her free time she guest preaches, officiates weddings, serves at ISAAC (Innovative Space for Asian American Christianity) a non profit organization, cares for her family, and gathers with people around food and deep conversations. Jane is passionate about seeing diversity, justice, healing, and transformation in and out of the church.