Our Leadership Team
Executive Team
Jack Sullivan, Jr. (Co-President), Executive Director of the Ohio Council of Churches.
Tanya Tyler (Vice-President), Senior Pastor, First Christian Church, Ruidoso, NM.
Vaughn Ouellette (Treasurer), Former Moderator of the Christian Church Capital Area.
Claudella Koen (Secretary), Senior Pastor at Northside Christian Church in Cincinnati, OH.
Jesse Jackson, (Incorporation Representative to the State of Oklahoma), Senior Pastor of East Sixth Street Christian Church in Spencer, OK.
Eric Brown (At-Large), Senior Pastor of Woodlawn Christian Church in Columbus, OH.
Chrissy Stonebraker-Martinez (At-Large), Co-Coordinator of the InterReligious Task Force on Latin America, Cleveland, OH.
Jay Wilcoxen (Treasurer Emeritus), Retired Professor of Old Testament Studies, The Divinity School, The University of Chicago.
Other Members of the Decisions Team
Luis Alfredo-Cartegena Zayas, Pastoral Associate, Park Avenue Church, New York, NY
Sophia Barnett, Minister, Full Gospel Christian Church, Detroit, MI
E. Regis Bunch, Pastor, Fifth Christian Church, Cleveland, OH
R. Wayne Calhoun, Director of Evangelism, Disciples Home Missions, Indianapolis, IN
Brenda Cardwell, Senior Pastor, Pilgrimage Christian Church, Suitland, MD.
Julian DeShazier, Senior Pastor, University Church of Hyde Park, Chicago, IL (a founding congregation).
Kelli Driscoll Crews, Former Senior Pastor, Bethany Christian Church, Tulsa, OK (a founding congregation).
Kris Culp, Dean, Disciples Divinity House, The Divinity School, The University of Chicago.
Edward Cushingberry, Jr., Senior Pastor, New Hope Christian Church, Burton, SC.
Peter Heltzel, recent Associate Professor of Theology at New York Theological Seminary; recent Assistant Minister of Evangelism at Park Avenue Christian Church, New York, NY.
Michael Kinnamon, Former General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA; speaker, author.
William BLUE EAGLE McCutchen, Representative to DJAN from Disciples Indigenous Justice Ministries.
Rosetta Robinson, Interfaith Works, Rockville, MD.
DEPARTED SAINTS
James L. Demus, III, Founding President; Leader, Organizer, and Advisor of DJAN
Charles Harvey and May Sweet Lord, Founding Coordinators; DJAN Leaders, Organizers, and Advisors
Brian Adams, DJAN Minister of Justice Education
David Nichol, Member of the DJAN Decisions Team; Representative to DJAN from GLAD Alliance (now AllianceQ).
Garnett Day, Founding Member; Leader, Organizer, and Advisor of DJAN
Gerald Cunningham, Founding Member of the DJAN Decisions Team
Charles Bayer, Activist and Theologian, Founding Member and Informal DJAN Leader, Organizer, and Advisor
William Nottingham, President of Disciples Overseas Ministries; DJAN Supporter and Informal Advisor
Nancy Hunt Wirth, DJAN President and Secretary Emeritus; Representative from Disciples for Choice