Tim was raised in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Bucknell University (B.A., 1972), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (M.Div., 1975), and Westminster Theological Seminary, where he received his D.Min in 1981. He became a Christian while at Bucknell University, due in large part to the ministry of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, with which he later served as a staff member. He was ordained by the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and served as a pastor in Virginia for nine years, while also serving Mid-Atlantic Presbytery's director of church planting for the PCA. He was an associate professor of preaching on the faculty of Westminster Theological Seminary, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1984-1989 while also serving as the Director of the Doctor of Ministry program.
Tim is the founder and senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City. Tim and his wife Kathy, along with their three sons, moved to New York City to plant Redeemer in 1989. Since then the church has grown to a weekly worshipping community of over 5,000 people, meeting at five services in three different rented locations in Manhattan. The average age of the church community is 33 years, and over 60% are single. Known for sermons that illuminate the truths of scripture and engage the contemporary mind, Christian and skeptic alike, Dr. Keller’s ministry extends beyond NYC. He is the New York Times best-selling author of The Reason for God; as well as The Prodigal God; Counterfeit Gods; Generous Justice; and his latest book, King's Cross.
Martin Bashir is an awarding-winning journalist who hosts his own show on msnbc weekdays at 3pm ET. Bashir joined NBC News as an msnbc anchor and a correspondent on NBC’s Dateline program in December 2010. He is best known for conducting a series of exclusive interviews and making ground-breaking, landmark documentaries.
He has lived and worked in New York since 2004, when he joined ABC News as co-anchor of Nightline. He has made a number of critically acclaimed documentaries. His first, which featured evidence of steroid abuse by Olympic athletes and included an exclusive interview with BALCO President Victor Conte, provoked the Senate to investigate the use of performance enhancing substances by baseball players and other American sportsmen and women. The BALCO film won an award at this year’s Chicago TV and Film Festival.
In August 2006, in a two hour primetime special, he told the story of The American Imposter, a bail jumper from Florida who lived for more than 16 years as a fake Lord in the United Kingdom. The film contained the only interview with Buckingham who confessed to being Charles Stopford and explained how he managed to create a web of lives that deceived a wife, two children and the British authorities.
His contributions to Nightline include: the confessions of a soldier in Iraq (exclusively interviewed from his prison cell in Kuwait) who has since been sentenced to life imprisonment for the pre-meditated murder of Iraqi civilians - the most authoritative account of the Queens shooting in New York (including exclusive interviews with a victim and a witness) when police fired 50 shots at three unarmed men, killing Sean Bell who was due to be married the following day – and an exclusive interview with legendary baseball player Jose Conseco, who confessed to supplying performance-enhancing drugs to a number of fellow professionals.
His documentary about ‘Glenn’ who, after suffering with terminal cancer, chose to end his life through physician-assisted suicide in the State of Oregon has been nominated for two awards. Last month (May 2008) his documentary on the Sistine Chapel, which marked 500th years since Michelangelo began painting the ceiling frescos, was the highest rated show on ABC - in the 8pm primetime hour - since December last year.
Prior to joining ABC News, and whilst working for the BBC, he conducted his now historic conversation with the late Diana, Princess of Wales, which remains the only interview television with her. He secured an exclusive interview with Louise Woodward who was found guilty of murder – later reduced to involuntary manslaughter - whilst working as an au pair in Boston.
In 1998 he joined ITV and launched a new current affairs program, ‘Tonight’, with a film made about the five youths suspected of murdering the black teenager Stephen Lawrence. The film won the Royal Television Society’s Programme of the Year Award.
In 1999 he made a series of special documentary films about the serial killer Dr Harold Shipman, a programme about the Soho bomber David Copeland, an interview with former Loyalist terrorist Johnny Adair and a major investigation into Tony Martin, the Norfolk farmer who was found guilty of murdering a teenage burglar. He secured the only broadcast interview with Tony Martin upon release from prison.
In June 2001 he presented a special three-part ITV documentary series on the subject of Xeno-Transplantation entitled ‘The Organ Farm’. The series revealed how generations of genetically modified pigs have been bred in secrecy and how experiments are ongoing to see if it might be possible to transplant animal organs into human bodies. The series won two awards at the New York Film and Television Festival.
In the wake of terrorist attacks in the US on 9/11, Martin Bashir reported and presented an ITV special entitled ‘A Day in September’ which comprised a detailed account of the 11th September. The film was given special commendation by the Independent Television Commission which regulates ITV and nominated for a Royal Television Society Award.
In 2002 he reported and produced a special documentary featuring the parents of conjoined twins Jodie and Mary Attard and a follow-up with Jodie herself as she recovered and returned to Malta. This film featured the ethical dilemma of allowing one twin to die so that one could live and included interviews with the medical team which carried out the complex surgery. This documentary was also shown around the world.
He accompanied British backpacker Joanne Lees on her return to Australia for an ITV documentary, which focussed on the abduction and disappearance of Miss Lees’ boyfriend Peter Falconio and was broadcast in March 2002. The Australian authorities charged the prime suspect with Falconio’s murder and he was found guilty in November 2006.
In 2003 his documentary Living with Michael Jackson featured exclusive and extraordinary access to one of the biggest stars of the modern musical world and was broadcast in over 60 international territories. The film was nominated for a BAFTA award (the UK equivalent of an Oscar). This programme was followed by Who Wants to be a Millionaire: A Major Fraud; a film about Major Charles Ingram and his wife Diana who were found guilty of cheating their way to the top prize on the British version of this international quiz show. It achieved the biggest audience for any factual programme in the UK since 1997 and was, again, broadcast around the world.
In addition, he has a won a number of other awards for his work including three BAFTA nominations, five Royal Television Society Awards and two Broadcasting Press Guild awards and has collected a BAFTA award for his interview with the late Princess Diana. He was the Royal Television Society’s Journalist of the Year in 1996. In 1998 he was voted Journalist of the Year by the BBC’s International Awards. In 1999 he was honoured twice at the Houston Film and Television Awards for current affairs documentaries.
In April 2000 his interviews with the five youths suspected of murdering Stephen Lawrence was given the Royal Television Society’s most prestigious accolade – it won Programme of the Year. The same programme also received a BAFTA nomination. His series on Xeno-Transplantation has won a range of awards this year including a Silver World Medal at the New York TV Programming and Promotion Festival and two of the three programmes collected awards at the 49th Columbus International Film and Video Festival in Ohio. In 2003 his work contributed to ITV’s Tonight programme winning Programme of the Year for the second time at the Royal Television Society’s Awards ceremony in London. He has now won the RTS’ Programme of the Year Award an unprecedented three times in four years. And this year, as previously mentioned, his first documentary for ABC, about the BALCO steroids scandal, was honoured at the Chicago TV and Film Festival.
His distinguished career has involved work on a wide range of television and radio programmes including Panorama, Public Eye, The Midnight Hour, the education series Just One Chance, Sunday and Pick of the Week. He has written for a variety of publications including The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Standard, The Sunday Express, The Tatler and a sports column in The Observer newspaper.
Outside of his work as a factual programmes reporter, he featured as himself in a British movie called ‘Mike Bassett – England Manager’ released in September 2001. A comedy about the trials and tribulations of a newly appointed England soccer manager, starring Ricky Tomlinson and Amanda Redman, was presented and reported as single documentary in the style of ‘Spinal Tap’.
Born in 1963, he completed a first degree in English and Post-graduate research at Kings College in London before starting work as a journalist in 1986. He is married with three children, has been a keen sportsman and plays the electric bass and released his first album, ‘Bass Lion’, in December 2010. He supports the work of Charley’s Fund, a charitable organisation which is seeking to find a cure for Muscular Dystrophy (he had a brother who died from the condition).
Richard J. Mouw has served as President of Fuller Theological Seminary since 1993, after having served the seminary for four years as Provost and Senior Vice President. A philosopher, scholar, and author, Mouw joined the faculty of Fuller Theological Seminary as professor of Christian philosophy and ethics in September 1985. Before coming to Fuller he served for 17 years as professor of philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has also served as a visiting professor at the Free University in Amsterdam. On March 29, 2007 President Richard Mouw was awarded the Kuyper Prize at Princeton Theological Seminary. This prize is awarded annually to a scholar who has made a major contribution to Reformed public theology. As the 2007 recipient Dr. Mouw delivered a lecture entitled " Culture, Church and Civil Society: Kuyper for a New Century" to scholars from the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands.
Kyoko Takahashi Lin is a partner in the Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits Group of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. She advises clients on executive compensation, equity-based incentives, deferred compensation, severance plans and other compensatory arrangements, with particular emphasis on issues arising in mergers and acquisitions transactions, initial public offerings, and new and joint ventures. Work highlights include Comcast’s NBCUniversal joint venture with General Electric, Morgan Stanley’s sale of its retail investment management business, Citigroup's participation in and exit from the Troubled Asset Relief Program and VF's acquisition of The Timberland Company.
In her pro bono practice, Kyoko has represented individuals seeking asylum in the United States, including a Chinese evangelist and women and children seeking protection from female genital mutilation. She has also advised not-for-profit organizations, including Grameen America. She is the chair of her firm's Women's Initiatives Committee.
Kyoko lives with her husband, John, and their two children in New York City. She attends Redeemer Presbyterian Church and is looking forward to becoming a part of John's upcoming Downtown congregation.
Max Anderson is the author of The MBA Oath: Setting a Higher Standard for Business Leaders (Portfolio 2010). He is also a co-founder of the MBA Oath movement, an initiative to establish a Hippocratic oath for business school graduates. Profiled by the Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, The Daily Show, and Newsweek, the MBA Oath has spread around the world, and has been signed by nearly 6,000 MBAs in two years. Max is originally from Colorado. He was a history major at Princeton, where he was a leader in the campus ministry. He received his MBA and MPA from Harvard in 2009. He lives in New York City with his wife and two daughters and works in finance.
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Organist and composer Chelsea Chen is internationally renowned for her concerts of "rare musicality" and "lovely lyrical grandeur," and a compositional style that is "charming" and "irresistible" (Los Angeles Times).
One of the most promising organists of her generation, Chelsea Chen has electrified audiences throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia in venues such as Singapore's Esplanade, Hong Kong's Cultural Centre, Kishinev's National Organ Hall, and Philadelphia's Kimmel Center. As a composer she is broadening the classical organ repertoire with her own works based on Asian folksongs.
Ms. Chen has soloed with orchestras throughout the world including the Wuhan Philharmonic in China, the Jakarta Simfonia in Indonesia, and the Juilliard Percussion Orchestra in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.
Ms. Chen has received acclaim as a composer since she premiered her own "Taiwanese Suite" (2003) and "Taiwan Tableaux" (2007) at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion. Recently her solo organ pieces have been performed in Canada and Taiwan, and her most recent concerto, "Jasmine Fantasy" (for violin, organ, and strings), has been performed by orchestras in the United States, China, and Indonesia. Her solo organ works were featured at the 2011 Region I/II and IV Conventions of the American Guild of Organists.
The recipient of the 2009 Lili Boulanger Memorial Award and winner of the 2005 Augustana/Reuter National Organ Competition, Ms. Chen is a graduate of Juilliard, where she received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees. She was also a full scholarship recipient at Yale University, where she earned an Artist Diploma.
Ms. Chen has recorded multiple CDs including "Live at Heinz Chapel," on the Heinz Chapel organ at the 2005 Convention of the American Institute of Organbuilders, and "Treasuers from the East,", with violinist Lewis Wong in 2010. Her playing has been aired on CNN.com, "Pipedreams" from American Public Media, Hawaii Public Radio, and Taiwan's Good News Radio. Her compositions are exclusively available from Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc.
Ms. Chen is Artist-in-Residence at the Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, and a member of Duo Wong-Chen with violinist Lewis Wong.
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CM Osewalt is a life-long New Yorker, a NYC High School principal and a twelve year elder at RPC.
A graduate of City College, Middlebury College, Lincoln College (Oxford, U.K.) and Bank Street's Principal Institute, he is father of four now grown children and the husband of the fair and lovely Priscilla for 31 years.
Charles is presently the founder and the principal of Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies. The mission/vision of the school is to "develop student leaders who serve their community with character."
Part of that development has been the work of the Morris Academy Mentor program where 25+ adult mentors from Hope for New York work with youth at the Morris academy to build social and emotional capacities. His life verse is Jeremiah 20:9 - "If I say 'I will not mention him or speak any more in his name,' (then) there is in my heart, as it were, a burning fire shut up in my bones."
Thus, in humility, he desires to read, speak, and live the Lord's word well.
Fiona has taught in the BFA fashion design program as adjunct faculty since 2005. In 2007 she became Project Coordinator, transitioning into full-time faculty within the School of Fashion as Director of External Projects a year later with oversight across all four programs. She developed relationships with multiple partners including Gap Inc, Banana Republic, Coach, Louis Vuitton, MCM, Swarovski ®, and Henri Bendel and LVMH. In her current role as BFA Director for Fashion Design Fiona is committed to leading the program through the implementation of the undergraduate review. A proponent of strong research and diverse entry points into the design process itself, her current project - a new book entitled “Fashion Design: PROCESS”, (AVA) - seeks to unmask these varied approaches, enabling students to better understand their own ways of working.
Fiona is undertaking a research project investigating learning styles and methodologies through a series of surveys, the results of which she hopes to share in upcoming academic journals.
Fiona holds an undergraduate degree in Fashion and Textiles from the University of Ulster in the UK and a BFA degree from Parsons and was the recipient of the Michael Kors' Designer of The Year Award ('93). In 1998, she launched her ready to wear label 'Fiona Walker'. Shown at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week and sold at select retailers in the U.S and internationally, the collection was featured in WWD, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, Lucky, and Cosmopolitan.
Barry Rowan has over thirty years of senior leadership experience building significant technology and communications companies. He currently serves as EVP, CFO and Chief Administrative Officer for Vonage Corporation in Holmdel, New Jersey where he has been since March 2010. He is fully engaged in helping lead the turnaround of this internet communications company with revenues of approximately $900 million.
From 2003-2006, he was with Nextel Partners, serving as its EVP, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. From its founding in 1999 in Kirkland, Washington, Nextel Partners grew into a Fortune 1000 company providing Nextel-branded services to over 2 million customers in mid-sized and rural markets in 31 states. The company was consistently ranked among the fastest growing wireless companies in the U.S., reaching $1 billion in revenues in its first five years. Fueled by this rapid growth, the equity value of the company grew from $2 billion to over $9 billion during the three years of Rowan’s tenure, culminating in its sale to Sprint for $10 billion in June of 2006.
After starting his career in the finance department for a division of Hewlett-Packard, Barry joined Comlinear Corporation after graduating from the Harvard Business School. Comlinear was a venture-backed technology company that would become the 110th fastest growing company in the U.S. He began as its Chief Financial Officer and was later promoted to President at age 32. In 1992 he joined Fluke Corporation (NYSE) as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In 1995, he became Vice President and General Manager of the verification tools division, and in 1996, he was promoted to Senior Vice President and General Manager of the newly-created networks division, a business that grew from start-up to $100 million in six years. Fluke’s stock price more than tripled during Rowan’s six years with the company. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Rowan served as Chief Financial Officer at Velocom Inc., a large-scale telecommunications start-up doing business in South America, and subsequently served as Chief Executive Officer of Vesper, the company's Brazilian subsidiary. From 2002 to 2003, he was a principal at Rowan & Company, LLC.
Mr. Rowan earned his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 1983, and his B.S., summa cum laude, in Business Administration and Chemical Biology from The College of Idaho in 1979.
Mr. Rowan has served as a director for publicly-traded companies, including ICO Global Communications currently, and ARIS Corporation, has served on the boards of multiple privately held companies, and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Driven by his belief in giving back to the community, he has also served many non-profit organizations, including as a trustee for Seattle Pacific University, the board of advisors for the Honors Program in Entrepreneurial Leadership at Gonzaga University, and as President of Bellevue Christian School. He has taught university courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is a frequently requested speaker at a wide-variety of forums. He is married to Linda, his best friend and wife of nearly thirty years, and they have two sons, Mark and David, both in their early twenties. An avid reader and lover of the outdoors, Barry enjoys skiing, hiking, golf, and most sports.
Born in the Bronx, Ali accepted Christ in high school through the ministries of Young Life and The Fellowship of Christian Athletes. She is thrilled to be living and serving in the heart of Manhattan. She graduated from the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University with degrees in Biomedical Engineering/Computer Applications and medicine. She completed a residency in Gynecology and Obstetrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital followed by private practice in Princeton, NJ. She is a sinner marveling at God's grace and His love and provision for someone as broken and flawed as her.
After many pivotal spiritual experiences, one of which was the impact of the Christian Union's ministry in Princeton, in 2005, she moved to NYC, joined Doctors of the World for which she examined and wrote affidavits for victims of torture who seek US asylum, and began a biblical hermeneutics course through Project Timothy. Subsequently, she served in missions for disaster relief to New Orleans, Pakistan, and Haiti. She has also ventured to Morocco, Honduras, and Malaysia to serve the poor. She is now the Area Director for the Greater NYC Christian Medical and Dental Associations and most recently served as a gynecologist at Premier Healthcare, a division of the Young Adult Institute providing gynecological care for the disabled. Ali and her husband, Greg, reside in Manhattan's Upper West Side and attend Redeemer Presbyterian Church.
Stephen Trafton appeared in the Original Revival Cast of the Broadway production of Les Miserables as an understudy for 12 roles including Marius. He performed on the National Tour of Phantom of the Opera in the ensemble and understudied the role of Raoul. He has a Bachelor of Music from Baldwin Wallace College in Cleveland, OH in Music Theatre. He has done numerous shows in NYC and has worked in regional theatres around the country. Stephen works with the children’s ministry at Redeemer, occasionally sings in ensembles during worship, and leads a Fellowship Group (bible study) for actors working in the NY theatre industry. He also blogs for Church and Art Network, an organization that targets arts leaders in order to build a stronger arts community within the church. Juliette and Stephen met and were married on the tour of Phantom in 2009. The both occasionally volunteer for an organization called Sing for Your Seniors, an organization that brings Broadway tunes into cancer hospitals, retirement homes, and nursing homes. Last October they were invited to Abilene Christian University’s Annual Summit where they presented a performance, 2 lectures on Faith and Theatre, and met individually with students. The currently live in NYC with their dog Puddleglum.
Juliette Trafton is currently starring as Luisa in the Fantasticks Off-Broadway. Previously, she performed on the National Tour of Phantom of the Opera in the ensemble and understudied the role of Christine. She also worked as performer with Disney Cruise Lines where she played Ariel and Princess Aurora. Juliette is a graduate of Abilene Christian University in Abilene, TX where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre. Favorite roles include Jane in Jane Eyre and Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls. Juliette regularly leads worship at Redeemer.
Juliette and Stephen met and were married on the tour of Phantom in 2009. The both occasionally volunteer for an organization called Sing for Your Seniors, an organization that brings Broadway tunes into cancer hospitals, retirement homes, and nursing homes. Last October they were invited to Abilene Christian University’s Annual Summit where they presented a performance, 2 lectures on Faith and Theatre, and met individually with students. The currently live in NYC with their dog Puddleglum.
Thirty years ago, after a stint working in campus ministry, helping students relate their deepest Christian convictions with their academic work in their various majors, Byron and his wife Beth opened Hearts & Minds, an independent bookstore in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, which has endured the shifts and struggles of the publishing industry. They enjoy their small town context, but travel to sell books at events throughout the country and serve many customers through on-line conversations, consulting, and book reviewing.
Byron has BA in education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a MA in Higher Education from Geneva College. In the late 1970s he served for four years with the Pittsburgh-based Coalition for Christian Outreach (CCO) doing campus ministry and helping develop their legendary Jubilee conference for college students. He briefly worked as a social justice and peacemaking organizer with the Pittsburgh-based Thomas Merton Center. For nearly 30 years they have sold books, music, and gifts to help customers learn more about the joys of daily discipleship and "thinking Christianly" about work, calling, public life, cultural renewal, and social justice.
Byron and Beth have three children, ages 29, 24, and 19. They attend First Presbyterian Church in York, PA. He enjoys speaking, teaching and consulting, and their book-selling ministry has lead them to resource gatherings with organizations such as IAM (International Arts Movement), American Scientific Affiliate (an association for Christians in the sciences), CLS (Christian Legal Society). Bread for the World (an anti-hunger lobbying group) and other such professional faith-based organizations. He has spoken at retreats for faculty and students, at colleges and in work-place workshops. When not on the road, he enjoys drinking coffee, listening to music, and, of course, reading widely. He blogs about books and reading at www.heartsandmindsbooks.com/booknotes/
Rev. David H. Kim is the Director of The Gotham Initiative, Redeemer’s intensive education program for young professionals, now in its fourth year. David served at Princeton University as a Chaplain and Executive Director of Manna Christian Fellowship for over twelve years. Manna has the unique vision of developing and engaging a gospel worldview, combining spiritual development with worldview formation. He received his BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania in biology, his MDiv from Westminster Theological Seminary, and ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary in Christian Ethics, and is currently pursuing his DMin at Fuller Theological Seminary. David studied under Max Stackhouse at Princeton and focused on the public theology of Abraham Kuyper. David was also one of the founding editors of Revisions, a Journal of Christian perspective at Princeton University. He has been invited to numerous churches and universities around the world to address issues of faith and work.
Mike Ruckles is a voice teacher, musical director, pianist and arranger. He maintains a busy private studio in NYC specializing in technique for Musical Theatre and contemporary commercial vocal styles, with students appearing in leading roles on and off-Broadway, in national tours and on concert stages across the country. His methodology incorporates elements of Alexander, Feldenkrais, Lessac, Estill, Body-Mapping (Conable), Resonant Voice Therapy and Fitzmaurice work among others. He has been privileged to study and work closely with world-renowned speech therapist and master teacher Joan Lader.
Mike served as musical director/private voice faculty for the School of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Northern Colorado for eight years before heading East. He studied piano at the University of Southern Colorado before completing a degree in Voice and an M.M. in Collaborative Piano at UNC. He currently serves as adjunct voice faculty for the New Studio on Broadway at NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts and teaches regularly for the Musical Theatre division of the New York Film Academy. He has also served on the voice faculty of Ann Reinking's Broadway Theatre Project and Jeff Whiting's Open Jar Institute in NYC.
Among his many projects, Mike worked as vocal coach/assistant musical director for a demo recording of the rock musical “Chess” produced for Sir Tim Rice, and in 2001, sang backup for Sarah Brightman’s “La Luna” tour with Josh Groban. He served as music director/pianist for the 2007 workshop/reading of Frank Wildhorn’s new musical “Wonderland” starring Brandi Burkhardt and the 2008 workshop/reading of Wildhorn’s “Havana”. He is a proud member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the New York Singing Teachers’ Association (NYSTA) and is a frequent NATS lecturer/clinician. His thesis, “Aesthetics and Pedagogy of the Belt Voice” was completed in 2002, and has proven influential in revamping the training of Musical Theatre performers, particularly at the university level.
Mike has also lectured at the Center for Voice and Speech in Denver with preeminent voice scientist Dr. Ingo Titze as part of his Summer Vocology Institute. In 2008, Michael music directed and composed music for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts premiere of “Girls Only” with new productions opening across the country. As a pianist, he has worked with such luminaries as Hugh Jackman, Patrick Wilson, Raúl Esparza, America Ferrera, Montego Glover, Ben Vereen and Sherie Rene Scott.
>> Lamont Hiebert is an artist and abolitionist. He the Co-Founder of the anti-trafficking organization, Love146, and he's a successful singer/songwriter, most notably as the front man for the band Ten Shekel Shirt. He has performed at social action events with Dave Matthews Band, John Legend and Natasha Bedingfield, and has been the musical guest of GQ Magazine, the NBA, hundreds of campuses and churches across the U.S. His hit song OCEAN is featured on the Bethany Hamilton documentary, "Heart of a Soul Surfer."
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In 2001, Steven Arcieri began Arcieri & Associates, a talent agency specializing in celebrity endorsements and voiceovers and which currently represents artists such as Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver, Liev Schreiber, Peter Coyote, Jeffrey Wright, Laura Linney, Paul Rudd and many others. His advertising and entertainment career began in the casting department of Grey Advertising before shifting to the agent side with Writers and Artists Talent Agency. He then spent 10 years at Cunningham, Escott, Dipene, focusing on celebrity and non-celebrity voiceovers before joining International Creative Management (ICM), where he headed the Commercial and Celebrity Endorsement Divisions of the New York office. Steven also created and established a voiceover department for ICM, growing their overall commercial department into the second highest revenue-producing division of ICM/NY before leaving to start Arcieri & Associates. He resides in Manhattan with his wife, Mary Catherine, and 11-year old son James. Steven has been a member of Redeemer Presbyterian Church since 1990.
Katherine came to Redeemer in 2002 to establish the Center for Faith & Work to help people nurture a meaningful integration between people’s faith and their professional work. Prior to this ministry role at Redeemer, Katherine served 20 years in the high tech industry. In California, she served as CEO of Pensare, Inc. – an online management education company, and CEO of One Touch Systems, Inc. – a hardware/software products company. Before that, she was President of Private Satellite Network – a satellite services company - in New York City. She also worked in various consulting, sales, and marketing roles, primarily in the technology sector. She received an MBA from The Darden School, University of Virginia and a BA in Psychology and Education from Wittenberg University. She became a Christian mid-career in NYC through the ministries of Redeemer Presbyterian Church and has taken seminary classes at Regent College in Vancouver.