GOBLE FAMILY FOUNDATION - Key Persons
True bravery - the kind that calls us to experience potential loss and rejection in the name of justice - is what Brenda exemplifies. In her new book, Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now, Brenda talks about the moments she chose to respond to the call in front of her, and celebrates the bravery of change makers both past and present. Moving from an approach to justice that sought to water down the message in order to not offend, to speaking the truth regardless of the consequences, we could think of no better human to receive this quarters Freestarter Award. Thank you for your bravery, Brenda.
Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil is a dynamic speaker, teacher, author and reconciliation leader. She is a true freestarter - trailblazing a new path while thoroughly loving and rigorously prophetic. Her mission is to inspire and empower emerging Christian leaders to be practitioners of reconciliation in their various spheres of influence. She is recognized internationally as one of the foremost thought-leaders of reconciliation and was featured as one of the 50 most influential women to watch by Christianity Today.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Executive Director
is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Survivor Alliance. She recently completed her PhD at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham where she studied the wellbeing of survivors of slavery and human trafficking. She currently serves as a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham Rights Lab. Minh is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area region of California and a proud two-time UC Berkeley alum. Minh earned her B.A. in Sociology and Masters in Social Welfare, with an emphasis on Community Mental Health. Minh is an avid backpacker, poet, and runner. She is a fan of farmers' markets, loves to sing, and is a true love warrior. You will rarely find her without a journal or post-it notes, and she hopes to one day launch a stationery line called Minhspiration.
Before founding the Telos Group, Greg lived in Ramallah, the West Bank, where he advised the Palestinian leadership on peace negotiations with Israel. Although Greg was born and raised in San Diego, California, much of his extended family still lives in Beit Sahour, a predominantly Palestinian Christian town near Bethlehem. He has lectured widely on the Middle East and has been published by The Review of Faith & International Affairs and The New York Times. Greg is also a founding member and the Chair of the Board of Directors for Narrative 4, a global non-profit that cultivates empathic leadership through story exchange. And he is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Greg is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and Yale Law School.
Irv Henderson was born in Belize, Central America as the youngest of 10 children and came to the US to pursue undergraduate and graduate studies. Today, he is the CEO and co-founder of talech, a software solution that is used by small businesses in the US, Canada and Europe. Irv is passionate about the power of education to lift families out of poverty and to transform a country. He is a board member of PathLight International, a non-profit agency operating in Belize and focusing on educating children in need. As a board member, Irv is active in efforts to engage the local government and private sectors as well as multinational agencies on education policy and financial partnership. Learn more about Pathlight International.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Executive Director
Todd spent sixteen years in senior positions in the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government before co-founding the Telos Group. From 2005 to 2009, he was Chief of Staff in the Secretary of State's Office of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. He also spent two years as Senior Advisor in the Department's Office of International Religious Freedom, where he specialized in religious freedom in the Middle East. Todd worked for a decade in the U.S. Congress, including six years as Chief of Staff to Senator Tim Hutchinson. He is a native Arkansan and a graduate of the University of Arkansas. He began his career as an educator. He and his family live in Fairfax County, Virginia.