BEDROCK - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Senior Advisor
• CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs
• CEO, Jewish Council for Public Affairs

Amy Spitalnick is the CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the national convener of Jewish coalitions working across communities to build a just and inclusive American democracy. She previously served as Executive Director of Integrity First for America, which won its groundbreaking lawsuit against the neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and hate groups responsible for the Charlottesville violence. Under Amy's leadership, IFA became a powerful national voice in the fight against white supremacy, antisemitism, and extremism - and its Charlottesville case has emerged as a model for accountability. Amy also serves as a Senior Advisor on Extremism to Human Rights First, and on the Advisory Board of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University. She has extensive experience in government, politics, and advocacy, including as Communications Director and Senior Policy Advisor to the New York Attorney General and spokesperson and advisor to the New York City Mayor. She also served as J Street's first press secretary. Amy has been named a Women inPower Fellow at the 92nd Street Y, a Truman National Security Project Fellow, a City & State 40 Under 40 Rising Star, and a NY Jewish Week 36 Under 36 Changemaker. She graduated from Tufts University.

Job Titles:

• Leader
• Executive Director, Sikh Coalition

Anisha is a civil rights leader with more than 15 years of experience in public interest and social justice issues, legal and policy advocacy work, and grassroots organizing. As a first generation Sikh woman who grew up in the United States, Anisha has had a passion for defending the civil rights of the Sikh community since the earliest days of her career. Like many Sikh Coalition staff, board members, and sevadaars, the backlash against our and other communities after 9/11 shaped her early career. In the face of that hate, Anisha quickly came to believe that advocacy and education were essential to raising Sikh awareness and not just explaining but celebrating Sikhi and Sikhs' contributions to our nation. She began volunteering with the Sikh Coalition in the months that followed, and the relationship deepened further in 2005 when, as a college student, she drafted, advanced, and delivered a resolution to a Florida state prison that was denying an incarcerated Sikh man the right to maintain his kesh. Thanks to our work together, that community member was ultimately transferred to a different facility that agreed to respect his articles of faith. Prior to joining the Sikh Coalition, Anisha led the courts and democracy programs at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, where she developed strategies to both protect reproductive healthcare in U.S. courts and find ways to bring the levers of power in government and voting systems back to the people as the Director of Judiciary and Democracy Affairs. Before her time at Planned Parenthood, she held two positions at the Center for American Progress (CAP), including Senior Organizing Director for Generation Progress and Campaign Manager at Legal Progress, as well as a policy attorney and project manager position with United Sikhs. Throughout her career, she has fought for the civil rights of all through work on legislation, direct lobbying, and organizing, and she brings additional expertise around core areas of the Sikh Coalition's work, including anti-bullying efforts, employment discrimination, and accommodations for articles of faith.

Job Titles:

• National Leader
• Senior Advisor at New America

Cecilia Muñoz is a national leader in public policy and public interest technology with over three decades of experience in the non-profit sector and 8 years of service on President Obama's senior team. She is also the author of the award-winning More Than Ready: Be Strong and Be You...and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise, which shares insights from her career as well as the careers of other notable women of color. She is also a contributing author to Immigration Matters, West Wingers, What My Mother Gave Me, and This I Believe. Cecilia spent two decades at the National Council of La Raza (now UNIDOS US); winning a MacArthur Fellowship for her work on immigration and civil rights. She served in President Barack Obama's West Wing, becoming the first Latino to lead the White House Domestic Policy Council. She serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including the Kresge, MacArthur and Joyce Foundations, Protect Democracy, and Civic Nation. She also serves on the boards of Headspace Health and AdHoc. Cecilia has spent her entire career in the non-profit and public sectors. Originally from the Midwest, the daughter of immigrants from Bolivia, she moved to Washington in the late 1980s to work on immigration policy at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR, now Unidos US), the nation's largest Hispanic policy and advocacy organization. She spent 20 years at NCLR, developing expertise on a range of policy issues and eventually leading its Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation. In 2009 she joined the Obama administration, where she spent 8 years in the West Wing, first as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs followed by five years as Director of the Domestic Policy Council (DPC). She is the first Hispanic person to serve as the DPC Director. Cecilia is currently a Senior Advisor at New America, which she joined in 2017 to lead local initiatives and build a team on public interest technology. She took leave from New America in 2020 to lead the domestic and economic policy team at the Biden/Harris Transition. She is also a Senior Fellow at Results for America, a nonprofit that advances the use of data and evidence in policy making, and Senior Advisor to Project Hyphen, which works to build public-private partnerships between philanthropy and government. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000 for her work on immigration and civil rights, and is a trustee of the Kresge, MacArthur and Joyce Foundations. She advises the Open Society and JPB Foundations, and serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations. Cecilia is also a wife and mother of two grown daughters. She lives with her husband in Maryland.

Job Titles:

• Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute
• Executive Director, George W. Bush Presidential Institute

David J. Kramer serves as the Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute. Prior to joining the Bush Institute, he taught at Florida International University's Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, where he also was Senior Fellow in the Václav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy and Director for European and Eurasian Affairs. Before moving to Miami, Kramer worked in Washington, DC for 24 years, including as Senior Director for Human Rights and Democracy with The McCain Institute for International Leadership; President of Freedom House; and Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Kramer also served eight years in the U.S. Department of State during the George W. Bush administration, including as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (responsible for Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus affairs as well as regional non-proliferation issues); Professional Staff Member in the Secretary's Office of Policy Planning; and Senior Advisor to the Undersecretary for Global Affairs. He also was Executive Director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy in Washington. He is author of the book, Back to Containment: Dealing with Putin's Regime. Kramer chairs the board of the Free Russia Foundation and serves on the board of the International Republican Institute. A native of Massachusetts, Kramer received his M.A. in Soviet studies from Harvard University and his B.A. in Soviet Studies and Political Science from Tufts University.

Job Titles:

• President
• President and CEO of the NAACP
• President and CEO, NAACP

Derrick Johnson serves as President and CEO of the NAACP, a title he has held since October of 2017. President Johnson formerly served as vice chairman of the NAACP National Board of Directors, as well as state president for the Mississippi State Conference NAACP. A longstanding member and leader of the NAACP, Mr. Johnson has helped guide the Association through a period of re-envisioning and reinvigoration. Under President Johnson's leadership, the NAACP has undertaken such efforts as the 2018 "Log Out" Facebook Campaign, pressuring Facebook after reports of Russian hackers targeting African Americans, the Jamestown to Jamestown Partnership, marking the 400th year enslaved Africans first touched the shores of America, the 2020 We are Done Dying Campaign, exposing the inequities embedded into the American healthcare system and the country at large, and most recently the victorious 2020 Supreme Court lawsuit NAACP vs. Trump, which prevents Donald Trump's administration from rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for millions of young immigrants. President Johnson also continues to be on the frontlines on some of the most pressing civil rights issues of our time, calling out Virginia Governor Ralph Northam for his use of Blackface, condemning the burning of Black churches in Tennessee and Louisiana, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to Attorney General William Barr's nomination, and overseeing the NAACP's vote to impeach President Donald J. Trump at the 110th National Convention in Detroit. Born in Detroit, Mr. Johnson attended Tougaloo College in Jackson, MS. He then received his JD from the South Texas College of Law in Houston, TX. Mr. Johnson has also furthered his training through fellowships with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the George Washington University School of Political Management, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has served as an annual guest lecturer at Harvard Law School, lending his expertise to Professor Lani Guinier's course on social movements, and as an adjunct professor at Tougaloo College. Mr. Johnson is a veteran activist who has dedicated his career to defending the rights and improving the lives of Mississippians. As State President of the NAACP Mississippi State Conference, he led critical campaigns for voting rights and equitable education. He successfully managed two bond referendum campaigns in Jackson, MS that brought $150 million in school building improvements and $65 million towards the construction of a new convention center, respectively. As a regional organizer at the Jackson-based non-profit, Southern Echo, Inc., Mr. Johnson provided legal, technical, and training support for communities across the South. President Johnson is frequently featured on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and many others, advocating on behalf of the Black community and all those who are affected by systemic oppression and prejudice.

Job Titles:

• Governor

Job Titles:

• Leader
• President and Founder, Interfaith America

Eboo Patel is a civic leader who believes that religious diversity is an essential and inspiring dimension of American democracy. Named "one of America's best leaders" by U.S. News and World Report, Eboo is Founder and President of Interfaith America, the leading interfaith organization in the United States. Under his leadership, Interfaith America has worked with governments, universities, private companies, and civic organizations to make faith a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division. Eboo served on President Obama's Inaugural Faith Council, has given hundreds of keynote addresses, and has written five books, including We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy. He is an Ashoka Fellow and holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. Eboo lives in Chicago with his wife, Shehnaz, and their two sons.

Job Titles:

• Author
• First - Ever Special Representative

Farah Pandith is an author, foreign policy strategist, and former diplomat. A world-leading expert and pioneer in countering violent extremism, she is the author of the book How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat. She is a frequent media commentator and public speaker and has written for publications including The Economist, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. Farah served as a political appointee under three presidents - most recently as the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim Communities, serving both Secretary Clinton and Secretary Kerry. She has served on the National Security Council, at the U.S. Department of State, and at the U.S. Agency for International Development in various senior roles. She was appointed to the Department of Homeland Security's Advisory Council, chairing its countering violent extremism task force. She is currently a senior advisor with the Anti-Defamation League, adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and adjunct professor at Georgetown University. She serves on several boards including Mercy Corps, We Are Family Foundation, and The Asian American Foundation. In fall 2020, the Muhammad Ali Center named Pandith the first-ever Muhammad Ali Global Peace Laureate for her proven track record of and commitment to promoting diversity, cohesion, and respect. Farah was born in India and raised in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Job Titles:

• Executive Director, ACT NOW

James E. Copple has a long and distinguished career in youth work, education, substance abuse, and crime and violence prevention. A nationally recognized speaker and writer in this field, Mr. Copple has served as the Founding President of Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the National Crime Prevention Council in Washington, D.C., President of the International Institute for Alcohol Awareness, and Senior Policy Analyst for the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. He is a Founding Partner of Strategic Applications International, LLC and President of Servant Forge, an international non-profit focused on leadership development in the non-profit and government sector. In 2015, Copple facilitated President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing and was the principal writer for the Implementation Guide for the Department of Justice. Over the past ten years, Mr. Copple facilitated 22 statewide summits on Methamphetamine Prevention and Enforcement, numerous summits on violence prevention, gun prevention, and comprehensive planning on alcohol prevention among underage youth. Mr. Copple specializes in designing and implementing comprehensive system responses across local, state, and federal governments to address the major social issues of our day. Recently, on behalf of SAI, Mr. Copple has worked in International Development working with governments and communities to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa. Mr. Copple has authored two major pieces of legislation, the Drug Free Communities Act and the Crime Free Rural State and Communities Act in the Department of Justice Reauthorization Bill. He regularly consults with states and communities on model state statutes and local ordinances related to drug abuse, gang violence, and underage drinking. While at NCPC, he played a major role in the design and implementation of Project Safe Neighborhoods. Mr. Copple has done doctoral work in education at the University of Kansas, History at Boston College and The Johns Hopkins University. He taught history at Eastern Nazarene College, and Boston College. He served as an adjunct professor of education at the Wichita State University and Special Assistant to the Superintendent of Schools in Wichita, Kansas. He loves sailing, reading, and spending time with his eight children and 19 grandchildren.

Job Titles:

• Board Member of the Clinton Foundation
• President and CEO of UnidosUS

Since 2005, Janet Murguía has served as President and CEO of UnidosUS (formerly known as National Council of La Raza)-the nation's largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization. In that role, Murguía has sought to strengthen UnidosUS's work and enhance its record of impact as a vital American institution. Murguía has also work to amplify the Latino voice on issues affecting the Hispanic community such as education, health care, immigration, civil rights, and the economy. Murguía began her career in Washington, DC as legislative counsel to former Congressman Jim Slattery from her home state, Kansas. She worked with Congressman Slattery for seven years before joining the Clinton administration, where she served for six years as a deputy assistant to President Clinton, including deputy director of legislative affairs. After serving in the Clinton administration, Murguía went on to serve as deputy campaign manager and director of constituency outreach for the Gore/Lieberman presidential campaign where she was the primary liaison between former Vice President Gore and national constituency groups. In 2001, Murguía joined the University of Kansas (KU) as Executive Vice Chancellor for University Relations, where she oversaw KU's internal and external relations with the public. She is credited for coordinating the university's strategic planning and marketing efforts at the four KU campuses. Over the course of her career, Murguía has been featured in various magazines and newspapers for her work and leadership. This includes being one of USA Today's 2022 National Women of the Year, highlighted on Hispanic Business Magazines' "100 Top Latinas" and "100 Most Influential Hispanics" lists, Washingtonian magazine's "100 Most Powerful Women in Washington," The NonProfit Times's list of top 50 leaders of "Power and Influence," People En Español's "100 Most Influential Hispanics," Newsweek's Third Annual Women and Leadership issue, Poder magazine's "The Poderosos 100," Latino Leaders magazine's "101 Top Leaders of the Hispanic Community," and Hispanic magazine's "Powerful Latinos." Murguía was also the first Hispanic to give the keynote speech at the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Breakfast in Birmingham, Alabama. Murguía also received Alpha Phi's Frances E. Willard Award in 2018. In 2019 Murguía was inducted into the Starr Women's Hall of Fame which recognizes Kansas City women who have made significant and enduring contributions to their fields of endeavor and helped open new frontiers for women. Murguía is currently a Board member of the Clinton Foundation, the United States-Spain Council, the Raza Development Fund, and the Hispanic Association for Corporate Responsibility. She also serves as a member of Diversity Advisory Councils for Bank of America, Charter Communications, Comcast/NBC Universal, T-Mobile, and Wells Fargo. She received three degrees from KU: a B.S. degree in journalism, a B.A. degree in Spanish, and a J.D. degree from the KU School of Law. She has also received several honorary degrees-a Doctor of Humane Letters from California State University, Dominguez Hills, an honorary Doctor of Laws from Wake Forest University, and an honorary Doctor of Laws from Williams College.

Job Titles:

• Chairman and Founding Director, Georgetown Center for Faith and Justice
• Writer

Jim Wallis is a writer, teacher, preacher and justice advocate who believes the gospel of Jesus must be transformed from its cultural and political captivities, and always be "good news" to the poor and oppressed. He is a New York Times bestselling author, public theologian, renowned preacher and commentator on ethics and public life. He is the inaugural holder of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Chair in Faith and Justice at the McCourt School of Public Policy and the founding Director of the Georgetown University Center on Faith and Justice. In 2022, Washingtonian magazine named Wallis one of the 500 most influential people shaping policy in DC. Raised in a Midwestern evangelical family, as a teenager Wallis questioned the racial segregation in his church and community, which led him to the Black churches and neighborhoods of inner-city Detroit. He spent his student years involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements at Michigan State University. He is the founder of Sojourners, and is the author of 13 books, including America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to America; God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It; The Great Awakening; The Call to Conversion; and Christ in Crisis: Reclaiming Jesus in a Time of Fear, Hate, and Violence; his latest book, The False White Gospel: Rejecting Christian Nationalism, Reclaiming True Faith, and Refounding Democracy, was released on April 2nd, 2024 and is available wherever you buy books. Wallis also hosts the popular podcast The Soul of the Nation. He served on President Obama's White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and has taught faith and public life courses at Harvard and Georgetown University. He also serves as a Research Fellow at the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. Wallis has previously taught at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and was awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Georgetown University in 2007 when he gave the college commencement address. "Coach Jim" also served for 22 seasons as a Little League coach for his two baseball playing sons.

Job Titles:

• Executive Chairman of the Office of American Possibilities

John Bridgeland is Executive Chairman of the Office of American Possibilities, a civic moonshot factory to tap the entrepreneurial talent of Americans to solve public challenges together across divides. In that capacity, he is Co-Founder and CEO of the COVID Collaborative, a national platform to combat COVID-19; Co-Chairman of Welcome.US to engage Americans in supporting the resettlement of Afghan, Ukrainian and other refugees; Co-Founder of ACT NOW, a ground-up effort to re-envision community safety and policing; Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of More Perfect, a national initiative to align efforts in democratic renewal around 5 "Sustainable Democracy Goals;" and Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Dignity.us: A Citizens' Initiative to Address Hate-Fueled Violence in America launched at the White House United We Stand Summit. He is also Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Service Year Alliance, an initiative to create a civilian national service counterpart to military service in the United States; Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of Malaria No More to end malaria deaths in Africa; and Co-Convener of the Grad Nation campaign to address the high school dropout crisis. Previously, Bridgeland was appointed by President Obama to serve on the White House Council for Community Solutions. He also served as Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Assistant to the President, and first Director of the USA Freedom Corps after 9/11 under President George W. Bush. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law and has given commencement addresses at the College of William & Mary, Johns Hopkins University, Saint Anselm College, Averett University, Hamline University, Ripon College, Westwood College, and Artist Corps. In addition, he played tennis on the Harvard Varsity Team and founded Tennis for America in 2020 with the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, which awarded him their "Lifetime Achievement Award," presented by Wimbledon Champion Stan Smith. He is the author of the book, Heart of the Nation: Volunteering and America's Civic Spirit.

Job Titles:

• CEO and Director, Anti - Defamation League
• CEO of ADL

Jonathan Greenblatt is CEO of ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), the world's leading anti-hate organization with a distinguished record of fighting antisemitism and advocating for just and fair treatment to all. Jonathan joined ADL in 2015 after serving in the White House as special assistant to President Obama and director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. He joined the government after a distinguished career in business as a successful social entrepreneur and corporate executive: he cofounded Ethos Brands, the company that launched Ethos Water (acquired by Starbucks, 2005), founded All for Good (acquired by Points of Light, 2011), and served as a senior executive at realtor.com (acquired by News Corp, 2014). Since becoming CEO, Jonathan has modernized ADL while refocusing it on the mission it has had since its founding in 1913: to fight the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all. Under Jonathan, ADL has modernized its operations, innovated its approaches to counter antisemitism from all sides and enhanced its efforts to combat extremism in all forms. Jonathan's first book was published in 2022. It Could Happen Here: Why America is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable-And How We Can Stop It, is a bracing primer on how we-as individuals, as organizations, and as a society-can strike back against antisemitism and hate.

Job Titles:

• Executive Director of the Arab American Institute
• Executive Director, Arab American Institute

Maya Berry is executive director of the Arab American Institute (AAI). In 1996, she established AAI's first government relations department, which she led for five years before becoming a legislative director for U.S. House of Representatives Minority Whip David Bonior, where she managed the congressman's legislative strategy and developed policies on international relations, human rights, immigration, civil rights and liberties, and trade. With a deep knowledge of public policymaking, Maya has helped expand AAI's work on combatting hate crime, protecting the rights of securitized communities, and strengthening our democracy. In her personal capacity, Maya is a long-time Democratic Party activist who served as a member of the 2016 Democratic National Convention's Platform Standing Committee and has attended all but one Democratic National Convention as a Delegate, Alternate or Standing Committee Member since 1992.

Job Titles:

• Executive Director of the UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy

Melody Barnes is executive director of the UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy and W.L. Lyons Brown Family Director for Policy and Public Engagement at the Democracy Initiative, an interdisciplinary teaching, research, and engagement effort led by the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia. She is the J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the Miller Center and is also a distinguished fellow at the UVA School of Law. A co-founder of the domestic strategy firm MB2 Solutions LLC, Barnes has spent more than 25 years crafting public policy on a wide range of domestic issues. During the administration of President Barack Obama, Barnes was assistant to the president and director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. She was also executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress and chief counsel to the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Her experience includes an appointment as director of legislative affairs for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and assistant counsel to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights. Barnes began her career as an attorney with Shearman & Sterling in New York City. Barnes earned her BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she graduated with honors in history, and her JD from the University of Michigan. She serves on the boards of directors of several corporate, non-profit, and philanthropic organizations.

Mulvaney was Director of The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) between February 2017-March 2020, where he oversaw the preparation and presentation of three federal budgets of approximately US$1.2 trillion each. He managed the 500-person office, which is the largest component of the Executive Office of the President. He was also responsible for the Offices of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Federal Procurement, Financial Management, E-Government and Information Technology, and the US Digital Service. Mulvaney was also the Senior Advisor and Acting Chief of Staff to the President of the United States between December 2018-March 2020. In this role he was the primary manager of the 4000 person Executive Office of the President, including the National Security Council, the Council of Economic Advisers, the Office of Trade & Manufacturing Policy, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy. He was also Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from November 2018-December 2019, overseeing a 1700-person primary federal agency within the financial services industry. Before his time at the White House, Mulvaney was a Member of Congress in the House of Representatives between 2011-17, serving on multiple committees. He also founded both the Bitcoin Caucus and Blockchain Caucus, as well as having experience within the private sector, more specifically within law, real estate, financial regulation and restaurant franchising. Mulvaney studied international economics at Georgetown University, as well as studying law at the University of North Carolina and business at Harvard. He appears regularly on both US and international television, included all the major US networks and cable news programs, the BBC and Sky News in the UK, and other outlets around the world.

Job Titles:

• CEO of TAAF
• CEO, the Asian American Foundation

Norman Chen has served as CEO of TAAF since November 2021. Before joining TAAF, Chen co-founded Leading Asian Americans to Unite for Change (LAAUNCH) in September 2020 and created the Social Tracking of Asian Americans in the U.S. (STAATUS) Index, a landmark study of American attitudes toward Asian Americans. Prior to his leadership in AAPI advocacy and philanthropy, Chen spent his career as an entrepreneur, investor, and community leader building innovative life sciences companies and supporting nonprofit organizations in both the United States and Asia.

Job Titles:

• President

Ryan B. Greer serves as the inaugural President of Bedrock. Ryan also serves as a non-resident Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project and leads a violence prevention strategy consultancy, Vasa Strategies. Prior to joining Bedrock, Ryan served in public policy, community engagement, and violent extremism prevention roles, including most recently as National Security Director and Chief of Staff for the Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) Government Relations, Advocacy, and Community Engagement (GRACE) team. Prior to his GRACE team role, he served as Director for Program Assessment and Strategy at ADL, leading innovative counter-extremism activities for the ADL Programs Division. Previously, Ryan served as a consultant for several terrorism prevention clients. He also served in government, as a Senior Advisor for community partnerships and terrorism prevention at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as a counterterrorism Policy Advisor and also as a Program Officer at the U.S. Department of State, as a Special Assistant for the White House National Security Council, and on staff for two Members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Ryan volunteered as a non-resident Fellow for New America's International Security Program, as Co-Director for Mentorship for Veterans in Global Leadership, and as a Regional Board Member for Indego Africa. He is a U.S. Department of State Meritorious Honor Award Recipient. He holds a master's in public policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and a bachelor's from Skidmore College.

Job Titles:

• President and CEO of LGBTQ Advocacy Organization
• President and CEO, GLAAD

Sarah Kate Ellis is the President and CEO of LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD. During her nine years of leading GLAAD, she has run winning campaigns for marriage equality, representation of LGBTQ people in media, education on transgender people, and more. She works directly with CEOs, elected officials, and the most recognizable journalists and celebrities to advance LGBTQ acceptance. She has moderated and participated in official engagements about global LGBTQ issues at the White House, before the U.S. Congress, and at leading industry conferences and events including the FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, Clinton Global Initiative, and the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Sarah Kate is a regular expert on CNN, MSNBC, and across print and online media. Most recently, she was named to the 2023 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Prior to GLAAD, Sarah Kate was a media executive. She and her wife co-authored a new children's book entitled ‘All Moms' and they reside in New York with their children.

Job Titles:

• Policy Advisor to President

Susan E. Rice most recently served as Domestic Policy Advisor to President Joe Biden from January 2021 to May 2023. Previously, Rice was President Obama's National Security Advisor and U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2009-2017, and a member of the Cabinet. She is the only person to have served in the White House as both National Security Advisor and Domestic Policy Advisor. During the Clinton Administration she was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, as well as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs and Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping at the National Security Council. Rice began her career as a management consultant and worked for several years at the Brookings Institution as a Senior Fellow. Rice received her B.A. in History from Stanford University with honors and her master's degree and doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. A native of Washington, DC, she is married and has two grown children.

Job Titles:

• President of the National Association of Evangelicals
• President, National Association of Evangelicals

Walter Kim became the president of the National Association of Evangelicals in January 2020. He previously served as a pastor at Boston's historic Park Street Church and at churches in Vancouver, Canada and Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as a campus chaplain at Yale University. He preaches, writes and engages in collaborative leadership to connect the Bible to the intellectual and cultural issues of the day. He regularly teaches in conferences and classrooms; addresses faith concerns with elected officials and public institutions; and provides theological and cultural commentary to leading news outlets. He serves on the boards of Christianity Today and World Relief and consults with a wide range of organizations. Kim received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, his M.Div. from Regent College in Vancouver, and his B.A. from Northwestern University.