Social Justice Summit: Come Together to Learn, Share, & Grow

Featuring leadership from:

Rev. West McNeill of NYS Labor-Religion Coalition (a project of the Kairos Center at Tides)

Providing Keynote Address Highlighting the Challenges of These Times

Rev. McNeill is the NYS Labor-Religion Coalition Program Director. They are ordained in the United Church of Christ and have over a decade of experience organizing with community, faith, and labor organizations across New York State. They were named to City & State’s “Faith Power 100” list of New York’s most influential religious leaders. West holds an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, a B.A. in journalism from Ithaca College, and is a graduate of the Union Leadership Institute of the NYS AFL-CIO and Cornell. 

Social Justice Engagement & Training facilitated by:

• • Juan Haro of Movement, Justice in El Barrio

  • Malinda Ware & Marryellen Whittington-Couse, Opening Doors Institute

  • Margaret Mwale of Self Development of People & Brian Frick, Director of Retreat Ministries for the Presbyterian Church (USA)

Resource Opportunities:

• • Mark Duncan of The Fund Coach – providing funds development support

  • Marissa Badgley of ReLOVEution – a nonprofit leader support resource

  • Know of a resource group who’d like to be included? Let us know!

Nonprofit Groups Attending And/Or Endorsing:

• • Proyecto Faro
  • Indivisible of Rockland
  • The Kairos Center
  • Fountain House, NY
  • Restorative Justice Initiative
  • Interfaith Center of NY
  • Self Development of People
  • The Presbyterian Hunger Program
  • Interim Unified Agency of the Presbyterian Church, USA
  • Fellowship of Reconciliation
  • Sweetwater Cultural Center (the Indigenous Embassy)
  • The Penguin Rep. Theatre
  • Moms Demand Rockland
  • Rockland Coalition to End the New Jim Crow

Faith Leaders Attending: 

• • Rev. Jihyun Oh Stated Clerk of the General Assembly and Executive Director of the Interim Unified Agency of the Presbyterian Church, USA (PCUSA)

  • Rev. Dr. Shannan Vance-Ocampo Executive Presbyter of the Presbyter of S. New England

  • Rev. Dr. SanDawna Gaulman- Ashely Synod Executive of the Synod of the Northeast

  • Rev. Dr. Mark Suriano Pastor of United Congregational UCC of Park Ridge, NJ

  • Sara Pottschmidt Lisherness National Director of Missions at PCUSA

  • Margaret Mwale Associate for Community Development and Constituent Relations at Committee on the Self Development of People

  • Andrew Kang-Bartlett Associate for Presbyterian Hunger Program, PCUSA

  • Rev. Cornell Edmonds of  Church of the Covenant, NY PCUSA “Church of the United Nations”