Our Team
We’re Jesus-followers working around the globe to equip and mobilize Christians to be peacebuilders. Be part of the movement by supporting our team to help Christians be better peacemakers and to partner with our neighbors across lines of difference!
Give to a team member below or donate directly to Peace Catalyst’s main operating fund.
CORE TEAM
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PETER DIGITALE ANDERSON
Executive Director
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BRYAN CAREY
Director of International Peacebuilding
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NICOLE GIBSON
Director of Communications
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MICHELLE WEST-JAMES
Director of Development
PEACEBUILDING TEAM
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MERCY AIKEN
Program Manager | Middle East
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LIZ DIGITALE ANDERSON
Program Director | Minneapolis, Minnesota
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PETER DIGITALE ANDERSON
Executive Director | Minneapolis, Minnesota
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SALEEM ANFOUS
Justice Advocate & Across the Divide Podcast Producer | Bethlehem, Palestine
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NICK & LAURA ARMSTRONG
Program Coordinators | Boise, Idaho
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MARTIN BROOKS
Peace Ambassador & President Emeritus | Louisville, Kentucky
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STEPHANIE & BRYAN CAREY
Peacebuilding Consultants & Trainers | Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
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KRISTIN CAYNOR
Program Manager | Phoenix, Arizona
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DAVID CHAVEZ
Program Coordinator | Bolivia
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BILL CLARK
Program Director | Seattle, Washington
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ANDY & CARI CONKLIN-LARSEN
Program Directors | Seattle, Washington
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NEAL FOSTER
Program Director | Raleigh, North Carolina
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PHIL & CAREN GAZLEY
Program Directors | Norwich, England
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KEVIN GRABLE
Program Director | Reseda, California
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JAIME HARRIS
Peacemaker & Consultant | Indonesia
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PHILIP KAKUNGULU
Peacebuilding Mobilizer & Conflict Transformation Trainer | Kampala, Uganda
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STEVE LIED
Peace Ambassador | Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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MICHAEL MCDOUGLE
Professor of Peace & Conflict Studies (LCC University) | Klaipeda, Lithuania
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MIRELA POPAJA-HADžIć
Team Member Care, Therapist, Conflict Transformation Trainer | Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
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STEVE SCHALLERT
Community Organizer & Kingian Nonviolence Specialist | Cape Town, South Africa
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KIRSTEN SCHLEWITZ
Peacebuilding Educator, Digital Activist and Community Builder, Creation Care Specialist | Belgrade, Serbia
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JENNIE TELFER
Mobilizer & Conflict Transformation Trainer | Taebaek, South Korea
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DAVID VIDMAR
Program Director | San Diego, California
NEW TEAM MEMBERS
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MOSES ABOLADE
Peacebuilding Consultant, Facilitator, and Peace Educator | Abuja, Nigeria
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ANTHONY KHAIR
Justice Advocate & Decolonial Theologian | Palestine
OUR BOARD
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Jenni Edwards has had various roles in both Accounting and Finance. She has worked in manufacturing, education, service, and nonprofit organizations. She searches for peace work in her local community and has been a supporter of Peace Catalyst’s work internationally for several years.
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As an American of Syrian descent, David is passionate about conflict transformation in the Middle East and the transformative potential of Christians participating in peacebuilding around the globe. He has spent time living and working in East Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East, and writes about peace, poetry, and compassion on his substack, “Awakenings.” He has degrees in Economics, Political Science, and Philosophy, graduating with highest distinction from the Honors College of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spent 6 years working with The Telos Group, a DC-based international peacemaking nonprofit, and is now pursuing an Mdiv at Yale Divinity School.
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Anna Stamborski is a national organizer and trainer for CrossRoads Antiracism, former Director for Faith and Prejudice, and former public educator. She is a certified Restorative Justice educator, licensed mediator, Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Inventory Development, and trained in ethnography and qualitative research. Anna holds a Master of Divinity and certificate in Black Church Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary and degrees in Education and Spanish (BS) from the University of Wisconsin.
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Drew J. Strait is a dad, pastor theologian, speaker, and professor. His writing and teaching focuses on political idolatry and peacemaking in early Christianity. Strait is a popular speaker on how faith communities can challenge Christian nationalism, violent extremism, and Christian supremacy with strategic nonviolence.