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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JAIME HARRIS
Peacemaker & Consultant | Indonesia
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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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MATTHEW BROWN
Information Technology Specialist
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ANTHONY KHAIR
Justice Advocate & Decolonial Theologian | Palestine
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RAMY TALEB
Peacebuilding Practitioner and Trainer & Co-Founding Director of Al Shabiba Risala | Lebanon
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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Jonny Rashid serves as pastor for West Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship. He serves on Mennonite Action national team and is on the steering committee for the Philadelphia Coalition for Affordable Communities and the Philadelphia Alliance for Peace and Justice for Palestinians. He has a Masters of Divinity from Palmer Theological Seminary and is enrolled in Eastern Mennonite Seminary's Doctor of Ministry program in Peacemaking and Social Change. He writes for Anabaptist World, wrote Jesus Takes A Side, and writes at jonnyrashid.substack.com.
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Abbey Shepard has had various roles in Human Resources, mainly focused on recruiting, onboarding, and developing students and early career individuals. She has degrees in Political Science and Journalism, graduating the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently lives in Washington DC, where she practices peace building through her local church, nonprofits, and community.
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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.