Dallas is the creator of “The Chosen,” a multi-season series about the life of Christ. It’s the largest crowd-funded media project of all time. He first produced the independent feature Hometown Legend at the age of 25 and shepherded it to distribution by Warner Brothers. In the nearly 20 years since, he has directed and produced over a dozen feature and short films for companies such as Universal, Lionsgate, Pureflix, Hallmark Channel, and Amazon. Dallas is the son of celebrated Left Behind author Jerry Jenkins.

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Jon was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and is proud to call Portland home. He has been married for 20 years and has two boys.Jon received a BA in Bible and Theology at Multnomah University. After working overseas in Christian ministry and then serving for a year as a pastor, Jon stepped into the marketplace to explore digital communication. He started two digital communication companies and worked with clients ranging from Google and P&G to Silicon Valley start-ups and nonprofits. In 2009, Jon’s first company, Epipheo, introduced the business world to “explainer videos.” Jon has a long history of creating shareable videos that spread messages organically on the internet.In early 2016, Jon ended his participation in former business ventures to work exclusively on BibleProject, which he has helped grow over 100 employees and reach 200 million people.

Jillian is a singer-songwriter who resides in Nashville with her husband, Will Chapman, drummer for indie rock band Colony House, and their daughter, Willow Faye. Her latest album “Meadow” features music ready-made for rest, solitude, and comfort. The new collection of songs lovingly point to healing and hope in the midst of suffering and pain, anchored by a God who brings peace that passes all understanding. Her musically-inclined parents inspired all four of their children, including Jillian and her twin brother, to write and play music. When she picked up a guitar for the first time as a teenager, she felt like writing songs was made for her. But it was really during college, at Baylor University, when she began capturing the attention of a broader audience with her thoughtful lyrics and charming voice as she traveled across her home state of Texas singing her own songs. Jillian is also an ardent practitioner of collaboration, including a series of songs with past Gathering musician Ellie Holcomb.

Scott is the Founder & CEO of charity:water. He spent almost 10 years as a nightclub promoter in New York City before leaving to volunteer on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia in West Africa as a volunteer photojournalist. Returning home to New York two years later, he founded the nonprofit organization charity: water in 2006. Turning his full attention to the global water crisis and the world’s 785 million people without clean water to drink, he created public installations and innovative online fundraising platforms to spread international awareness of the issue. In 14 years, with the help of more than 1 million donors worldwide, charity: water has raised over $557 million and funded 64,999 water projects in 29 countries. When completed, those projects will provide more than 12.7 million people with clean, safe drinking water. Scott has been recognized on Fortune magazine’s list of 40 Under 40, Forbes’ Impact 30, and Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, where he earned the #10 spot. He is currently a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and author of the New York Times Bestselling book Thirst. Scott and his wife Viktoria have two children, Jackson and Emma.

Rachael is an attorney, author, advocate, and educator who is recognized as a leading voice on the topic of sexual abuse. Possessing a unique blend of professional skills, personal experiences, and dynamic communication style, she is a sought-after media commentator, speaker, and consultant. Her grasp of legal issues, corporate ethics, effective leadership strategies, and investigative practices are coupled with a trauma-informed, deeply compassionate understanding of the realities facing survivors of sexual abuse and their path toward healing. Bridging the gap between survivors and the society and institutions that may have failed them, Denhollander forces audiences to ask the question, “What is a girl or boy worth?” while equipping them with the tools to answer, “Everything.”

Mako is a leading contemporary artist, writer, and speaker who is recognized worldwide as a cultural shaper. He was appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Council on the Arts from 2003-2009, serving as an advocate on the arts and advising governmental policies. In 2014, the American Academy of Religion named Mako as its "Religion and the Arts" award recipient. Mako founded the International Arts Movement in 1992 and the Fujimura Institute in 2011. He just published Art + Faith: A Theology of Making. His books Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture and Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life have won numerous awards. In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, Crossway Publishing commissioned and published Four Holy Gospels, featuring Mako’s illuminations of the sacred texts which was featured at the inaugural exhibit at the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC. Mako’s art has been featured widely in galleries and museums around the world, from The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo to the Tikotin Museum in Israel to the Belvedere Museum in Vienna.

Mark became the fifth President of Fuller Theological Seminary in 2013, after four years as Fuller’s Lloyd John Ogilvie Associate Professor of Preaching and Director of the Ogilvie Institute of Preaching. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA), he served in pastoral roles for 30 years prior to coming to Fuller, most recently as Senior Pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California, for 16 years. He also has served as Co-Founder of the Christian International Scholarship Foundation (now ScholarLeaders International), Chair of John Stott Ministries, Senior Fellow of International Justice Mission, and in a number of other roles of service. He holds an MDiv from Fuller and a PhD in Theology from Cambridge University. Mark is committed to strengthening the intersection of the academy, church, and culture, and brings to his presidency a deep desire to enact justice, love, and grace on both a global and local level. He wrote Called: The Crisis and Promise of Following Jesus Today; The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus; and The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God’s Call to Justice. Most recently he served as editor for the book Still Evangelical? Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning, a collection of essays on the meaning of evangelicalism in a contentious era.

Shannon is the anchor of Fox News @ Night and Chief Legal Correspondent for the Fox News Channel. She's covered numerous political campaigns, landmark Supreme Court decisions, and Washington scandals. Before entering the world of media, she was a lawyer specializing in race discrimination and sexual harassment cases. Shannon is a Honors graduate of the Florida State University College of Law and obtained her B.S. in Business Management magna cum laude from Liberty University. Her book The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today was published in March. She and her husband, Sheldon, enjoy traveling and fly fishing, and they're a tad obsessive about college football.

Cherie is the President of the Trinity Forum. She previously served in the White House as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Policy and Projects for First Lady Laura Bush; as Senior Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, advising the Leader on domestic social issues and serving as liaison and outreach director to outside groups; and as Senior Counselor to the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cherie holds a BA magna cum laude in government from Harvard University and a post-graduate diploma in literature from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. She serves on the board of Faith and Law and as a Senior Fellow of Cardus.

Chuck is the Founder of Courageous Love, a program that takes participants through life-changing moments of racial healing. Through his passion for justice and racial reconciliation, Chuck has transformed Courageous Love from a congregational training into a national movement with hub cities emerging throughout the country. His leadership through Courageous Love has inspired and mobilized thousands from diverse backgrounds around the nation and even the world. In addition to leading Courageous Love, Chuck teaches and consults for churches and organizations around the country on a variety of topics related to race relations and racial justice. For 13 years, Chuck has served as a teaching pastor at one of the largest churches in America, Crossroads Church based in Cincinnati. Prior to being a pastor, Chuck spent nine years in the corporate world at Procter & Gamble. He earned his bachelor’s in Business Administration at Duquesne University. Chuck is married with three children and calls Cincinnati home.

David M. Bailey is a public theologian and culture-maker focused on building reconciling communities. David is the founder and CEO of Arrabon an organization that cultivates reconciling communities by supporting and guiding Christian leaders and communities as they pursue reconciliation in a diverse and divided world. He is also the co-author of the Race, Class, and the Kingdom of God Study Series; the executive producer of the documentary 11am: Hope for America’s Most Segregated Hour and the Urban Doxology Project; And is rooted at East End Fellowship serving on the preaching team. David's greatest honor in life is to be married to his wonderful wife, Joy.

David founded Axis in 2007 and is the CEO. Axis supports and is the "culture translator" for 400,000 parents and caring adults who disciple 800,000 teens in their home and another 2,300,000 teens in classrooms, churches, and on sport teams. Check out the weekly Culture Translator email at axis.org/culture-translator.

Frank Chen is an operating partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz where he works on the Talent x Opportunity Initiative (TxO), which aims to identify cultural geniuses and help them build enduring, scalable, and large businesses around their cultural breakthroughs. Prior to TxO, Frank ran the deal and research team at the firm, and continues to be responsible for finding and evaluating great entrepreneurs and companies, and building a comprehensive knowledge base of trends, technologies, products, and people along the way.

Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, Frank was the Vice President of Strategy for HP Software, where he helped the company understand and act on changes resulting from the rapid enterprise adoption of virtualization technologies across servers, network and storage. Frank joined HP Software through its acquisition of Opsware, where he was the vice president of Products and User Experience for a broad set of Opsware’s data center automation products.

Frank joined Opsware when it was Loudcloud, a managed services provider. At Loudcloud, Frank served as the director of Product & Services. Frank spent his first year at Loudcloud as the Western Region deployment director, where he oversaw the teams that architected, deployed and managed all of Loudcloud’s West Coast customers including Ford Motor Company, Fox Sports, Fandango, Blockbuster and many others.

Before Loudcloud, Frank was the vice president of Product Development at Respond.com and was previously the director of Product Management at Netscape Communications. Earlier in his career, Frank also held various engineering, product management and developer relations roles at GO Corporation, Oracle, Apple and IBM.

Frank holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University where he graduated with distinction and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Jake is a professional artist and certified Master Penman in Denver, Colorado. The youngest in history among eight existing Masters today, Jake received his Master Penman certificate from the International Association of Master Penman, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting (IAMPETH) in 2011. He works across numerous mediums in art and calligraphy, and is most well-known for his use of traditional calligraphic flourishing and hand lettering in the context of his fine art.

Josh Good directs the Aspen Institute's Religion & Society Program, an initiative founded in 2009 to help journalists, clerics, policy experts, and civic leaders advance the full promise of religious pluralism. Through two-day forums and a podcast, its Faith Angle Forum supports a network of journalists who strengthen reporting and commentary on how religious believers, religious convictions, and moral arguments affect American politics and public life. A Philanthropy & Religion program helps funders connect with leading religion scholars and public intellectuals, and a Religion Fellows program empowers leaders to tackle abiding challenges--including around racial justice. Josh previously directed the Kern Family Foundation’s Faith, Work, and Economics Program and, prior to that, managed the American Enterprise Institute’s outreach program to faculty and student leaders at Christian colleges. He holds a B.A. in history from Covenant College and a master’s degree in Christianity and Culture from Harvard University, and his work has been published by Routledge Press and in The Hill, National Review, The Weekly Standard, World Magazine, The Federalist, and The American.

For over 25 years, Julie has led organizations and shaped communication strategies. After earning a journalism degree from Boston University, she landed her dream job at NBC the same week she became a follower of Christ through Redeemer Presbyterian Church in NYC. She then spent 11 years helping to start with Priority Associates, a CRU ministry to young professionals in NYC and Orlando. Julie later served as VP of Communication and Programming at Generous Giving. Today, as President of Women Doing Well, she lives out her passion for women, leadership, and “cultivating change.” She lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, Gary, and their daughter, Ella.

Kara is the Executive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute (FYI) and Chief of Leadership Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary. The mission of FYI is to equip diverse leaders and parents so faithful young people can change our world. Named by Christianity Today as one of “50 Women to Watch,” Kara completed her PhD in Practical Theology from Fuller with a focus on Pastoral Role Expectations in 2000, an MDiv from Bethel Theological Seminary in 1994, and a BA degree with Honors from Stanford University in 1991. In addition to her roles at Fuller, Kara currently serves as a Youth and Family Strategist for Orange, and volunteers in student ministries at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena.

Karen is the Director of the Edmiston Center for the Study of the Bible and Ethnicity at Reformed Theological Seminary in Atlanta. She is also the Robert Cannada Fellow for World Christianity. Karen is passionate about theology, human rights, and global religious freedom. Because of her background in the arts, Karen has been seen in classrooms and at conferences, on television, on film and onstage. She has headlined at the Kennedy Center and the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis. For eight years, she hosted a morning radio program in the Pacific Northwest. Since 2006, Karen has collaborated with the Swiss-based organization International Christian Response meeting around the concerns of the persecuted Church. She holds a Master of Arts in Religion from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. She is a PhD candidate in Virtue Ethics at the Oxford Center for Mission Studies in Oxford, England.

Lisa is the President and Founder of Urban Strategies, an organization with a mission to tool, connect, and resource community and faith-based organizations focused on helping their neighbors flourish. Together with more than 200 teammates and countless partners across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Central America, Urban Strategies has implemented collective impact initiatives in multiple areas including family strengthening, health and well-being, maternal health and the first 1000 days of child’s life, youth development, and residential services for homeless children and youth. Prior to founding Urban Strategies, Lisa served in leadership roles with Bank of America as well as in the White House Office for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President George W. Bush.

Louise is the Director of the Center for Research in Science at Azusa Pacific University, where she also serves as Assistant Dean at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and an Honors College Faculty Fellow who teaches and researches in environmental stewardship and sustainability. Louise’s interest in environmental science originated from her research on the degradation of pesticides on cellulosic materials. She holds two U.S. patents on such technologies. She received her BS at Cornell University and her PhD at the University of California, Davis. Louise believes education is vital to transformative understanding that can result in solutions for contemporary issues such as global climate change. In and outside of the classroom, she strives to equip students in cultivating a global Christian worldview through learning and appreciating science. As an inducted Fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation, Louise has received multiple grants, including the Templeton Religion Trust Scholarship & Christianity in Oxford program and the National Science Foundation S-STEM grant, totaling over $800,000.

Mark is a Senior Strategist for Fuller Seminary’s Max De Pree Center for Leadership, where he focuses on the spiritual development and thriving of leaders. He is the principal writer of the daily devotional, Life for Leaders, and the founder of the De Pree Center’s Flourishing in the Third Third of Life Initiative. Previously, Mark was the Executive Director of the De Pree Center, the lead pastor of a church in Southern California, and the Senior Director of Laity Lodge in Texas. He has written eight books, dozens of articles, and over 2,500 devotions that help people discover the difference God makes in their daily life and leadership. You can find some of his most popular writings here. With a PhD in New Testament from Harvard, Mark teaches at Fuller, most recently in his DMin cohort on “Faith, Work, Economics, and Vocation.” Mark is married to Linda, a marriage and family counselor, spiritual director, and executive coach. Their two grown children are educators on the high school and college level.

Rachel is the Director of Outreach for Give Her Wings, a nonprofit helping bridge the gap between churches and domestic abuse victims. With a degree in counseling and a passion for business books, she networks with like-minded ministries, builds relationships with donors, and communicates on behalf of the organization. In addition, Rachel facilitates and develops curriculum for Give Her Wings Academy, an online domestic abuse education program for Christian people-helpers. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, Rachel and her three children enjoy laughing together and working their way through book series. In her free time, Rachel enjoys the performing arts as a welcome refreshment in the midst of heavy topics.

Samantha is Founder and Managing Member of Kilpatrick Law Group, where she represents survivors of abuse and also advises and trains faith-based organizations on abuse prevention, institutional response, and policy. An attorney with over 24 years of experience in the practice of law, Samantha is a former prosecutor with experience in the areas of domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual assault crimes. Samantha is a graduate of Meredith College and the University of North Carolina School of Law. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in Christian Marriage, Family, and Individual Counseling from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Samantha served on the SBC ChurchCares team where she contributed to the Caring Well curriculum. She also presented and served as a panelist for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s Caring Well Conference in 2019.

Steve is the President and Co-Founder of Village Schools International, a nonprofit that shares the Gospel in Africa through education by engaging people in villages to construct secondary schools that are financially sustainable, locally-run, and offering an outstanding education with a Christian witness.

Steve has served for over three decades as a missionary in Africa, first as a teacher, and then as an adviser to his former students as they built primary and secondary schools, a teacher training college, a theological college, churches, medical clinics, and various community development projects in the former Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) and now in Tanzania. Steve often speaks at colleges, churches, and schools in the United States and in Tanzania. He guest lectures on “The Spontaneous Multiplication of Churches” and “Christian Community Development” for the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course from the US Center for World Missions. He helped his former students found Village Schools Tanzania, and then helped groups of local Christians to found Village Schools Malawi, Village Schools Zambia, and Village Schools Uganda. Steve and his wife Susan raised two sons, now grown, in a beautiful village in the mountains of central Tanzania.

Tommy is the CEO of Urban Youth Workers Institute and leads the organization to power urban youth workers so that urban youth have the leaders and role models they need to live transformed lives by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is also a founder and former Executive Director of Solidarity, a nonprofit organization that strengthens urban communities. Tommy planted a church in 2014 called One Life City Church in Fullerton, Calif.. From the streets and jails of North Orange County to the favelas of Sao Paulo to standing up for immigration reform, Tommy has experienced God’s heart for humanity and His church and is passionate about helping leaders reach this next generation. He has been married to Rachael since 2003, and they are raising four daughters and one son in Anaheim.

Victor is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the Honors Program at Baylor University, where he is also a Research Fellow at the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty. He directs the research and teaching efforts of the Collaborative’s Global Hunger and Migration Project which seeks to understand and address the Central American child and family migration crisis. A widely-published scholar whose research has appeared in leading academic journals and monographs, Victor is also the co-author of the illustrated children’s book A Journey Toward Hope, which tells the story of four migrant children from Central America who seek asylum in the United States. Victor serves on the board of directors of the Ekklesia Project and is past President of the Board of World Hunger Relief. He graduated with honors from Baylor and earned a PhD in political science from the University of Notre Dame University. Victor lives in Waco, Tex., with his wife and two teenage daughters. They are active members of DaySpring Baptist Church where Victor serves as a children’s Sunday School teacher.

Viktoria is the Co-Founder of charity: water, a New York-based nonprofit bringing clean water to people in developing countries. At age nine, Viktoria immigrated from Russia to America with her parents — two young artists who fled the oppression of the communist regime and longed for the freedom of America. Viktoria learned English in public school and went on to study graphic design at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She began her career at a small advertising agency in Manhattan, and for two years, excitedly worked on advertising campaigns for Honda, Coke, American Express, and many other well-known brands. But eventually, she grew disenchanted with the world of advertising and craved more meaningful work. One summer, a friend introduced her to an ex-nightclub promoter turned charity founder, Scott Harrison, who was launching a tiny startup aimed at disrupting the nonprofit industry. The two of them began working on charity: water from his kitchen table.

Within a few months of meeting Scott, she quit her advertising job and to become the second employee at charity: water. Over the next nine years, she served as the organization’s Creative Director and Co-Founder alongside her husband Scott. She’s currently growing her own venture, Mission Critical, which helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs find brand clarity and boldly tell their stories. She works primarily with humanitarian nonprofits to create marketing and brand strategies that help them build awareness and increase fundraising capacity.

Anne is the Editor-in-Chief of Comment Magazine and the host of Breaking Ground, a collaborative web commons created in 2020 to inspire a dynamic cross-section of thinkers and practitioners to respond to the major crises of the year with wisdom, hope, and courage. She is the host of The Whole Person Revolution podcast and the author of The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Renewing our Social and Moral Landscape, published in 2019. Previously, Anne directed The Philanthropy Roundtable‘s Character Initiative, a program seeking to help American foundations and business leaders strengthen “the middle ring” of morally formative institutions. She is a Fellow with the Urban Reform Institute and a Senior Fellow with The Trinity Forum. Anne also previously worked with Laity Lodge and the H.E. Butt Family Foundation in Texas, and before that she worked at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, World Affairs Journal and The New York Times. She holds a master’s degree from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and international relations from Wheaton College. Anne serves as a trustee for the Center for Public Justice, Nyack College, the Hyde Park Institute and the Colangelo Carpenter Innovation Center. She has published widely, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and Philanthropy Magazine.

David is a senior editor at The Dispatch and a columnist for Time. A graduate of Harvard Law School, David is a former senior writer for National Review and a former senior fellow at the National Review Institute. He is a former constitutional litigator and a past president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. David is a New York Times bestselling author, and his most recent book, Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation, was released last September. David is a former major in the United States Army Reserve and is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he was awarded the Bronze Star.

Mike is Director of Yellow at Snap Inc. (maker of the social media app Snapchat), where he invests in and supports early stage founders in launching and scaling their businesses. Prior to Snap, Mike helped build some of the largest and fastest growing digital media brands as Chief Product Officer at mitú, a Latinx focused digital media company he helped grow to over 600M monthly content views, and Head of Product at Upworthy, widely considered the fastest growing media company. Mike was also founder of Deep Fried Manna, a developer of Christian themed apps for kids. Outside of work, Mike is a husband, father of three, a member of Tapestry LA church, serves on the board of Defy Ventures, and is a perennially frustrated Philadelphia sports fan.

Myal is the President and CEO of World Relief. He has a deep desire to see churches worldwide equipped, empowered, and engaged in meeting the needs of vulnerable families in their communities. This passion was developed and refined during the 14 years he spent serving with World Relief. During his time at World Relief, he has played numerous roles, including spending eight years in Rwanda. He has previous experience working with the U.S. Congress for two members of the House of Representatives. He holds a BS in finance from Lehigh University, an MA from Fuller Theological Seminary in global leadership. He and his wife Sharon have three children: James, Micah, and Ikamba.

Sam served as Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom from February 1, 2018 to January 20, 2021. He served as Governor of Kansas from 2011 to 2018. Prior to that he represented his home state in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives. While a member of the Senate, he worked actively on the issue of religious freedom in multiple countries and was a key sponsor of the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998. Prior to his public service, Ambassador Brownback practiced law and taught agricultural law at Kansas State University. He earned a B.S. from Kansas State University and a J.D. from the University of Kansas. He and his wife Mary have five children and six grandchildren.

Amanda is an author, speaker, and the lead creator of supplemental content for “The Chosen” television series about the life of Jesus Christ and His disciples.