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Sarahi Bravo

Sarahi Bravo is a Mexican-American immigrant who lives in Sunnyside, Washington. Sarahi worked at Transformation Yakima Valley for 6 years. She is currently a Business Development Officer at Lower Valley Credit Union connecting Spanish speaking families with services.

Carol Bremer-Bennett

Carol Bremer-Bennett is World Renew's Director of U.S. operations. Bremer-Bennett is an educator by training, with an M.A. in educational leadership from Western New Mexico University in Gallup. She has served on the Calvin College Board of Trustees and served as a deacon. Bremer-Bennett's  early relationships were formed by her childhood in West Michigan when she was adopted as an infant by Paul and Jackie Bremer. After graduating from Calvin College, she headed to New Mexico to explore her Navajo heritage. She found her place when a Navajo leader ceremonially adopted her as his sister. She and husband Theo Bremer-Bennett have three children of Navajo descent and three of Ethiopian descent.

Chloe Breyer

Joining the Interfaith Center of New York (ICNY) in 2007 as Executive Director, Chloe has furthered ICNY’s mission to bring together grassroots religious leaders with civic officials to address the city’s most pressing concerns. An Episcopal Priest in the Diocese of New York Chloe, Breyer founded and directed the Cathedral Forums on Religion and Public Life at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine from 2000-2003. Following 9/11/2001, she worked on an interfaith initiative to rebuild a mosque in Afghanistan destroyed by U.S. bombs. Chloe is the author of The Close: A Young Woman’s First Year at Seminary (Basic Books 2000) with chapter contributions to What Can One Person Do? Faith to Heal a Broken World (Church Publishing 2005) and Challenging the Christian Right From the Heart of the Gospel (Beacon Press 2006).

Alyssa Broadbent

Alyssa is a fourth year student at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC, majoring in History with a concentration in Sociology. She is passionate about historical injustices and their connections to present social justice issues, and strives to learn from the experiences and insights of others. Alyssa is from Ladner, BC, but is spending her last semester at TWU’s Laurentian Leadership Centre, a live-in extension program located in the heart of Ottawa. During this time, she will be interning with the Centre for Public Dialogue.

Henry Brouwer

Dr. Henry Brouwer, retired Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science at Redeemer University College, is the Eastern Canada Regional Climate Witness Project of the CRCNA.

Daniel Brown

Daniel Brown is pastor at John Calvin Christian Reformed Church in Truro, Nova Scotia. He grew up in the Ottawa valley and has studied at Algonquin College, Carleton University, and Calvin Theological Seminary. His passion for public dialogue stems from a lifelong relationship with the political process and Kuyper's reminder that "every square inch" includes engaging government from the perspective of faith. Dan is married to Nathalie, and has four children. They find as many excuses as they can to scramble along the rocks of Peggy's Cove. He currently maintains a blog at http://www.dan-brown.ca/ and moderates a Facebook group for justice themes in the Christian Reformed Church which can be found at https://www.facebook.com/groups/justiceleaguecrcna/. Follow him on Twitter at @danielgtbrown. 

Heather Buisman

Heather Buisman is a student at the University of Ottawa, studying Political Science and Public Administration. She is currently an intern for a Member of Parliament and continues to be involved in social affairs on a variety of different levels.

Naomi Bula

Naomi Bula works as Director of Marketing and Communications for World Renew Canada. Previously, she has been a writer, editor, and radio host for various non-profit organizations in Canada and Taiwan. In her free time, she volunteers for Micah House, a refugee claimant home in Hamilton, Ontario. She and her husband live part-time on his family farm in Zambia and love spending time with their three children and two grandchildren.

Gary Burge

Rev. Dr. Gary Burge is Visiting Professor of New Testament Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He earned his M.Div. from Fuller Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. from King’s College of Aberdeen University.  He served as professor of New Testament at Wheaton College for twenty-five years, and is the author of a number of books and commentaries, including John: The NIV Application Commentary (Zondervan, 2000), Jesus and the Land: The New Testament Challenge to “Holy Land” Theology (Baker, 2010) and Whose Land? Whose Promise?: What Christians Are Not Being Told about Israel and the Palestinians (Pilgrim Press, 2003, 2013).

 

Jennifer Burnett

Jenn has ministered in Ontario, Australia and Kelowna in a variety of contexts. She has her doctorate of Ministry in Leadership and Global Perspectives and is passionate about creating safe space for people to bring their authentic selves into community where they can encounter and be transformed by the living God. You can find her personal website here https://www.invitationalvulnerability.com She is committed to drawing the gold out of people and seeing them empowered by the Holy Spirit to bear hope, love and joy to a hurting and lonely world. She believes that we can love each other well by imitating Christ's example of servanthood. Jenn loves Jesus, social justice, laughter, rugby and camping. When not pastoring (and sometimes while pastoring) Jenn is mom to four fabulous kids and wife to one terrific husband. 

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