Conference Directors
Lisa Sharon Harper, is the Executive Director of NY Faith and Justice, a fellowship of Christian churches, organizations and individuals dedicated to following Christ, uniting the church and ending poverty. She is a freelance writer, award-winning playwright, poet, public speaker and consultant who specializes in ethnic reconciliation and human rights.
Former Director of Ethnic Reconciliation for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship--Southern California, Lisa earned an MA degree in Human Rights, with a concentration in Religion and The Media, from Columbia University in New York City, and an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) degree in Playwriting from the University of Southern California.
Rev. Dr. Peter Goodwin Heltzel, Assistant Professor of Theology, New York Theological Seminary and ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), is part of a new generation of evangelicals committed to social justice. He serves as an Assisting Minister at Tercera Iglesia Christiana.
His forthcoming book from Yale University Press, Lion on the Loose: Jesus, Evangelicals and American Politics, studies the history and current emergence of prophetic evangelicals. A graduate of Wheaton College, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, and Boston University, he is among the leading evangelical theologians of his generation.
