RASOOL BERRY
Podcast Host, Writer/Editor, Community Partner

Berry serves as a teaching pastor at The Bridge Church in Brooklyn, New York. He is also the Director of Partnerships & Content Development at Our Daily Bread Ministries and host of the Where Ya From? podcast.

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CAREY LATIMORE
Author, Professor, Associate Pastor

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Latimore served as an associate professor and co-director of the African American Studies program at Trinity University. He’s also the author of Unshakable Faith and served as an associate pastor for a church in San Antonio.

JAN SPIVEY GILCHRIST
Fine Artist, Author, Mentor

Gilchrist is an award-winning illustrator of some 100 books. She’s also the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King Book Awards, and the Zora Neale Hurston Award the highest honor given by the National Association of Black Storytellers.

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AMBASSADOR SUZAN JOHNSON COOK
Author, Pastor, Former US Presidential Advisor

Cook served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom under President Barack Obama. She was also a distinguished fellow of the Religious Freedom Institute and is the author of Rhythms of Rest.

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DEBBYE TURNER BELL
Author, Minister, Business Leader, Journalist

Miss America 1990, Bell has reported for and contributed to numerous news shows and traveled as a motivational speaker for more than two decades. Her book, Courageous Faith, was published in 2021.

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NOEL HUTCHINSON
Pastor, Writer, Missions Director

Hutchinson is a graduate of United Theological Seminary, Executive Director of Missions for the Progressive National Baptist Convention, and writer for Our Daily Bread special editions, including On the Shoulders of Giants.

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EKEMINI UWAN
Theologian, Writer

Uwan is a public theologian whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Huffington Post Black Voices, Christianity Today, and Our Daily Bread.

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VICTORIA SAUNDERS MCAFEE
Author, Teacher, Missionary

McAfee is author of Blessed Is She: The Transforming Prayer Journeys of 30 African American Women, and other titles for women and families.

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ROSLYN YILPET
Writer

From Detroit, Michigan, Yiplet is a freelance writer and is also the director of Open Doors for Special Learners in Jos, Nigeria, where she has served as a missionary for 40 years.

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