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Keynote Speaker

Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, M.Div

Elom was born in Atlanta, raised in Accra and Harare, and has worked in Ramallah, Amman, and Philadelphia. He has always been enchanted by places and the stories they contain. He is an opinion writer for Sojourners. 

Elom graduated from Harvard Divinity School in May 2025. While at Harvard Divinity, he focused on the intersections of lived religion and political culture. His interests revolve around the prophetic imagination, popular resistance to Empire, and global Black emancipatory politics. Having worked in international education, finance, tech, and international development, Elom strives to bring these seemingly disparate worlds into the conversations about faith and social justice.

Preachers

Workshop Leaders

History of the U.S. Student Christian Movement

Rev. Dr. Luther Felder, Campus Pastor, Paine College

Young Organizers in the Lead

Cate Tedford, M.Div. candidate, Candler Theological Seminary

Skill Building Workshops

Tim Franzen, American Friends Service Committee
Rev. Tammy Pallot, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta

Theologies of Peace and War

Dr. Mark Douglas, Professor of Christian Ethics and Director of the Master of Theology Degree, Columbia Theological Seminary

Bible Study

Dr. Raj Nadella, Samuel A. Cartledge Associate Professor of New Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary

Dr. Raj Nadella's research interests include postcolonial biblical interpretation, migration and New Testament perspectives on economic justice and their implications for the Church and society. Nadella is the author of Dialogue Not Dogma: Many Voices in the Gospel of Luke (Bloomsbury, 2011), co-editor of Christianity and the Law of Migration (Routledge, 2021) and co-author of Postcolonialism and the Bible (forthcoming). He is currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of the Bible, Race and Diaspora. Nadella serves on the editorial boards of Currents in Biblical Research, The Society of Biblical Literature’s Review of Biblical Literature, Semeia Studies and Oxford Bibliographies Online: Biblical Studies. He has written for publications such as Working Preacher, The Christian Century, On Scripture @ The Huffington Post and Sojourners. 


Bishop Kevin Strickland, Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America

The Rev. Dr. Kevin L. Strickland was elected Bishop of the Southeastern Synod on June 2, 2019 and re-elected on May 29, 2025 to serve another six-year term. With a heart for justice and advocacy ministry, Bishop Strickland has served on various local and national non-profit boards. He currently serves a member of the ELCA Conference of Bishops and on the boards of Georgia Interfaith Public Policy Council, Inspiritus, Middle East Ready Bench of the ELCA, Ecumenical and Interreligious Committee of the ELCA, Quality of Call Initiative, First Call Process, Immigration Ready Bench of the ELCA, ELCA Church Council,1517 Media, Newberry College, NovusWay, Region Nine Council, James R. Crumley Region Nine Archives, Day 1 Advisory Council, and many others. Bishop Strickland has been published in several worship and preaching journals and books. In April of 2021, he was inducted into Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. College of Ministers.