Rev. Adam Russell Taylor is president of Sojourners and author of A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community.
Taylor previously led the Faith Initiative at the World Bank Group and served as the vice president in charge of Advocacy at World Vision U.S. and the senior political director at Sojourners. He has also served as the executive director of Global Justice, an organization that educates and mobilizes students around global human rights and economic justice.
He was selected for the 2009/2010 class of White House Fellows and served in the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs and Public Engagement. Taylor is a graduate of Emory University, the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology. Taylor also serves on the Independent Sector Board, the Global Advisory Board of Tearfund UK, and is a member of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellowship.
Taylor is ordained in the American Baptist Church and the Progressive National Baptist Convention and serves in ministry at the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va.
Author activist, Dr. Timmon Milne Wallis is Executive Director of NuclearBan.US. He completed the second edition of his book, Warheads to Windmills, in December, 2023. CFPA has supported Timmon's antinuclear, pro-planet campaign since he first published the book in 2019. CFPA was pleased to have Timmon as a panelist for its July, 2023 No Wars, No Warming Webinar, "Ending Climate and Nuclear Crises for the Next Generations".
Long-time peace and justice advocate, Erica DeKranes, is the former Assistant Director of CFPA, a current member of CFPA's Board of Directors, and Councilwoman in Allentown Borough (NJ).
Kim Fraczek is the Director of the Sane Energy Project, spearheading several successful campaigns in New York against toxic gas projects proposed by some of the world's largest energy corporations. Most notably, in 2023, Sane Energy achieved a significant victory by halting the construction of the North Brooklyn pipeline, which would have impacted several socioeconomically disadvantaged frontline communities. Under Kim's leadership, Sane Energy is now at the forefront of developing Thermal Energy Networks in New York.
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Katrina vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation. She served as editor of the magazine from 1995 to 2019. She currently writes a weekly column for The Washington Post and is a commentator on U.S. and international politics for MSNBC, CNN, and PBS. Vanden Heuvel is the author of The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers.
She has been recognized for her journalism and public service by many progressive organizations. During her tenure, The Nation’s journalism has been recognized for excellence by the National Magazine Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Maggie Awards, GLAAD, and the National Association of Black Journalists, among others. In addition to the Quincy Institute, she also serves on the boards of the Progressive Caucus Center, the Institute for Policy Studies, the Roosevelt Institute, Four Freedoms Park Conservancy, the Sidney Hillman Media Foundation, Inequality Media, the Osborne Association, and Research to Prevent Blindness.
She is President of the American Committee for US-Russian Accord (ACURA).
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