Retired Bishop, San Francisco Area, California-Nevada Annual Conference, The United Methodist Church

Kenneth B. Smith Professor of Public Ministry; Associate Professor of American Religious History and Culture, Chicago Theological Seminary

Former District Superintendent, Crossroads District, Detroit Conference of The United Methodist Church; Current Pastor at Halsey UMC / South Mundy UMC, Detroit Conference of The United Methodist Church

Pastor, St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church

Dean of the Divinity School; the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt Divinity School

Associate Professor of Ministry, Columbia Theological Seminary; Presiding Elder, Atlanta District, Georgia Conference, African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church

Bishop, Indiana Conference, The United Methodist Church

Presiding Elder, North District, Chicago Conference, African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church

Former Chaplain, Presbyterian Homes, Evanston, Illinois; Current Director of Programs for Reproductive Justice and Sexuality Education at the Religious Institute

Gerald L. Schlessman Chair in Methodist Studies; Assistant Professor of Theology, Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado; Provisional Elder in The United Methodist Church appointed to the extension ministry "Strengthening the Black Church for the 21st Century" as a member of the Academy of Interns

Former District Superintendent, Northern Illinois Conference, The United Methodist Church

Former Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students; Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Current Director of the Center for Music and Worship in the Black Church Experience; Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, and current Associate General Secretary at Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church

Executive Director, Youth Hope-Builders Academy; Professor Emerita of Christian Education, Interdenominational Theological Center