Lawrence T. Brown, PhD is the proud grandson of Mississippi and Arkansas Delta sharecroppers and preachers. From 2010 to 2019, Lawrence worked at Morgan State University in the School of Community Health and Policy as a post-doctoral fellow, an assistant professor, and an associate professor. His research examined the impact of historical trauma on community health.
In June 2018, he was honored by OSI Baltimore with the Bold Thinker award for sparking critical discourse regarding Baltimore’s racial segregation. In September 2018, he was named #61 in The Root 100—an annual list of the most influential African Americans ages 25 to 45.
In January 2020, Lawrence became the Director of the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps program in the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. His first book The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space In America will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in January of 2021. Lawrence Brown, PhD is a currently a
visiting Associate Professor Department of Population Health Sciences University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
In June 2018, he was honored by OSI Baltimore with the Bold Thinker award for sparking critical discourse regarding Baltimore’s racial segregation. In September 2018, he was named #61 in The Root 100—an annual list of the most influential African Americans ages 25 to 45.
In January 2020, Lawrence became the Director of the County Health Rankings and Roadmaps program in the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. His first book The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space In America will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in January of 2021. Lawrence Brown, PhD is a currently a
visiting Associate Professor Department of Population Health Sciences University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Rev. Natosha Reid Rice is the Associate General Counsel for Real Estate and Finance at Habitat for Humanity International. She also founded Fresh Rain for Life Ministries and is the Minister for Public Life at All Saints’ Episcopal Church. Natosha received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A. in Government with honors from Harvard/Radcliffe College.
Natosha is passionate about providing a voice to the voiceless and opportunities to communities that have been historically disadvantaged. She served for 11 years as the Associate Pastor for Women’s Ministries at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia and she currently serves on the boards of the global Harvard Alumni Association as an Elected Director, the Atlanta Community Foodbank, the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, Invest Atlanta’s Atlanta Emerging Markets, Inc. and the Advisory Board of the Harvard Debate Council.
She has been actively involved in efforts to pass legislation and policies to protect victims of human sex trafficking in Georgia. Her work alongside other activists and advocacy organizations, led to the passage of the Safe Harbor/Rachel’s Law in 2015 and a state Constitutional Amendment in 2016 that outlines the operation of the Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Fund and Commission.
Natosha was selected as one of Atlanta Tribune’s 50 Women of Excellence, one of Atlanta’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Atlanta Business League, the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers, the Circle of Friends Pearl Award and the Church Women United’s (Atlanta Unit) Outstanding Young Woman.
She is married to Corey Rice and they are the proud parents of Kayla, Malachi and Caleb.
Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America which recovers a forgotten history of how federal, state, and local policy explicitly segregated metropolitan areas nationwide, creating racially homogenous neighborhoods in patterns that violate the Constitution and require remediation. He is also the author of many other articles and books on race and education, which can be found on his web page at the Economic Policy Institute. Previous influential books include Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic and Educational Reform to Close the Black–White Achievement Gap
Bree Jones is the founder of Parity, an equitable development company that acquires and rehabilitates abandoned properties by the block in West Baltimore to create affordable homeownership opportunities. At the core of her work is development without displacement – she aims to revitalize distressed neighborhoods and create ownership while ensuring that legacy residents are able to participate in and benefit from reinvestment.
Prior to founding Parity, Bree had a career in finance and investments where she was an analyst at Morgan Stanley, a vice president at Point72 Asset Management, and an investment associate at the venture capital firm, Anthemis Group. These roles included deal structuring, capital raises, conducting due diligence, advanced data analysis, and deal management.
Bree has been a lifelong social justice advocate, focused primarily on economic justice, affordable housing, anti-displacement, anti-gentrification, and anti-recidivism. As an advocate, Bree played a pivotal role in the creation of a Community Benefits Agreements in New Rochelle, NY for the downtown master redevelopment plan, and advocated for community protections in local legislation and zoning.
Prior to founding Parity, Bree had a career in finance and investments where she was an analyst at Morgan Stanley, a vice president at Point72 Asset Management, and an investment associate at the venture capital firm, Anthemis Group. These roles included deal structuring, capital raises, conducting due diligence, advanced data analysis, and deal management.
Bree has been a lifelong social justice advocate, focused primarily on economic justice, affordable housing, anti-displacement, anti-gentrification, and anti-recidivism. As an advocate, Bree played a pivotal role in the creation of a Community Benefits Agreements in New Rochelle, NY for the downtown master redevelopment plan, and advocated for community protections in local legislation and zoning.
Timothy Clark Tim is the Founding Principal of Greystone Wealth Advisors LLC, an SEC Registered investment advisory firm. He has over 30 years of investment industry experience. Tim is active in his community combatting systems that disproportionally impact marginalized communities. He founded Amicus Fund to help specifically address housing barriers faced by homeless and other individuals and families in Westchester County, NY.
Tim has a passion for creating a path to stable housing for those individuals, and families, who have fallen through the social safety net. Tim is currently a Commissioner for the New Rochelle Municipal Housing Authority. He previously served as President of the Board of A-HOME, the largest provider of affordable housing in northern Westchester County, NY. He also founded, and has served at for over 10 years, the Isaiah’s Room community kitchen at New York Covenant Church in downtown New Rochelle. Isaiah’s Room provides essential items, and meals, for 75-100 individuals on weekends. Most of those served are either homeless or previously homeless.
Tim has a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University (1985) and an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University (1990).
Tim has a passion for creating a path to stable housing for those individuals, and families, who have fallen through the social safety net. Tim is currently a Commissioner for the New Rochelle Municipal Housing Authority. He previously served as President of the Board of A-HOME, the largest provider of affordable housing in northern Westchester County, NY. He also founded, and has served at for over 10 years, the Isaiah’s Room community kitchen at New York Covenant Church in downtown New Rochelle. Isaiah’s Room provides essential items, and meals, for 75-100 individuals on weekends. Most of those served are either homeless or previously homeless.
Tim has a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University (1985) and an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University (1990).
Dr. Jill Shook After serving as campus minister and coordinating teams from Berkeley to developing countries doing sustainable community development with and by the people, Jill moved from Mexico to
Pasadena to learn from Dr. John Perkins. By co-founding STARS, an afterschool program, she witnessed how segregation and the high cost of housing was a root of generational poverty,
and how affordable housing was breaking that cycle. Led to become an affordable housing advocate, she Authored/Edited Making Housing Happen: Faith Based Affordable Housing
Models, today used on campuses nationwide. Jill is Executive Director of Making Housing and Community Happen with her husband Anthony Manousos as co-founder.
Pasadena to learn from Dr. John Perkins. By co-founding STARS, an afterschool program, she witnessed how segregation and the high cost of housing was a root of generational poverty,
and how affordable housing was breaking that cycle. Led to become an affordable housing advocate, she Authored/Edited Making Housing Happen: Faith Based Affordable Housing
Models, today used on campuses nationwide. Jill is Executive Director of Making Housing and Community Happen with her husband Anthony Manousos as co-founder.
Bishop Carlton Theophilus Brown The Senior Pastor of Bethel Gospel Assembly, Inc., in Harlem, New York. Bethel Gospel Assembly is a Loving, Learning, Launching and Liberating Church with 1200 members and more than 40 auxiliaries. He was installed as Senior Pastor of Bethel in February 2000 and consecrated to the Office of Bishop in February of 2008.
Since entering full-time ministry in 1987 Bishop Brown’s ministry has opened the doors for extensive travel throughout the world. He has served in short term missions’ assignments and has been a conference and crusade speaker overseas in Azerbaijan, Russia, Cuba, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Panama, South Africa, Venezuela, Jamaica, St. Vincent, Trinidad, Barbados and Aruba, as well as around the United States. Out of his ministerial experiences he authored “Till Death Do We S.H.O.P.” which encourages the reader to take hold of a ministry approach and presentation that is making a difference in a spiritually indifferent world.
As a visionary Pastor, he founded Bethel Gospel Assembly Ministries which includes six churches in Transkei, South Africa. In addition, he has founded Bethel Gospel Global Assemblies under which seven churches have been planted in the United States. Bethel Gospel Global Assemblies also provides oversight to over 25 ministries across the United States, in the Caribbean, and South Africa. He has expanded Bethel’s short-term missions’ involvement to include medical missions to several countries around the world and has launched 3 full-time missionaries. In January 2006, he established the Bethel Gospel Assembly Trust in Northwest Province, South Africa. Bethel also dedicated its 364-acre Harmony Estates Project in South Africa which houses a church, Christian boarding school, Youth Resource Center, and skills training program. Bishop Brown also oversees a Christian School and a church plant in Jamaica, West Indies.
An avid and life-long learner, Bishop Brown received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Herbert Lehman College. He then went on to earn his Masters of Professional Studies and his Doctorate of Ministry from Alliance Theological Seminary in New York. In 2016, he was also blessed to receive an Honorary Doctorate from Alliance Theological Seminary.
He resides in New York City with his lovely wife, Pastor Lorna Iona Bell Brown. They have two adult children, Justin and Carla and son-in-law, Kinshasa Madison.
Since entering full-time ministry in 1987 Bishop Brown’s ministry has opened the doors for extensive travel throughout the world. He has served in short term missions’ assignments and has been a conference and crusade speaker overseas in Azerbaijan, Russia, Cuba, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Panama, South Africa, Venezuela, Jamaica, St. Vincent, Trinidad, Barbados and Aruba, as well as around the United States. Out of his ministerial experiences he authored “Till Death Do We S.H.O.P.” which encourages the reader to take hold of a ministry approach and presentation that is making a difference in a spiritually indifferent world.
As a visionary Pastor, he founded Bethel Gospel Assembly Ministries which includes six churches in Transkei, South Africa. In addition, he has founded Bethel Gospel Global Assemblies under which seven churches have been planted in the United States. Bethel Gospel Global Assemblies also provides oversight to over 25 ministries across the United States, in the Caribbean, and South Africa. He has expanded Bethel’s short-term missions’ involvement to include medical missions to several countries around the world and has launched 3 full-time missionaries. In January 2006, he established the Bethel Gospel Assembly Trust in Northwest Province, South Africa. Bethel also dedicated its 364-acre Harmony Estates Project in South Africa which houses a church, Christian boarding school, Youth Resource Center, and skills training program. Bishop Brown also oversees a Christian School and a church plant in Jamaica, West Indies.
An avid and life-long learner, Bishop Brown received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Herbert Lehman College. He then went on to earn his Masters of Professional Studies and his Doctorate of Ministry from Alliance Theological Seminary in New York. In 2016, he was also blessed to receive an Honorary Doctorate from Alliance Theological Seminary.
He resides in New York City with his lovely wife, Pastor Lorna Iona Bell Brown. They have two adult children, Justin and Carla and son-in-law, Kinshasa Madison.
Rev. Dr. David Holder Dr. Holder is the visionary and founder of the Covenant Justice Coalition Conference. He has negotiated a church & housing development project that will build 477 apartments and 26 floors, and break ground in 2021. One-fourth of the apartments will be affordable at 55% of the average median income. As a founding member of the New Rochelle Alliance for Justice (NRAJ), a collaborative of four community churches and local construction and trade unions, NRAJ (pronounced “Enrage”) has moved local construction projects toward 50% union workers. They have recently graduated their first class thirteen new union workers through their apprentice program that identifies disenfranchised candidates for union work.
Dr. Holder is a fourth generation pastor, raised in Laurelton Queens, New York. He graduated from Talent Unlimited High School in Manhattan where he majored in voice. He was raised in the Presbyterian Church, spent his early adult years in both the Baptist Church and the Church of God In Christ, ordained in the A.M.E. Church and planted an Evangelical Covenant Church. Dr. Holder is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. Neuroscience 1987), UCLA (M.B.A. 1991), Fuller Theological Seminary (M.Div. 1995), Harvard University (Th.M. 1996), and Princeton Theological Seminary (D.Min. 2005). Dr. Holder is a board member of the Indwelling Dwellings Corporation, whose board has committed over $13 million dollars just in the last few years to create affordability in housing developments where there was none.
Dr. Holder is a fourth generation pastor, raised in Laurelton Queens, New York. He graduated from Talent Unlimited High School in Manhattan where he majored in voice. He was raised in the Presbyterian Church, spent his early adult years in both the Baptist Church and the Church of God In Christ, ordained in the A.M.E. Church and planted an Evangelical Covenant Church. Dr. Holder is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. Neuroscience 1987), UCLA (M.B.A. 1991), Fuller Theological Seminary (M.Div. 1995), Harvard University (Th.M. 1996), and Princeton Theological Seminary (D.Min. 2005). Dr. Holder is a board member of the Indwelling Dwellings Corporation, whose board has committed over $13 million dollars just in the last few years to create affordability in housing developments where there was none.
Rev. John F. Udochi is an Attorney at Law and the Training Pastor at the New York Covenant Church. He leads the Justice Institute responsible for the training curriculum for NYCC ministries. He is also a member of the Love Mercy Do Justice Team and through the Coalition Justice Conference he educates on issues of justice impacting our society. John attended Nyack College - Alliance Theological Seminary, where he received his Master of. Divinity degree. (Hons.) in Bible & Theology (Greek). He is a recipient of the Luis A. Carlo Award for scholarship, leadership, and excellence in urban ministry by the Alliance Theological Seminary. John is married with two children.
Dr. Betty Campbell is a seasoned criminal justice professional with over 24 years of experience developing Restorative and Problem-Solving Justice Programs in The State of New York. Dr. Campbell began her career with the New York County District Attorney’s Office in 1996. In 2002, she joined the New York State Unified Court System where she is currently employed. Dr. Campbell is an adjunct Professor at the King Graduate School of Urban Studies and Applied Research at Monroe College. She has served as faculty for the National Drug Court Institute where she trained jurisdictions nationwide on how to develop Family Dependency Treatment Courts. Dr. Campbell earned her doctorate in Education with a specialization in Leadership from St. John Fisher College. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice from Iona College and a Masters in Public Administration, with a specialization in Public and Non-Profit Management, from New York University. Dr. Campbell is also a certified Trauma-Informed Trainer. Dr. Campbell serves as a member of the New York State Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission and the DCAJ (Outside of New York City) Diversity Taskforce where she serves as the Chair of the Nonjudicial Opportunity Subcommittee.
Rev. Dierdra Clark, grew up in New Rochelle and is thrilled to be serving in a church in her hometown. After graduating from Mount Holyoke College, she moved to Washington D.C where she intended to change the world through a political career — only God had much better plans. After many years, which included working on Capitol Hill and completing a graduate degree at Columbia University in public policy, she finally landed back at home, in a church committed to social justice. She is so thankful that God, in his providence, brought her back home to a church that is committed to having a profound impact on marginalized communities. Certain of what God was now doing in her life, Rev. Clark went back to school and received her M.Div from Alliance Theological Seminary. At NYCC, Dierdra leads the Love Mercy Do Justice Team which among other things holds an annual Conference that seeks to educate and train the church community on issues of justice. Rev. Clark is also active in her denomination serving as Chair of the East Coast Conference Ministerial Association. Locally, Rev. Clark is also President of the New Rochelle Library Board.
Derek Ferguson currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer at the Robin Hood Foundation. Ferguson is responsible for setting the financial, operational, infrastructure and strategic goals that advance Robin Hood’s mission of fighting poverty in New York City. Prior to his current position, Ferguson was the Chief Operating Officer at Revolt TV and Chief Growth Officer of Combs Enterprises. He joined Combs Enterprises in 1998 and was a trusted advisor to Mr. Sean Combs for 19 years, serving as CFO and managing all business operations for Mr. Combs and his brands. Prior to joining Combs Enterprises, Derek was the Vice President of Finance and Operations for BMG Special Products, a division of BMG Entertainment. He began his tenure at BMG Entertainment in January 1996 as Vice President of Worldwide Finance. He had previously served as the Chief Operating Officer of Urban Profile Communications Inc., a start-up magazine that he co-founded. The magazine was sold in 1991 at which time Derek joined Bain and Company where he spent five years ascending to the position of Manager. Derek is a 1990 graduate of Harvard Business School, and a 1985 graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He grew up in the Bronx and currently resides in Stamford, CT. He is married with three children, Reginald, Maya and Peri