Team

Thann Bennett is the Founder and President of Every Good Work, which exists to equip Jesus followers for a life of impact. Every Good Work serves individuals through The Equipped newsletter, and supports Kingdom-focused endeavors with high-quality strategic, creative, and advocacy services. Thann and his wife, Brooke, are co-Founders of A Fearless Life, which works to find and fund a family for every adoption-eligible foster child in America. Thann has more than 20 years of high-level public policy experience, with a particular focus on the U.S. Congress and the United Nations. He is the author of In Search of the King and My Fame, His Fame.

Phebe Meyer is the Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor for The Center for Christianity and Public Life. She has worked with major family foundations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Annie E. Casey Foundation, building partnerships with conservative faith organizations and center-right political organizations to further economic opportunity and mobility policy issues.

Carlos Duran is the President and Founder of National Hispanic Pastors Alliance, an alliance of Hispanic leaders of Christian denominations and organizations. His passion is bringing together faith, education, and social action to produce lasting community transformation. Carlos Duran was recognized in 2011 by President Obama and the White House as a “Champion of Change”, he is an ordained Pastor and holds degrees in Business Administration and Project Management.

Mandi Hart is a filmmaker and attorney specializing in creative content development and intellectual property. She is President of MORE Productions, a culture-creation firm, and President of Cave Pictures Publishing, an independent publisher of spiritually resonant comic books and graphic novels.

Daniel Heffington is a storyteller, writer, and speaker for HSLDA Action (a national advocacy organization promoting homeschooling and educational freedom) and Generation Joshua (a national civics organization for teens) where he has led messaging, content, and communications strategies since 2013. Daniel also has a background in grassroots activism, parental rights advocacy, and has worked with numerous federal campaigns. In addition to his advocacy work, Daniel is a songwriter and recording artist. He regularly performs at clubs, conferences, summer camps, churches, and events around the US.

Katherine “Kiki” Bradley is a policy and strategy consultant with Chartwell Policy Solutions. She brings with her over 12 years of experience working for three members of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill and serving as Presidential Appointee in the Bush Administration at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) running the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program.

Nace Lanier serves as the Director of Interfaith Chapels at Reagan and Dulles International Airports. He is the Vicar of the Clapham Group adding encouragement, perspective, and prayers. Nace is an executive coach with Focusing Forward Consulting equipping leaders to excel in the midst of storms and success.

Amy Simon is founder and owner of boutique consulting firm Simon Advisory. She most recently served as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) at the U.S. Department of Labor. Her portfolio, with over $7 billion in annual budget responsibility, included unemployment insurance, workforce investment, trade adjustment assistance, and ETA’s regional offices in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas, and Chicago.

J. Mark Brinkmoeller leads action of diverse organisations, communities and their leadership toward bipartisan support and implementation of successful advocacy, development, health and humanitarian work in the United States and around the world. He has had the privilege to work for and alongside Catholic bishops, Members of Congress, and Nashville music artists, leading advocacy organizations like Bread for the World and ONE as well as government agencies like U.S. Agency for International Development.

Nadine is the President of IRF Secretariat, where she is working to build infrastructure to grow the religious freedom movement globally. She is also a Senior Advisor at Patriot Voices, where she provides her expertise to shape the organization’s special emphasis on public policies that support working families. Drawing on her extensive network and coalition-building experiences, she has helped build unique coalitions on issues such as paid family leave, health care, tax reform, and international religious freedom.

Abby M. McCloskey is the founder and principal of McCloskey Policy LLC, a research and consulting firm serving business and political leaders across the country, including presidential and Congressional candidates, Cabinet-level appointees, Fortune 500 CEOs, and foundations.

Michael Wear is the Founder, President and CEO of The Center for Christianity and Public Life, a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution based in the nation's capitol with the mission to contend for the credibility of Christian resources in public life, for the public good. For well over a decade, he has served as a trusted resource and advisor for a range of civic leaders on matters of faith and public life, including as a White House and presidential campaign staffer. Michael is a leading voice on building a healthy civic pluralism in twenty-first century America.

Melissa is the head of Public Square Strategies and its Principal Consultant. She brings with her over a decade of experience working in international settings on organizational strategy, program design and strategy, communications, business development, and relationship building. An expert in European Affairs and transatlantic relations, Melissa’s work on global issues such as religion and belief, violent extremism, international development, soft power, and arts and culture is broadly respected on both sides of the Atlantic.

Miguel Petrosky is a freelance essayist, writer, and journalist who covers religion's influence on American and international politics and culture, and has been published with Sojourners, Christianity Today, Religion & Politics, and The Revealer. While also specializing in international relations and development, Miguel currently works at the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) as a Program Associate in the Africa Department. Miguel graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, with a B.A. in Government. Miguel is an ordained ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is based in Washington, D.C.

Caleb Seibert was born in Waco, Texas and graduated from Baylor University in 2016. After serving for a year as a project coordinator for a refugee relief organization in northern Greece, Caleb returned to the United States to pursue a masters degree in public affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. After graduation, Caleb worked for nearly two years for the American Enterprise Institute, where he conducted research and writing on upward mobility, workforce development, and prisoner reentry programming. Caleb then worked for more than two and a half years in the United States' Senate, first as a Legislative Aide with Senator Josh Hawley and later as a Legislative Assistant for Senator Marco Rubio. During his time in the Senate, Caleb oversaw a policy portfolio covering financial services, tax, budget, welfare programs, family policy, housing, and trade. Caleb is now living in Miami, Florida, where he leads a new church plant.