State of the Black Church
October 7 – 9
Sunday Night Worship Service @6pm
Rev. Dr. Frederick Haynes, III
Glad Tidings Church of God in Christ
970 Glad Tidings Way. Hayward, CA 94544
Bishop J.W. Macklin
Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll
Founder of Green The Church
Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III
Senior Pastor, Friendship-West Baptist Church, Dallas, TX
Rue Mapp
CEO & Founder of Outdoor Afro
Featured Speakers
Danny Kennedy
Managing Director California Clean Energy Fund
Rev. Dr. James Brenneman
President of American Baptist Seminary
Reginald Chatman
Senior Director of Customer Experience at Bloom Energy
Deacon G. L. Hodge
Community Conduit
Rev. Michael McBride
Pastor of The Way Christian Center, Berkeley, CA
Rev. Dr. Charley Hames
Senior Pastor, Beebe Memorial Cathedral, Oakland, CA
Rev. Bruce Carroll Sr.
Senior Pastor, Antioch Baptist Church, Shreveport, LA
Rev. Emily L. Carroll
Vice President of Carroll Ministries Inc
Rev. Dr. Dwight Webster
Beth Eden Baptist Church, Oakland, CA
Kimberly Lewis
Senior Vice President, Community Advancement, Conferences & Events of U.S. Green Building Council
Pastor Shane B. Scott
Senior Pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church, Los Angeles, CA
Pastor Welton Pleasant, II
President of the California State Baptist Convention
Dr. Sandra Curtis
Director of Innovative Projects, Plastic Pollution Coalition
Shaniece Alexander
Executive Director, Oakland Food Policy Council
Rev. Michael Smith
McGee Avenue Baptist Church, Berkeley, CA
David Braun
Project Director, Rootskeeper
Rev. Dr. Barbara Galloway-Lee
Community Care Liaison in collaboration with Alameda County Care Alliance in Oakland, CA
Servant B.K. Woodson, Sr.
Pastor & Founder of The Bay Area Christian Connection Oakland, CA
Michael Harris
Co-Chair of the California Black Agriculture Working Group
Rev. Michael Wallace
Senior Pastor Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Oakland, CA
Rev. Susan Hendershot
President, Interfaith Power & Light (IPL)
Alvaro S. Sanchez
Director, Environmental Equity for The Greenlining Institute
Aminah ‘Chef Mimi’ Robinson-Briscoe
Creator, ‘Bringing it to the Table” Culinary Docu-Reality Competition
Aaron Clay
CEO of Sunwwarm
Lindi von Mutius
Chief of Staff, Sierra Club
Minna Toloui
Program Manager, Ecology Center
Kahlil Kettering
Urban Conservation Director, The Nature Conservancy
Pastor Anthony L. Trufant
Senior Pastor, Emmanuel Baptist Church, Brooklyn, NY
Rev. Dr. Tyson-Lord Gray
President & Founder of Green Community Vision Inc.
Kevin D. Williams, JD, MPH
Associate Director of Berkeley Youth Alternatives
David Roach
Co-founder, The Familyhood Connection Inc.
Lena Easton-Calabria
Urban Conservation Associate, The Nature Conservancy
Rev. Kenneth Chambers
Pastor of West Side Missionary Baptist Church
Susan Stephenson
Executive Director, Interfaith Power & Light
Cheryl Vaughn
Executive Director, Solar Richmond
Rev. Rodrick Burton
New Northside Missionary Baptist Church St. Louis, MO
Mark Hall
Founder of Revalue.io
Elsadig Elsheikh
Director, Global Justice Program University of California-Berkeley
Taison Kwamilele
Head of Public Relations and Community Engagement California Waste Solutions
Pastor Leroy Gill
Founder & Senior Pastor of Jubilee Community Church, St. Louis, MO
Rebecca Weaver
Cities Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy
Nuvia Alvarez
Co-founder of Youth Going Green
Tiffany Grant King
Program Mentor, Youth Going Green
Rev. Earl W. Koteen
Sunflower Alliance
Pastor Brian Hunter
Senior Pastor, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, West Oakland, CA
Andreas Karelas
Founder and Executive Director of RE-volv
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