She is a member of both local and national chapters of the Society of Human Resource Management. She holds a bachelor’s degree and is a Senior Certified Professional through the SHRM. Kerry was born on the island of Jamaica, migrated to the U.S. with her family at age 3 and grew up in New York City. She and her husband Chris have three children Adam, Adalyn and Addison.

She opened SOSA’s first regional office in North Carolina. After earning her Master of Business Administration degree at Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, she worked at S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., Eastman Kodak Company and the High Museum of Art. Prior to accepting her position with Global Ministries, she served for nine years as associate dean for marketing and communications and chief marketing officer at Emory University School of Law, overseeing the school’s internal and external digital and print communications efforts, recruitment marketing strategies, event management and journals publication program. Susan has lived in Atlanta for many years, but she still calls the Eastern Shore of Maryland home.

Kathleen was born and raised in Zimbabwe. She is a nurse and midwife who first practiced in Southern Africa and then worked as a maternal, newborn and child health program manager in Central Asia for 10 years. She moved permanently to the United States in 2008 and has worked with Global Ministries for much of the time since then. She is married to the Rev. Bruce Griffith, a retired elder in The United Methodist Church. They live in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

A lifelong United Methodist and preacher’s kid, Dana is layperson from the Western North Carolina Annual Conference. She has served the church in a variety of capacities, including consulting and co-leading a predominately white church and African American church through a merger, serving as a co-chair for the Western North Carolina Annual Conference’s young adult leadership development program and serving on the denomination’s Connectional Table. She is a three-time graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in economics, a master’s degree in business education, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in leadership studies. She also received a master’s degree in school administration from Gardner-Webb University. Dana resides in Atlanta, Georgia, and serves the community through her membership in the Junior League of Atlanta and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. Dana splits her time between North Carolina and Georgia and is a member of St. Matthew’s UMC in Greensboro, North Carolina.

He serves as the blogmaster for the UM & Global website (www.umglobal.org). He has taught mission, church history, world religions and leadership at Ripon College, Eden Theological Seminary, Wesley Theological Seminary, Wesleyan University-Philippines and through the United Methodist Course of Study. He coordinated the bicentennial celebration of the first Methodist mission society in the United States, has contributed to the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism’s work on mission from the margins and the 100^th anniversary of the founding of the International Missionary Council, and is treasurer of the American Society of Missiology.

For her last eight years at the conference, she served as director of Connectional Ministries, overseeing missional relationships, camping ministries, lay leadership, and ministries related to diversity and inclusion of all people in church life. Prior to joining the West Ohio Conference staff, Dee served seven years as the assistant dean of Student Life and director of the Course of Study School at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio.

Ordained as a deacon in the UMC in 1999, Dee says her deacon identity has always been characterized by direct involvement in ministries that serve the needs of others. Two of the direct projects of which she is most proud demonstrate her commitment to mission at both the local and global levels.  Locally, she has served as a charter board member of the Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio, a nonprofit health care agency that provides free medications, health screenings, and wellness checks to low- and moderate-income families in Franklin County. Globally, she has been instrumental in building relationships to support and endow Wings of the Morning, an emergency medical aviation ministry in the North Katanga Conference in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Dee was born and raised in Englewood, Ohio. She graduated from Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Art in Psychology and Religion. She earned a Master of Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been married for 30 years to her husband, Ed Miner, and is the proud parent of three adult children, Special Olympics USA Games medalist Sarah Kate, religion scholar Allison, and jazz trumpeter Lucas. Her deacon secondary appointment is at McKinley United Methodist Church in Dayton, Ohio, and she maintains strong involvement in the United Methodist Church for All People in Columbus, Ohio.

A lifelong United Methodist, Todd grew up the son of a United Methodist minister in Florida. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida Southern College and a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida, Levin College of Law. Prior to joining Global Ministries in August 2019, Todd practiced law in Washington, D.C. and Orlando, FL, as a partner at Carlton Fields, a national law firm. During part of that time, he served as the chair of the Immigration Law and Justice Network Board, a United Methodist ministry supporting sites across the country that provide free or low-cost immigration legal services to vulnerable immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Todd and his wife, Kristin Willis, have three children, Carter, Cooper, and Campbell.