Healing the Divide: Acting for Racial Justice and Equality

Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Lewis is Senior Minister at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City and Executive Director of The Middle Project. Lewis earned her M.Div.at Princeton Theological Seminary and her Ph.D. in Psychology and Religion at Drew University. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Lewis is a nationally recognized author, speaker, and preacher on the topics of racial, economic, and gender/LGBTI justice. Lewis has been adjunct faculty at Princeton Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary, The Graduate Theological Union, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and Wesley Theological Seminary. She has been interviewed on NPR’s Weekend Edition, WABC, WNBC, CNN, GritTV, Ebony.com, and Essence magazine, and The New York Times online. Author of The Power of Stories: A Guide for Leaders in Multi-Racial and Multi-Cultural Congregations and a children’s book that celebrates diversity, You Are So Wonderful!, Lewis has published numerous articles and sermons, and blogs for The Huffington Post. She is married to her best friend, John Janka, with whom she works for racial reconciliation every day.East Inflatables

Anurag Gupta is a social entrepreneur, human rights lawyer, academic researcher, and cultural innovator.  He envisions a world that is socially just, environmentally sustainable, and spiritually fulfilling.  A published author on the subjects of social entrepreneurship and human rights, from 2011 - 2013, Anurag worked with the Vera Institute of Justice and the Pipeline Crisis Initiative to design and complete the Root Cause Framework.  He has since joined the Middle Project to incubate and launch BE MORE.