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Rev. Dr. Marie Onwubuariri serves as Director of Intercultural Ministries of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies, where she leads a team that champions ABHMS’s historic commitment to relevant ministry within ethnic and language-specific communities while also raising the attentiveness and ability of all leaders and disciples to engage in transformative mission work in the increasingly multiracial and multicultural United States and Puerto Rico. With a lifetime of experiences and learning at the intersection of a multiplicity of cultures, Dr. Onwubuariri brings to this role a cumulative approach to cross-cultural communication and competency; diversity, equity, and inclusion assessment and praxis; and racial justice and anti-racism commitment and action. Her education includes the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry at Berkeley School of Theology in California, where she is also an affiliate faculty member in Practical Theology and Intercultural Studies. She is author of “Reframing tension for transformation: bridge-crossing | bridge-making | bridge-being” (Review & Expositor, 118, April 2022), and coeditor of Trouble the Water: A Christian Resource for the Work of Racial Justice (Nurturing Faith, 2017).

Reverend Kerwin Webb served as the National Coordinator for Justice and Mission Engagement for ABHMS from February 2023 to September 2024. Rev. Webb is an ordained American Baptist minister committed to the empowerment of God’s people. A training and development specialist, Rev. Webb is dedicated to helping cultivate an educated, empowered, and equipped generation of change agents.

Sam (he/him/his) serves the churches and ministries of the Evergreen Association of American Baptist Churches to innovate, transform and renew. He acts as the Associate Executive Minister of Innovation and Design and the director of the Pneuma Initiative, which helps empower the Evergreen churches. He loves to dream and strategize with others to help individuals and communities fulfill their missional calling. Sam is a Korean-Canadian who has lived in many different cities before calling Seattle home. He graduated from Regent College in Vancouver, BC, with a Master in Christian Studies (Arts and Christianity) and from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, with a Master of Divinity. He has also received his certificate of training through IDEO U in Foundations for Design Thinking. Sam also teaches Ministry Innovation as an adjunct professor and is pursuing his Doctorate of Ministry at the Berkeley School of Theology (BST). Throughout the past two decades, he has been blessed to have served as a pastor in Korean, Japanese, British, and Chinese churches. He has a passion for connecting theology to the concerns of contemporary culture. He also loves exploring the connections between spirituality and art in various forms. Outside of ministry, he records and produces music in multiple genres and works as a freelance soundtrack composer.