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Rev. Kathleen McShane is an ordained Elder in the California-Nevada Conference of the UMC, where she led congregations and was Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Pacific School of Religion. Before seminary, she practiced law in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kathi is co-founder of The Changemaker Initiative, a national movement of churches committed to becoming risk-taking organizations and empowering laypeople to become compassion-driven changemakers like Jesus. Kathi is Director of Learning and Innovation for Wesleyan Impact Partners and Pastor of First United Methodist Church of Paso Robles. She lives on a lovely vineyard on the Central Coast of California.
Rabbi Elan Babchuck serves as the Executive Vice President at Clal, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, and the Founding Executive Director of Glean Network, which partners with Columbia Business School. He is also the co-author of Picking Up the Pieces: Leadership After Empire (2023, Fortress Press), and contributed to Meaning Making – 8 Values That Drive America’s Newest Generations (2020, St. Mary’s Press).
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