Meet The Leadership
Leadership Council
Andrea Smith
Andrea Smith is a cofounder of Evangelicals 4 Justice and a board member of the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies. She is currently chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Riverside. Her books include Conquest, Native Americans and the Christian Right, and Unreconciled (forthcoming).
Leadership Council
Andrew Bush
Andrew is the founding director of the Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice Studies, a program of Bethlehem Bible College on the West Bank. He also serves as the pastor of the East Jerusalem International Church. Previous to this Andrew was chair of the Global Studies and Service department at Eastern University where he taught missiology for 15 years.
NEME Staff
Bruce Fisk
Dr. Bruce Fisk is a former professor of New Testament at Westmont College in CA. As Senior Research Fellow, he is responsible for creating Israel/Palestine dialogue curriculum for evangelical and academic groups, curating and writing articles related to evangelical engagement, and building relationships with evangelical academic institutions.
Leadership Council
Jeff Anderson
Daniel G. Hummel (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is the director of The Lumen Center in Madison, WI and a research fellow in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author most recently of The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle Over the End Times Shaped a Nation (Eerdmans, 2023).
Leadership Council
Jer Swigart
In addition to his participation in local and national justice and reconciliation commissions, Jer is a North American contributing member of the Reconcilers Together Alliance, a Pepperdine Cross Sector Leadership Fellow, and a Senior Fellow of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute. He holds an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary and his Doctor of Leadership in Global Perspectives from Portland Seminary.
NEME Staff
Mercy Aiken
As the NEME Relationship Manager, Mercy engages evangelical leaders, scholars, and pastors in learning more about the challenges that Christians and others face in the Holy Land and across the Middle East. Mercy is based in Flagstaff, Arizona. She holds a B.A. in English from Northern Arizona University and is currently working on a Master of Arts in Theology/Culture/Peacemaking from Saint Stephen’s University in New Brunswick, Canada.
Leadership Council
Randy Tomlinson
Randy has served in a variety of teaching and servant-leadership roles in several Presbyterian and Baptist churches in Minnesota and Tennessee. Most recently, he served as a deacon and lay pastor of the bi-cultural, Arabic Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, TN. Randy currently serves on the board for the Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East (NEME).
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Leadership Council
Andrea Smith
Andrea Smith is a cofounder of Evangelicals 4 Justice and a board member of the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies. She is currently chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Riverside. Her books include Conquest, Native Americans and the Christian Right, and Unreconciled (forthcoming).
Leadership Council
Andrea Smith
Andrea Smith is a cofounder of Evangelicals 4 Justice and a board member of the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies. She is currently chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Riverside. Her books include Conquest, Native Americans and the Christian Right, and Unreconciled (forthcoming).
Leadership Council
Andrea Smith
Andrea Smith is a cofounder of Evangelicals 4 Justice and a board member of the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies. She is currently chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Riverside. Her books include Conquest, Native Americans and the Christian Right, and Unreconciled (forthcoming).
Leadership Council
Andrea Smith
Andrea Smith is a cofounder of Evangelicals 4 Justice and a board member of the North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies. She is currently chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Riverside. Her books include Conquest, Native Americans and the Christian Right, and Unreconciled (forthcoming).
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