| Tivaun Cooper is a life-long Anglican/Episcopalian. At Trinity Church Wall Street, he serves as Verger, Acolyte, Eucharistic Minister, and the LGBT Concerns Group former co-chair. In the Diocese of New York, he has served as co-chair of the LGBT Concerns Committee; is a member of the Absalom Jones Planning Committee, and a Lay Alternate Deputy to the 80th General Convention The Episcopal Church. Tivaun was pleased to be an Episcopal Peace Fellowship Young Adult Delegate to the 79th General Convention. He is also a nominee for Executive Council from Province II at the provincial synod 2021. He currently works at Northwell Health, New York State's largest medical network, where he works as a medical administrator. He previously worked with 32bj, fighting for minimum wage for union workers. In 2018 he was nominated for the Young Adult of the Year Award by The Church Club of New York. Tivaun was also a member of Pride's NYC heritage - The March Committee, where he served for three years. Tivaun currently serves on the associate board of CASA NYC, that raises awareness and issues with children in foster care. |  |
| Anastasia Cunningham is the Campus Ministry Program Assistant at Kansas State University and works for the Diocese of Kansas. As the program assistant, she oversees campus ministry, as well as working with youth and young adults in the diocese. Anastasia graduated from Oklahoma State University (OSU) with a BA in Hotel and Restaurant Management. While at OSU, Anastasia fell in love with campus ministry and as a result she works to create a similar welcoming experience for the students at Kansas State. In her free time, she likes reading, the Green Bay Packers, and all things Disney. |  |
| Karen D’Angelo is a Grants Management Specialist at FEMA Region 5 in Chicago, IL. She works with the State of Illinois to leverage federal, local, and state funds to reduce risks from natural hazards. When she’s not reading grant applications, Karen is a member of the Friends of the House associate board of Bishop Anderson House, and the Young Women’s Giving Council of the Chicago Foundation for Women. Karen is a member of St. James Cathedral in Chicago, active in the young adult group and the new Meals Ministry. |  |
| Kathleen Franklin currently serves as the Missioner for Youth, Campus, & Young Adult Ministries for the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. Prior to serving in this position, she spent 6 years serving as Director of Youth Ministries in a variety of parishes in Alabama. Kathleen lives in Birmingham, Alabama, loves to be outdoors, and is passionate about the call of youth and young adults to serve as leaders within the Church. |  |
| The Rev. Shannon Kelly is currently serving on the Presiding Bishop’s Staff as the Director of the Department of Faith Formation and Officer for Young Adult and Campus Ministries for The Episcopal Church. She convenes a network of both ministers and young adults to teach, mentor, train, and build relationships in order to equip and empower people to share their story as the body of Christ in God’s continuing mission of reconciliation in the church and world. Shannon’s passion and vocation has focused on advocating for and ministering with children, youth, and young adults through the churches she has served and through the communities in which she has lived. Since 1998 she has served in congregations in California and New York, served as a Chaplain at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and on the Diocesan Staff as Assistant to the Bishop for Christian Formation in the Diocese of Milwaukee. She wrote and edited God of My Heart, a book of prayers written by youth, for youth. She lives on Cape Cod in Forestdale, MA with her husband, The Rev. Dr. Thomas Ferguson, their son, and dog. |  |
| Lilly Lewin is a worship curator, speaker, author, artist, and founder of thinplaceNASHVILLE, and freerangeworship.com She creates sacred space prayer experiences and leads workshops & retreats across the country and beyond. Her passion is to help people of all ages engage God using all their senses and bring art & artists back to church. Lilly and her husband Rob live in Nashville, TN where she’s on the lookout for good coffee, dark chocolate & the best place to watch the sun set. She is a big fan of Instagram @lillylewin, writes a weekly blog post called freerangefriday at godspacelight.com and creates resources for worship at freerangeworship.com. |  |
| Heidi Thorsen is an Episcopal priest living and serving in New Haven, CT, as the Assistant Rector at Trinity Church on the Green. Heidi has several ties to young adult ministry in the area: as Associate Chaplain to the Episcopal Church at Yale (ECY), a team member of the Young Adult Episcopalians network, and a former chaplain to (and forever alumna of) St. Hilda’s House, an Episcopal Service Corps Program based at Christ Church, New Haven. Heidi’s educational background includes studies at Union Theological Seminary (MDiv, ’17) and Yale Divinity School (STM, ’19), though her greatest education has been encountering Christ in the people around her – at Yale New Haven Hospital, as a chaplain; on the Green, as a former Chapel on the Green Coordinator; and every day through the various ways our lives intersect. At rest, Heidi enjoys hiking, cheese, tea, romance novels, and spending quality time with her husband and two beautiful cats. |  |
| Fr. Allen Wakabayashi serves as Chaplain at the Episcopal Church at Princeton, a church serving the campuses of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary. After many years serving in campus ministry in the Evangelical world, Fr. Allen felt irrevocably drawn into the Anglican tradition and was later ordained as a priest. He was born and raised in Chicago and grew up in an active Japanese American church community. When he is not serving on campus, Fr. Allen enjoys getting out on local ponds and lakes to do a little bass fishing. He is married to his wife, Diane, who is also an ordained priest. |  |
| Fr. Blake Woods is an Episcopal priest and has been the Chaplain to the University of Oklahoma since 2013. He is the Province 7 coordinator for the Young Adult and Campus Ministry Advisory Council, as well as the clergy representative on the Happening National Committee. |  |