meet our team
board of directors
Nona Jones
Founder, Board Chair
Nona Jones is a rare combination of preacher, author, business executive, entrepreneur, social justice advocate. In her day job she serves as Head of Faith Partnerships at Facebook. She is the author of best-selling books Success from the Inside Out and From Social Media to Social Ministry.
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Dr. A.R. Bernard
Board Member
Dr. Bernard leads the Christian Cultural Center (CCC), to New York’s largest house of worship with more than 45,000 active, engaged members. His accolades are many and diverse, including being named to the Ebony Power 100 list, New York’s Most Powerful Black people, and being featured on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday among many other recognitions.
Dr. Bernice King
Board Member
Dr. King is the Chief Executive Officer of The King Center, which was founded by her mother, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, in 1968 in memory of her father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She is a graduate of Spelman College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a Masters of Divinity and Doctorate of Law Degrees from Emory University.
Louis Upkins
Board Member
Oprah, Starbucks, Israel and New Breed, The Olympic Games, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, UPS, Cracker Barrel, and more have called on Louis Upkins' expertise. As a brand strategist and serial entrepreneur, his products have been featured in many prominent, influential national publications such as Time, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and People.
Brian Boland
Board Member
Brian Boland is the co-founder of the Delta Fund, along with his wife Katie. The Delta Fund invests time and energy into organizations that demonstrate measurably successful and scalable programs focused on poverty alleviation and justice reform. He recently retired from Vice President of Partnerships Product Marketing, Strategic Planning, Analytics, Partner Engineering and Marketing at Facebook.
Rosilyn Houston
Board Member
As Chief Talent & Culture Executive for BBVA USA, Rosilyn Houston is the highest ranking female in the U.S., and the first African American to serve on the bank’s management committee. She has been named to the Top 25 Women in Banking for multiple years, as well as Black Enterprise Most Powerful Women and Most Powerful Corporate Executives in America.
LoriAnn Biggers
Board Member
LoriAnn is the CEO and co-founder of Bella Vaughan, Inc., an award-winning global design and manufacturing company.
LoriAnn was President of Lloyd’s of London for North America. She has held c-suite executive roles at Navigators Group, Wells Fargo and Marsh McLennan.
Scott Beck
Board Member
Scott Beck has held a long-series of executive leadership roles including Vice Chairman and COO of Blockbuster, Chairman and CEO of Boston Market, and Founcer and Chairman of Einstein Bagel Corp. He and his wife founded Gloo, a technology company with the mission of serving ministries to help them scale and support their purpose with platform models and exponential technologies.
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Bishop Claude Alexander
Board Member
Bishop Alexander leads The Park Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a Past President of the Hampton University Ministers Conference, the oldest and largest interdenominational gathering of African-American clergy in the United States. He serves on many boards and is the Chair of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Board of Trustees and the Second-Presiding Bishop of the Kingdom Association of Covenant Pastors.
leadership team
Nona Jones
Founder, Board Chair
Nona Jones is a rare combination of preacher, author, business executive, entrepreneur, social justice advocate. In her day job she serves as Head of Faith Partnerships at Facebook. She is the author of best-selling books Success from the Inside Out and From Social Media to Social Ministry.
Antwan Steele
Executive Director
As Executive Director, Antwan Steele works in partnership with the Founder, Board of Directors and Leadership Team to develop and implement the organization’s strategic plan. Prior to Faith & Prejudice, he served as a thought leader to churches, nonprofits, and technology startups across the country. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religion & Corporate Strategy from Vanderbilt University and Master of Divinity from Harvard.
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Imani Missouri
Programs Director
As the Programs Director, Imani Missouri drives the overall program strategy for our local church network and strategic partners to help them advance racial equity across education, health, criminal justice and economic disparities. Imani is a certified Personal Development and Executive Coach. She holds degrees in Urban Policy Analysis and Management (MS) from The New School and Psychology & Portuguese Brazilian Studies (BA) from Smith College.
Dr. Brad R. Fulton
Institute Director
As Director of the Faith & Prejudice Institute, Brad Fulton leads our efforts to curate and disseminate research at the intersection of faith, race, and policy. He is a professor of public affairs at Indiana University. His research draws on theological insights, organizational scholarship, and critical theory to examine the social, political, and economic impact of faith-based organizations.
Anna Stamborski
Director of Strategic Partnerships
As the Director of Strategic Partnerships, Anna Stamborski supports the creation of strategic relationships in order to build strong coalitions across the country. Anna is a certified Restorative Justice educator, mediator, licensed public teacher, and qualitative researcher of congregations. She holds a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and degrees in Education and Spanish (BS) from the University of Wisconsin.