Like you, I wasn’t born knowing how to do justice. I was mostly oblivious to the need for justice at all. In high school, my Sunday school class read Isaiah 58 and it opened my eyes to the call of God’s people to do justice. That set the course of the rest of my life.

Now I teach workshops and lead cohorts in a variety of settings: churches, seminary-based continuing ed for pastors, virtual and in-person small groups, and in university settings with participants in and from across the globe. I write sermon series and Bible studies to help churches become places of justice equipping. My passion is depth of equipping. You can find additional writing and resources on Instagram and Substack.

Time studying in Guatemala and a subsequent internship at the International Justice Mission were formative in re-shaping my imagination that it doesn’t have to be this way. I learned to look behind the curtain at how injustice works and saw real people doing real justice in real situations.

Since then, I have worked for 25+ years at local, state, and international levels on a range of justice issues from education reform and workplace equity to human trafficking and spiritual abuse. I have studied Scripture with a justice lens for two decades. In living, studying, and working on four continents, I’ve seen first-hand how injustices work in different contexts and what approaches work (and don’t work) in confronting them. I hold a master’s degree in social policy and development from the London School of Economics. I have been both a perpetrator and victim of injustice.

As I worked in these arenas, I started to realize how many Christians in my circles were under-resourced to both identify the injustices closest to them and to confront them effectively.

People want to confront injustice and I am grieved that people aren’t equipped for the justice work God calls them to do. My spiritual trauma at the hands of church leaders who said and thought they were passionate about justice crystallized the difference between a passion for justice in theory and the real world capacity to make justice happen in our actual lives. I walked out of one particular meeting with a regional church leader realizing we needed to be proactively equipping Christians for this work. We aren’t born knowing it, but we’re called to do it and the results when we aren’t equipped are devastating.

So I started equipping! In 2017, I led my small group in Morocco through a justice Bible study that I was writing week-by-week in the time after my newborn fell asleep at night. Several of them shared how transformational the experience was for them and encouraged me to keep developing the materials and training.

Since then I have been leading workshops, developing materials for leaders, churches, and groups, and coaching Christians on justice topics.

May we be a people preventing, recognizing, confronting, and helping communities rebuild well after the devastation of injustice.