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Rev. Deborah DeWinter
Rev. DeWinter is the WCC program executive for the United States office of the WCC. She holds a Masters in Divinity from Yale Divinity School and a Bachelor’s degree from Luther College (Decorah, IA) where she later worked as director of student activities and career planning and placement services. In Hong Kong DeWinter developed ministries with South Asian migrant workers and pastored a Chinese Lutheran congregation. She has been a parish pastor in Lincoln, Nebraska, the program director for resettlement at the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, and associate director of the Church World Service Refugee and Immigration Program. She spent two years as a consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Resettlement Section in Geneva, and was the executive director of FilmAid International, New York.

Jessica Ralph
A member of The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., and a graduate of The Ailey / Fordham University Bachelor of Fine Arts Program, Jessica Nycole Ralph is a young, vibrant, developing professional artist who uses her gifts in dance and the arts to minister and inspire. She feels that hip hop and the arts in general are very powerful languages in reaching people, especially today’s younger generations. Jessica conducts workshops that focus on using liturgical dance, hip hop, and performing arts to express self in serving God.

Tricia Nolan
Tricia is the ecumenical formation Intern at the US Office of the WCC in New York where she focuses on connecting young adults and international scholars with the greater ecumenical movement. A graduate of Whitworth College in Spokane, WA, Tricia worked for the Presbyterian Church USA as a volunteer in Argentina and an intern in Louisville, Kentucky. Recently she returned from India where she taught English, Philosophy and Spanish at an international school. Along with her WCC internship, she is currently studying for her master’s degree in International Educational Development at Columbia Teacher’s College.

Dr. Guillermo Kerber (Uruguay)
Dr. Kerber is the WCC's programme rxecutive for Impunity, Justice and Reconciliation and Latin America & the Caribbean in the International Affairs, Peace and Human Security Team. He holds academic degrees in Philosophy and Theology (Uruguay) and a doctorate on Sciences of Religion (UMESP, Brazil). He was the director of SEDHU, an ecumenical organization working on Human Rights and Rural Development in Uruguay. He served as a professor of Social Ethics both at the National and Catholic Universities in Montevideo. He has planned workshops for religious and societal leaders in countries with Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, participated in panels on religion and violence at the the World Social Forum, and organized consultations at the Bossey Institute in Switzerland. He facilitates the participation of Latin American churches and civil society organizations in the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva. He is member of the International Advisory Council of the Centre for Justice and Reconciliation (The Hague, the Netherlands) and of the Board of the Life and Peace Institute (Uppsala, Sweden).

Kent Yoder has served as the Program Assistant to the WCC’s global coordinator for the Decade to Overcome Violence: Churches Seeking Reconciliation and Peace 2001-2010 since 2004.  In this capacity, he facilitates communication and networking on the Decade among churches and ecumenical organizations worldwide.  His responsibilities include accompanying the planning of local DOV committees around the world, preparing newsletters and conducting research on peace and justice issues. Prior to his appointment to the WCC’s DOV program in Geneva, he served as a Program Assistant in the US Office of the World Council of Churches during the 2004 US Focus year for the DOV. Kent is a 2002 graduate of Goshen College majoring in Religion, Philosophy and Cultural Studies and has completed a year of graduate studies in Theology and Ethics at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary.  Kent’s study and travel abroad has included time in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.