Friday, November 13

Stacie Sanchez Hare is the Director of No Kid Hungry Texas where she leads a campaign to end child hunger in Texas. She joins us after working at City Year San Antonio as the Managing Director of Impact, overseeing partnerships with schools and community organizations in the San Antonio area. Before returning to Texas in 2017, she lived in New York City for 15 years where she worked in city government and nonprofit roles related to youth development, community engagement, and social justice issues. Stacie earned a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from St. Edward’s University. Stacie serves on the Jolt Texas Initiative Board, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young Latinos in civic engagement. Stacie is based in San Antonio where she was born and raised.

Jamie Olson is the VP of Policy & Advocacy at Feeding Texas.

Adam Nicholas Phillips is an executive leader and strategist whose career has been defined by a single animating purpose: the renewal of public life for the common good.

Over two decades, Adam has built and led institutions, coalitions, and initiatives at scale — moving across government, international, nonprofit, and civic sectors to shape the narratives and structures that make a more just and pluralistic world possible.

As a Biden-Harris Administration official at the United States Agency for International Development, Adam led Faith-based and Localization efforts in a dual development and diplomatic capacity, developing the first-ever U.S. policy for strategic religious engagement and partnerships across the federal government — working closely with the White House, Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, and others — to shape development policy, forge new and non-traditional partnerships, and advance democracy initiatives across nearly 100 countries.

As Chief Executive Officer of Interfaith America — the nation's largest bridge-building organization — Adam led the scaling and near-doubling of institutional operations spanning campus, corporate, and civic spaces, stewarding one of the country's most consequential efforts to turn religious diversity from a source of division into a force for the common good.

Earlier in his career, Adam led faith mobilization at global advocacy and development organizations including ONE, Bread for the World, and World Vision, and carried that same values-driven commitment into political campaigns at the national level. He is also an ordained minister who has founded and led congregations.

His work has been featured in The Atlantic, The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post, NPR, the Huffington Post and the Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club. He delivered the first-of-its-kind TEDx talk on Christian inclusion. Adam lives in Chicago with his wife Sarah and son Desmond.

Dr. Craig Gundersen is the Snee Family Endowed Chair at the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty and a professor in the Department of Economics at Baylor University. Prior to joining Baylor, he was ACES Distinguished Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at University of Illinois and, before that, he had positions at Iowa State University and USDA, Economic Research Service. Gundersen is the creator of Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap project, a Round Table Fellow of the Farm Foundation, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities at the University of Notre Dame. Gundersen is a Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economic Association (AAEA).

Dr. Gundersen's Full Bio

Dr. Byron Johnson is Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University where he is the founding director of the Institute for Studies of Religion as well as the founding director of the Institute for Global Human Flourishing.  Johnson is a faculty affiliate of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University, a senior scientist at the Gallup Organization, and co-founder of the Religious Freedom Institute, based in Washington, DC. Professor Johnson is also a visiting distinguished professor in the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University.

Dr. Johnson's Full Bio

Jonathan de Wolff, Co-Founder, Chief Sustainability Officer, and Head of Corporate Philanthropy at inKind, an Austin-based financial technology company serving the hospitality industry, leads initiatives that strengthen independent restaurants and advance social and environmental responsibility. Their work focuses on building partnerships, supporting restaurant operators, and developing innovative solutions to challenges such as food waste, workforce well-being, and financial resilience. Previously, Jonathan founded a cybersecurity company that expanded secure internet access to more than seven million people across the Global South.