List of contributors - Judson Press

About the ContributorsOwen C. Cardwell Jr., MDiv, is a PhD student in the MLK InterdisciplinaryStudies program at Union Institute and University inCincinnati, Ohio. He also is pastor and founder of New CanaanInternational Church in Richmond, Virginia, and executive directorof New Jubilee Educational and Family Life Center, Inc.Elwood Gray Jr., MDiv, DMin (earned), was ordained by the FirstBaptist Church of Raleigh, North Carolina. Dr. Gray is presentlyPastor of Peace in the Valley Baptist Church in Silver Spring, Maryland,and founder and president of the National Coalition of PrisonMinistries. He holds membership with the American CorrectionalAssociation, Howard University School of Divinity Alumni Association,the National Association for the Advancement of ColoredPeople, and the Black Ministers Conference of Montgomery County,Maryland.Deborah Jackson-Meyers, DMin, was ordained by the Sabbath DayAdventist Agape SDA Church of Brooklyn, New York. Elder Dr.Jackson-Meyers serves on the pastoral staff of the Upperroom FellowshipCenter of Columbia, Maryland, and is founder and executivedirector of Breaking the Chain Foundation.Veronica Crawford Lynch, MSW, PhD, received her graduate andpostgraduate degrees from Howard University School of SocialWork. She is a member of Metropolitan Baptist Church in Washington,DC, and is currently working as a program evaluation researchconsultant for a child welfare agency in Baltimore, Maryland.Madeline McClenney-Sadler, MDiv, PhD, holds her doctorate inreligion (Hebrew Bible) from Duke University and a master’s fromHoward University. Dr. McClenney-Sadler is president and founderof Exodus Foundation.org, a reentry ministry with a national andglobal vision. She was ordained in the Baptist tradition and is currentlya member of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Charlotte, NorthCarolina.205

206 MINISTRY WITH PRISONERS & FAMILIESThe late Lonnie McLeod Jr., MDiv, DMin, was ordained in theUnited Church of Christ and served as senior pastor of the Churchof the Living Hope in East Harlem, New York. Dr. McLeod alsoserved as president of the Exodus Transitional Community, Inc. Hewas an accomplished public speaker, a counselor to emotionallychallenged youth, and a social and criminal justice activist.Sylvia Moseley-Robinson, MDiv, was ordained at Omega BaptistChurch where she serves as associate minister and leader of the socialjustice ministry. Currently enrolled in the Payne Bakke Doctorof Ministry Transformational Leadership program, Rev. Moseley-Robinson is also director of the Montgomery County VolunteerJail Chaplaincy Ministry, board member of Oasis House Ministry(which assists women trapped in the sex industry), and employee ofGoodwill Easter Seals Miami Valley Ex-Offender Reentry Program.Keith Reeves, PhD, is associate professor of political science andpublic policy and faculty director of the Center for Social andPolicy Studies at Swarthmore College. He teaches decision-makingskills to incarcerated black males in several Pennsylvania correctionalinstitutions and is author of Voting Hopes or Fears? and theforthcoming The Declining Significance of Black Males.Alfreda “Frieda” Robinson-Dawkins is a tireless advocate forwomen in the criminal justice system, after enduring the same systemfor ten years. She holds master’s degrees in special educationand counseling and currently directs the National Women’s PrisonProject in Baltimore, Maryland. A member of the Calvary BaptistChurch and a Weinberg Fellow, she is a global trainer and OffenderWorkforce Development Specialist (OWDS).Michael R. Smith Sr., MDiv, D.Min., was ordained in the AmericanBaptist Churches USA. He has served as prison chaplain instate and federal prisons for more than twenty years. Dr. Smith isfounder of Cross of Christ Ministries, which trains and educateschurches in responding to crime and incarceration and promotesbiblical discipleship.Karen K. Swanson, EdD, is director of the Institute for Prison Ministriesat the Billy Graham Center, Wheaton College, and assistantprofessor in the Christian formation and ministries department. Dr.Swanson serves at Blanchard Alliance Church, Warrenville, Illinois,and is coauthor of Coming Home! A Guide for Those Receiving aLoved One Back from Prison or Jail.