What We Are All
About
Our History
WE BELIEVE IN A WORLD WHERE ALL PEOPLE FLOURISH
UNDIVIDED formally began its work in 2016. While our personal stories vary, the thread that ties us together is a collective of people who have roots in the American Evangelical church and are troubled by the racial harm and injustices we see today.
Together, we saw the gap in book studies and DEI trainings that have limited lasting impact and often cause harm. With our diverse, collective expertise, our team has built experiential programming designed to take businesses, organizations, and churches from isolation into community and from inertia to action. The experiences bring people together to learn from each other with honesty, integrity, and vulnerability, moving them toward awareness, through agitation, and into action.
We believe in a world where all people flourish, and human dignity is a gift we all enjoy. We’re creative and forward-thinking while remaining rooted in the spiritual heritage of hopeful historical movements for freedom and justice. So let’s do more than listen and learn. Let’s invite communities to repair racial harm, heal racial trauma, and realize racial equity.
Let’s be UNDIVIDED!
Our People
OUR BOARD
Chuck Mingo
Board Chair & Co Founder
Chuck is a co founder of UNDIVIDED and served as the founding CEO for four years. Through his passion for justice and racial reconciliation, Chuck transformed a congregational training into a national movement. Chuck’s leadership has inspired and mobilized thousands from diverse backgrounds around the nation.
Chuck teaches and consults for churches and organizations around the country on a variety of topics related to race relations and racial justice.
Chuck also serves as a teaching pastor at one of the largest churches in America, Crossroads Church. Prior to being a pastor, Chuck spent nine years in the corporate world at Procter & Gamble. He earned his Bachelors in Business Administration at Duquesne University.
Chuck and his wife are busy raising three children and call Cincinnati, OH home.
ALVIN HERRING
Reverend Herring retired after serving five years as the leader of Faith in Action, the largest grassroots, faith-based organizing network in the United States. The nonpartisan organization works with 1,000 religious congregations in more than 200 cities and towns through its 46 local and state federations. He previously served as Director of Racial Equity and Community Engagement with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, as Dean of Students and Assistant Vice President for Student Life for the University of Louisville, as Executive Director of the Working Interfaith Network in Baton Rouge, La., and as Executive Director of the Muhammad Ali Institute for Peace and Justice in Louisville, Ky.
Rev Herring is an ordained African Methodist Episcopal minister.
Charla Weiss
Having lived in 2 countries and seven U.S. states, Charla Weiss views UNDIVIDED as a perfect place for her curiosity and appreciation for people, culture, and change. Charla retired from one of the largest companies of almost 17,000 employees in Cincinnati, Ohio as the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Prior to moving to Cincinnati, Charla lived in the San Francisco/Bay Area where she worked an Executive Director for several San Francisco/East Bay organizations. She has also lived in Sydney, Australia, and Hong Kong for almost a decade. Dr. Weiss earned a master’s degree from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan.
OUR STAFF
Troy Jackson
Executive Director
Community organizer, pastor, leader and writer, Troy Jackson, has been with UNDIVIDED since its founding. He is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and earned his PH.D in U.S. history from the University of Kentucky.
Troy’s book Becoming King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of a National Leader (The University Press of Kentucky, 2008) explores the critical role the grassroots Montgomery Movement played in the development of Dr. King. His other publications include his work as an editor on The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume VI:Advocate of the Social Gospel (September 1948-March 1963) (University of California Press, 2007). With their children grown, Troy and his wife moved to a cabin outside of Cincinnati, OH with their two dogs, Pip and Pico.
Heather Bowman
Chief of Staff
Elizabeth Cronlund
Partnership Development Manager
Vincent Lam
Training Program Manager
Natalie Lundstrom
Communications Strategist + Curator
Caroline Max
Development Manager
Rachel Warden
Training Program Manager
Our Core Values
We are wholehearted followers of Jesus who are grounded in self-giving love, guided by Scripture, committed to spiritual formation, led by the Spirit, and passionate about the Church.
COURAGE
We stand firmly in our convictions and lean humbly into our concessions.
JOY
We cultivate joy in our work so that our souls thrive.
INVESTMENT
We commit to learning in relationship and investing in people for racial healing.
HUMILITY
We serve our team and submit to this mission with purpose.
