Executive Leadership Peer Coaching Circle

Connect with leaders who understand the unique challenges of CCD

Receive advising and peer coaching from other executive leaders

Gain practical and actionable insights to enhance your leadership

Rev. Stephanie Ann Vander Lugt, MA, MSW, LCSWA

Stephanie Ann is a minister and licensed clinical social worker associate who works at the intersection of justice, faith, healing, ecology, and personal/communal transformation. Her background is in community development and violence prevention, including ten years working with incarcerated women and returning citizens. She is the co-founder and executive director of Kinship Plot, an organization that cultivates resonant relationships through collaborative learning, contemplative action, formative artistry, slow cultivation, and liberatory welcome. She is an ordained minister in the Presbytery of the Central Carolinas. Her current research explores connection to nature as a source of healing as well as access to nature as a social determinant of health.

Jonathan Haskell

Jonathan Haskell has been involved in CCDA since 2013 and has served as the executive director of YOKE Youth Ministries since 2015. YOKE transforms neighborhoods by mentoring middle school students, equipping young leaders, engaging local churches, and enriching local schools. Learning and applying the APEST model has been transformative in Jonathan’s life and ministry, both in his work and church ministry contexts. He has helped numerous individuals, churches, and nonprofit ministries understand and apply the concepts in their contexts as well. In his free time Jonathan coaches soccer at Vine Middle and Austin East High Schools, chairs Knoxville’s Police Advisory and Review Committee, and serves as the local network connector for CCDA Knoxville.

Dayna Carr, MA, Rev

Dayna Carr is a neighborhood-based practitioner in Greensboro, NC.  Since 2004 she has been pursuing Kingdom priorities of faith, love, and justice in her under-resourced community.  Over the years she has led multi-ethnic youth ministries, launched a private Christian school for low-income children, trained ministry leaders on trauma-informed practices, and most recently, launched a community center.  Dayna is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University Seminary with a Master of Arts in Transformational Urban Leadership.  She is the Executive Director of Glenwood Together, and adjunct professor at North Carolina A&T State University, and an ordained pastor in the Wesleyan Church.  Best of all, she is the proud auntie of five nieces and nephews.