Sheree Reece
Sheree Reece is the Global Missions Director at Resurrection, A United Methodist Church, where she has served in global missions leadership for the past 15 years. She also helped launch a nonprofit focused on community development, capacity building, and mindset change. Passionate about connecting people and organizations, Sheree collaborates with innovative partners to create long-term, sustainable impact. She is dedicated to helping individuals discover their strength
Hunter Farrell
Hunter Farrell worked for over thirty years as a missionary in DR Congo and Peru, the director of World Mission for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and a teacher of mission and intercultural studies. He speaks fluent Spanish, French and Tshiluba and often accompanies and interprets for immigrant neighbors. He is the co-author, with Balajiedlang Khyllep, of Freeing Congregational Mission: A Practical Vision for Companionship, Cultural Humility & Co-Development (InterVarsity Press, January 2022).
Jacob Lierz
Emmanuel Nabieu
Cross-Cultural Partnership Strategist | Global Care Reform Advocate | Author | Speaker
Emmanuel “Nabs” Nabieu is a cross-cultural partnership strategist, nonprofit leader, global care reform advocate, author, speaker, and doctoral researcher focused on strengthening sustainable global partnerships through ethical collaboration, shared leadership, and long-term community impact.
Originally from Sierra Leone, Nabs brings both lived experience and systems thinking to conversations around mission, poverty, partnership, and social impact. Through his work, he explores how partnerships succeed or fail based on the alignment between intention, trust, culture, power, and real-world outcomes.
He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) with a specialization in nonprofit governance and leadership, where his research examines governance structures and sustainability relationships within cross-cultural nonprofit partnerships, particularly in post-conflict, resource-constrained, and fragile contexts.
He is passionate about building bridges between cultures, strengthening locally led solutions, and helping the next generation lead with humility, wisdom, and shared purpose.
Barak Laub
Barak first went to India and Nepal in 2008, he spent just over 10 months in South East Asia before moving to Germany to study Political Science and Linguistics at Goethe Universitat. He later attended Columbia University in New York specializing in Behavioral Economics and Sustainable Development. After graduating he returned to South Asia to film Volunteers Needed. When not working on Volunteers Needed he consults on digital startups, makes the map of Carmel-by-the-Sea, volunteers with Monterey County Search and Rescue and enjoys hiking, biking and trail running with his wife, daughter and dog.