Who's at the Table

Denominations, networks, and partners organizing together.

Watershed Faith includes both longstanding and emerging denominations within the broader Mainline Protestant tradition, Peace Church traditions, and the advocacy and organizing networks that partner alongside them.

At the table

Partners

  • Alliance of Baptists
  • American Baptist Home Mission Society
  • American Friends Service Committee
  • Baptist Joint Committee
  • The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
  • Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
  • The Episcopal Church
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
  • Faith in Action
  • Faith in Public Life
  • Gamaliel Network
  • Indiana Organizing Project
  • Latino Christian National Network
  • National Council of Churches
  • Sojourners / SojoAction
  • United Church of Christ
  • United Methodist Church

Additional denominational and ecumenical partners are actively engaged in conversation with Watershed Faith and are expected to join the table as the initiative unfolds.

Partners seated around a long table in discussion
Leadership

Led by experienced faith and organizing leaders.

Principal Convener

Michael-Ray Mathews

Strategy, relationships, and overall direction.

Operations Lead

Alia Zaki-Ludwig

Operations, convening logistics, and organizational stewardship.

Lead Organizer · Detention Center Accountability Campaign

Michael Woolf

Clergy and congregational organizing, campaign strategy, and accountability.

Communications Coordinator

Hojung Lee

Communications, storytelling, and resource development.

The wider coalition

The seven streams of Powered by Faith.

Watershed Faith is one of seven faith streams organizing in coordination across the coalition.

  • Black Church
  • Catholic
  • Evangelical
  • Jewish
  • Loosely Affiliated
  • Mainline Protestant
  • Muslim
Consulting partners

Strategy, research, and communications support.

Organizing, campaign & political strategy

Give Light Consulting

Matt Hammer, Principal

Research and collateral design

Hattaway Communications

Media and narrative strategy

The Raben Group
Faith in Democracy
Freedom Road

There is room
at this table.

Bring your congregation, your network, your moral voice into this moment.