Sponsors
Community Peacemaker Teams is sponsored by the following denominations, agencies and groups. Sponsors are represented on CPT’s Steering Committee (governing body).
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is CPT’s governing body and functions as a Board of Directors. It is comprised of representatives from CPT’s Sponsors and Peacemaker Corps, as well as members At-Large.
Wilson Tan identifies with the Mennonite denomination and peacemaking theology. He holds an executive MBA from Kellogg School of Management and is on the Administration and Development Subcommittee as an At-Large Member who provides long-range financial stewardship and investment management counsel. He has lived and worked in the US, China, and Singapore.
Wilson Tan
Member at-large | Treasurer
Nathan Perrin (he/him/his) is a pastor in Chicagoland, US, serving at Lombard Mennonite Church. He is a doctoral student studying community development at Northern Seminary and holds an MA in Quaker Studies from Barclay College. He currently attends Downers Grove Friends Meeting. He enjoys writing fiction, vinyl, and long walks. He is the Friends United Meeting Representative and has been on the Steering Committee since October 2019, serving on the Program Subcommittee. You can find more information about him here.
Nathan Perrin
Friends United Meeting | Co-Chair
Following a thirty-four-year career as a Registered Nurse, Esther Kern joined CPT in 2004. Since then, she has worked with CPT teams in Iraqi Kurdistan, Palestine, Colombia, the USA/Mexico Borderlands, and the Turtle Island Solidarity Network, which has taken her all over Canada. She also served as CPT Canada Coordinator from the Toronto office for eight years. Interspersed with CPT work, she has participated in humanitarian aid missions to Russia and Cuba and seventeen medical missions to Honduras. She works as a CPT Reservist and is a member of Mennonite Church Canada's "Palestine/Israel Network" and "Canadians Stand Up For Palestinian Children's Rights." In her "spare" time, she works as a Tour Guide at Museum London.
Esther Kern
Mennonite Church Canada
Chrissy Stonebraker-Martinez was raised in the legacy industrial city of Youngstown, Ohio and is proud to be a community organizer currently in the greater Cleveland area with the InterReligious Task Force on Central America. She serves on the Personnel Subcommittee of CPT Steering Committee. Chrissy devotes passion for social justice to their union-laborer father and concern for Latin American solidarity to their mother, who found refuge in the US from Medellin, Colombia. Chrissy received a BA in International and Financial Management from Hiram College and an MA/MEd in Higher Education Administration and Counseling from Kent State University.
Chrissy Stonebraker-Martinez
Member at-large
Gisela Cardozo (she/her) is a human rights defender from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has experience in the fields of civil society and academics with emphasis in education, social memory and migration from a human rights perspective. She joined the Steering Committee in 2020 and she is part of the Program Subcommittee.
Gisela Cardozo
Member at-large
Benjamin Isaak-Krauß (he/him) is a Mennonite pastor in Frankfurt, Germany passionate for courageous peacemaking and costly solidarity. He first learned about CPT at Mennonite World Conference Assembly in Paraguay 2009, and has participated in delegations to Palestine and Lesvos. Since joining the Steering Committee in 2020 representing the German Mennonite Peace Committee (Deutsches Mennonitisches Friedenskomittee ), he is a part of the Personnel Subcomittee.
Benjamin Isaak-Krauß
Deutsches Mennonitisches Friedenskommittee / German Mennonite Peace Committee
James Thomas is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). He trained with CPT in 2010, and has served on numerous occasions with the Palestine team. He currently chairs the Personnel Subcommittee on the steering committee. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Education, Policy and Administration and retired two years ago from the faculty of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary of Lenoir-Rhyne University, Columbia, SC. He currently serves an ELCA congregation in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.
James Thomas
Member at-large
Rizwan Shoukat
Member at-large
Juan Carlos Rojas Ramos is from Cali, Colombia. He studied Philosophy and Theology at the Javeriana University in Bogotá. He was ordained as a Catholic priest in 2006 and belongs to the congregation of the Basilian Fathers. During his theology training he was part of the InterCongregational Comission of Justice and Peace of the Religious Confederacy of Colombia, accompanying peasant communities. In April of 2021, he joined the Steering Committee and serves on the Program Subcommittee.
Juan Carlos Rojas Ramos
Basilian General Council
Ruth Noel joined the Steering Committee in November 2019 as the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship representative and currently chairs the Program Subcommittee. She is honored to be on this journey of actively working for peace and justice and to be undoing oppressions with CPT.
Ruth Noel
Presbyterian Peace Fellowship | Co-Chair
This corp representative remains anonymous for security reasons.
AMS Team Member
CPT Corp Representative
Christy Crouse (she/her) lives in Bogotá, Colombia and is the Church of the Brethren representative to the Steering Committee, serving on the Program Subcommittee. Christy is a U.S. attorney and focuses on international human rights and immigration law in her work as a legal researcher for a human rights NGO. Christy is a member of the Church of the Brethren and has participated in several of the church’s peace-related programs, through which she connected with CPT.
Christy Crouse
Church of the Brethren
