Speakers

	Darren Calhoun Darren is an Associate Fellow with Evangelicals for Social Action and the worship leader at Chicago’s Urban Village Church as well as for conferences like Q Christian Fellowship and The Reformation Project. He's also a sought-after speaker and workshop leader, blogger and activist working to help communities and churches become more inclusive of a diversity of people and expressions, as an authentic reflection of love and justice.

	Leslie Michele Leslie is a classically trained musician steeped in music that has grown out of the Black American experience, and has performed as a solo artist all over the world. She has a strong theater background and has dedicated herself to creating performances that help bring about the healing and restoration of the world. Along with singing with The Many, she is a worship leader at Willow Chicago.

	Gary Rand Gary, the other co-director of Plural Guild, was, until recently, director of music and worship at McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago. A veteran worship pastor, workshop leader, and songwriter, he is the music producer for The Many. He is a graduate of Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and holds a DM from Northwestern University.

	Hannah Rand Hanna, an award-winning singer/songwriter, is a recent graduate of the songwriting program at Belmont University in Nashville. She began writing songs about compassion, justice, inclusion and a world where all belong when she was just 13, and garnered national acclaim in 2013, winning a Grammy Foundation contest with her song “Start Over.” Along with writing for her solo career, she writes most of the music for The Many.

	Lenora Rand Lenora writes the lyrics for The Many and is co-director of The Plural Guild, the music/arts/liturgy resource group which produces The Many, crafting words and experiences to help people worship in ways that more deeply reflect a peaceful, just and open expression of faith. Having spent over 25 years as a creative director at one of the world’s largest ad agencies, she is now also running SmallGood, a strategy and creative consultancy for businesses and organizations trying to grow more good in the world.