Board of Directors
Aaron is the Assistant Professor of Social Ethics and Community Leadership and Director of Academic Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness at Saint Paul School of Theology. He comes to Saint Paul after working as the Associate Presbyter of Congregational Vitality at Heartland Presbytery. Before that, he was at The Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, where he served as the Associate Director and Adjunct Associate Professor of Ethics and Society. An ordained Teaching Elder in the PC(USA), Aaron has worked as the Executive Director and then Special Advisor of Religions for Peace USA, where he helped launch a national anti-Islamophobia program based in the southeast, along with organizing national senior religious leaders on issues of common concern such as mass incarceration, immigration and climate change. He cut his teeth in organizing with the C.O.P.S. / Metro Alliance of the Industrial Areas Foundation in San Antonio, Tx. Aaron is active in his denomination, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and has been an active participant in international ecumenical and interfaith organizations, such as the World Council of Reformed Churches and the World Council of Churches.
