President of Global Business and Educational Consulting Group.Yildirim Sivar is a business owner and President of Global Business and Educational Consulting Group. He is quite active in the community and serves on the Boards of the Atlantic Institute of Jacksonville, ONEJAX Institute of UNF and Baptist Hospital Foundation. Before coming to Jacksonville, Yildirim served as chief of staff for the Secretary of Culture and Tourism in the Republic of Turkey. He earned his graduate degree at NYIT in New York. Yildirim is a SHI Fellow and lives in Mandarin Florida.

Sukhbir Singh is married with two sons raised in our Jacksonville community. He is a small business entrepreneur with a bachelor’s degree in Statistics and master’s in Computer Science.

Sukhbir and his wife Sargum are the founders of the Sikh Society of North East Florida and practice Sikhism as a path to humanity and salvation. He has been an architect in creating awareness and educating the Jacksonville community about Sikhism and Turbans through lectures, presentations in schools, colleges, universities, temples, churches, hospitals and more.  The Singh family is a strong believer of “There is One Father and we are all his children.”

Milesh Patel is a graduate student in the UNF History Program where he is involved with the UNF Interfaith Center. He serves as a student leader and a part of the Better Together team for them. Milesh has stayed involved for 3 years creating fresh event ideas that aimed to connect to a broader audience in UNF. He also works with the Better Together student leadership team encouraging their development through sharing ideas and encouraging others to facilitate conversations as well. Milesh grew up in a Hindu household but did not practice the religion himself, instead becoming agnostic. His interest in Christianity has led to him being the president of the Jacksonville Campus Ministry, which serves a Christian and Interfaith community. He has been trained at Interfaith America’s Leadership Summit.

Professor of Finance at University of North Florida

Parvez Ahmed is a former Fulbright Scholar and currently Professor of Finance at the Coggin College of Business, University of North Florida. His research work has appeared in several major finance journals. In addition he writes articles about Islam and the American Muslim experience. His articles have been published in several leading newspapers at home and abroad.Currently he is a member of Jacksonville’s Human Rights Commission. He also serves on the boards of Museum of Science and History, and the World Affairs Council of Jacksonville. In 2010 Folio Weekly named him “Person of the Year.” In 2014 he was awarded the Silver Medallion Humanitarian Award by OneJax. In 2015 he was named Arthur Vining Davis Fellow to the Aspen Ideas Festival.

Faculty Associate / Interfaith Studies

Lucinda Allen Mosher, Th.D., is a Christian moral theologian in the Anglican tradition. She serves concurrently as Faculty Associate in Interfaith Studies at Hartford Seminary, teaching courses on chaplaincy, religious diversity, and Christian-Muslim relations; Professor of Ecumenical, Interfaith, and Anglican Studies at Séminaire de Théologie d’Église Épiscopale d’Haïti; and Assistant Academic Director of the Building Bridges Seminar—an annual dialogue of Christian and Muslim scholars founded by the Archbishop of Canterbury and now under the stewardship of Georgetown University. She was the founding instructor for the annual Worldviews Seminar—an innovative introduction to America’s religious diversity held at the University of Michigan-Dearborn 2002-2012 Dr. Mosher is the author of Toward Our Mutual Flourishing: the Episcopal Church, Interreligious Relations, and Theologies of Religious Manyness (2012) and Faith in the Neighborhood—a book series on America’s religious diversity. A contributor to several scholarly journals, she is guest co-editor of a special issue of The Muslim World focusing on Hindu-Muslim relations. With David Marshall, she is co-editor of and contributor to Prayer: Christian and Muslim Perspectives (2013); Death, Resurrection, and Human Destiny: Christian and Muslim Perspectives (2014); The Community of Believers: Christian and Muslim Perspectives (2015); and God’s Creativity and Human Action: Christian and Muslim Perspectives (forthcoming 2016). Dr. Mosher has been a keynote speaker, workshop leader, or panelist in many venues in the US and abroad—including England, Turkey, Uganda, and Korea. An accomplished musician, her workshops sometimes combine her expertise in interreligious understanding with her training in theology and the arts. Dr. Mosher lives in Doctors Inlet, Florida.

Rev. Hutto is a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), having previously served Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City. In NYC, she was active in organizing Interfaith programs, including children’s programming at the 92nd St. Y, Muslim Sunday School development with the Cordoba House, and Interfaith Bible studies with Park Avenue Synagogue. After moving to Jacksonville in 2020, Rev. Hutto has been active with the local Daughters of Abraham Book Club.

Rev. Hutto is also an accomplished author, having written several children’s books, “The Day God Made Church” and “Paul and His Friends”, as well as contributing to various curricula.  Rev. Hutto is a Master of Divinity graduate from Duke University Divinity School and received an undergraduate degree from Wofford College. Her husband, Rev. Dr. B.J. Hutto, is the senior minister at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church. They have two children, Hannah Ruth and Elijah.

Founder, Local 2 Global

 McKinnon has a portfolio career as both a political campaign professional with several cycles of campaign and consulting experience as well as a licensed Professional Geologist with several years of experience in the environmental consulting industry. With a foundation in the sciences, he applies his technical approach and passion for advocacy to mission-driven community organizing. He also serves on the U.S. Green Building Council – Northeast Florida Board of Directors and as the Public Relations Chair for City of Jacksonville’s Keep Jacksonville Beautiful Commission. After growing up on a farm in South Carolina, he went on to get a degree in Geology from Clemson University and a masters degree in Geology from University of Georgia. Recently, he welcomed his daughter, Mara, into the world and hopes that the work he does makes the future a little more just and sustainable for her generation.

Pastor Regina Jackson is a native of Jacksonville Florida. She serves as a bi-vocational Pastor that is currently working in the mortgage and real estate industry with over 23 years’ experience.

She has been involved in ministry for over 20 years with experience in nursing home ministry, traveling gospel ministry, pastoral ministry and street evangelism ministry. She was ordained as a Pastor October 2012 and founded Restoration of Truth Ministries in Jacksonville, currently serving as the Senior Pastor. She also founded of Inspiritus Empowerment Center for Excellence that provides resources to the community which includes food, clothing, furniture, workshops, and education.

Regina has played an active part in the LGBTQIA community and believes that as faith leaders we must become a voice for any group who has been marginalize, disenfranchised, or oppressed.