Organizing Office and Consultants
Organizing Office (OO)
*The Coming to the Table organizing office is located at Eastern Mennonite University. The office has responsibility for overall leadership of the program, developing the CTTT approach and related training materials and conducting research. * The OO and consultant bios are below.
Amy Potter Czajkowski is the Program Director of Coming to the Table. She has been a teacher and trainer in the areas of conflict transformation, reconciliation, restorative justice and trauma awareness. She has also developed and managed a number of programs in these areas for the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. She started her career as a community mediator and mediation and conflict resolution trainer. She went on to develop and coordinate a university mediation and facilitation center at Eastern Mennonite University. Most recently she has been doing research, writing and training related to reconciliation in post-war Sierra Leone and post-enslavement United States. Amy holds an MA in Conflict Transformation with a concentration in mediation and facilitation from Eastern Mennonite University.
Sha Jackson is the Program Associate for the Coming to the Table program. She is a recent graduate of Syracuse University’s Magazine, Newspaper and Online journalism program. She manages the organization and content featured on the CTTT site. She has a B.A. from Mary Baldwin College in English and African American Studies.
David Anderson Hooker is the Director for Research and Training for Coming to the Table. He is an associate professor at Eastern Mennonite University, a mediator, community organizer and peace builder with over 20 years experience. He has worked in Bosnia, Croatia, Cuba, Myanmar, Nigeria, Somaliland, Sudan and Zimbabwe. He is the former Vice President for Community Building for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Atlanta Civic Site. In that role, he worked with historically disenfranchised communities in the Atlanta (GA) inner city. He is a graduate of Emory University’s School of Law (JD), the Candler School of Theology (MDiv), the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (MPH and MPA), Washington University in St. Louis (MA Minority Mental Health) and Morehouse College (BS).
Susan Hutchison is a co-founder of Coming to the Table and Coordinator of the CTTT Community Practice Board. She is a descendant of Thomas Jefferson and many other southern slaveholders. Susan treasures her several-year relationships with Hemings/Jefferson cousins, as well as more recent connections with African American cousins related through a slave holding ancestor from Mississippi. She leads groups on listening, emotional healing, and parenting, and lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and son.
Consultants
Sharon Leslie Morgan is a marketing communications consultant nationally recognized as a pioneer in multicultural marketing. With more than twenty-five years of professional experience, she built the communications departments of two major multicultural marketing agencies and has enjoyed client relationships with many international icons such as Coca-Cola and Wal-Mart. She has lived for extended periods of time in Jamaica, South Africa and France. An avid genealogist, she has been researching her family for more than thirty years and, in 2007, established www.OurBlackAncestry.com to help others research African American family histories. Morgan is a founder of the Black Public Relations Society and a member of the Public Relations Society of America and Mensa.
