About Us

As a mission integration healthcare executive, spiritual director, and hospital chaplain, Brent has facilitated seminars on effective dialogue techniques, ethics, human trafficking response, the art of reflection, and leadership training for thousands of educators, physicians, nurses, and healthcare administrators. He has enjoyed working with leading resilience studies researchers to create  workshops for healthcare staff and contributing to the ongoing formation of chaplains and spiritual directors through mentorship, education, and retreat ministry. He is a contributing author for  Presence, Journal of Spiritual Direction, and Franciscan Media. Prior to domestic ministry, Brent served as a nonprofit consultant and Fulbright scholar in Uganda, which led to HIV testing, AIDS medication, and safe water access for thousands among rural villages. Brent has studied multiple philosophies of dialogue, and as the Chair of a hospital ethics committee, he honed the skills for dialoguing across polarities in highly charged situations. Hallmarks of his formation have included a 30-day Ignation retreat, 5-month monastic formation, Master of Divinity studies at Santa Clara, and St. Vincent de Paul volunteer service. However, he can still be baited by the dares and heckles of his three children to go rope swinging into the Allegany River on summer days (and even some November ones!)

Jennifer Cox currently serves as the Program Director, for Dignity Health’s Family Medicine Residency, Medical Safe Haven clinics located in Sacramento, Redding and Northridge, CA.  This innovative model provides trauma-informed care, and equitable access to identified victims and survivors of human trafficking. Jennifer has served in healthcare for over 22 years, including 5 years as an Executive Director for a non-profit community resource center and clinic. Jennifer served 23 years as women’s and community outreach minister in Davis, Ca.

    Jennifer’s passion is training healthcare teams and innovating paths of access to healing and health to those impacted by trauma. As a survivor and subject matter expert on trauma and a highly trained professional working in the field of human trafficking, Jennifer has developed programs and facilitated local and national trainings for over 15,000 individuals including healthcare, law enforcement, educational institutions; including law schools and medical schools, and has been honored to speak for numerous faith based and social service organization forums.

     Jennifer has served on 7 nonprofit boards and has been part of global humanitarian efforts serving refugees in Kosovo, and underserved communities in Brazil and Mexico. Jennifer carries a degree is in Business Leadership from the Forbes School of Business and Technology. 

    Jennifer is a mother to three incredibly kind adult children, step mother to three, a mother in-law to one. She is blessed to be married to Chris, the love of her life. 

Drawing from wisdom and experience from her black and Indigenous heritage, Tamara has facilitated community dialogue on issues related to race relations, mental health, and resilience.  As the founder of V-COPS (Veterans Civilian Observation Patrol) Inc, Tamara rallied the community in support of homeless veterans. She currently serves as a psychiatric & healthcare chaplain with Sutter Health, and has facilitated training for healthcare practitioners and the broader Sacramento community on Applied Suicide Intervention Skills(ASIST), brainspotting, trauma informed care and grief coaching for traditional grief, historical grief, and cultural grief,    

 Tamara currently serves as a member of the Sacramento Superior Court’s Community Engagement and Fairness Committee whose mission is to provide equal access to justice for all regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability or socio-economic status. 

       Tamara has served on several healthcare ethics committees and as the Chair of the UC Davis chaplain residency program.  She also continues her work as a television content creator for the Fellow Human Being Radio & Television Network. 

Tamara holds her MsPsy degree from Capella University, a BS in Human Development from San Diego Christian College, and is a graduate of the Ohio School of Broadcasting. She is grateful for her family; her husband and 2 beautiful human children (along with one fur child!)

Ben serves as the Director of the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago. He is nearing completion of his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in development economics and political economy. He works primarily in collaboration with and in support of local government and civil society partners, and strives to conduct experiments at-scale while minimizing deviations from normal operations. Married and the beaming father of two giggly children, Ben enjoys baby carrots, coffee, Ultimate Frisbee, and remembering when he used to do triathlons prior to the arrival of aforementioned giggles. 

Cassie brings her wisdom gleaned from 30 years of experience as a K-college educator. She has served as an interfaith hospital chaplain for 10 years, whose creative ideas transformed methods of key mission integration activities for the hospital where she served. Using her planning and strategic mindset, Cassie has organized numerous events for educators, students, and has served as one of the lead coordinators for the Association of Professional Chaplains network in Sacramento, CA. While many rely on their own quality of presence to bring healing; Cassie passes that responsibility on to her service dog, who provide joy to young and old wherever they go.