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Linda Ikeda has been a licensed marriage, family and child therapist since 1993. She has been in the Bay Area since 1978 and was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from the University of Washington in 1972 and worked as a pediatric and newborn intensive care nurse in a variety of hospital settings for fifteen years. She keeps her RN license active and up to date. Linda earned her master’s degree in counseling from the University of San Francisco in 1989. She also has studied at Fuller Theological Seminary, Regent’s University and Princeton Seminary. She has received specialty training in EMDR. Other areas of specialty training received are: play therapy, sand tray therapy, working with survivors of sexual abuse, dealing with issues of domestic violence, and narrative approaches to therapy. Linda has led women's’, adolescents’, staff and children’s groups. She has conducted workshops for church retreats, parenting groups, counseling interns and trainees, and multi-cultural community centers on a variety of topics, some of which are : self-esteem, parenting of adolescents, parenting of special needs children, attachment disorder, adolescent psychopathology and integrating faith with psychology. Though she works with a variety of cases, she is especially fond of working with children, adolescents and adult survivors of childhood trauma. In addition to her clinical work, Linda has been involved in a teaching, training and therapy ministry with the Chi Rho Corporation which offers assistance to the House of New Life, an orphanage for HIV+ children, in Constanta, Romania; in Nepal; and with Empower International in Uganda. Linda's program for caregivers of abused, neglected and abandoned children, Created to Belong, is in great demand both in African and the United States. Linda's Christian faith informs all that she is and all that she does. She and her husband have been married over 28 years and have two grown sons. She taught in Uganda in 2007 and 2008.

Secretary/treasurer

Sarah E. Nutter holds an MBA and a Ph.D. in Accounting from Michigan State University. She is the department chair of Accounting at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Since 2006 she has served as the Treasurer on the Board of Directors for Empower Ministries. Dr. Nutter also serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, DC. She is a long-standing member of McLean Presbyterian Church in McLean, Virginia where she has taught Sunday school classes for children and adults.

Sarah, along with her husband David, has three sons and three grandchildren and lives in Herndon, Virginia. dave and sarah

Carrie Miles holds a doctorate in social and organizational psychology from the University of Chicago, and wrote her thesis on religion, social change, and the roles of women and men, a subject on which she continues to do research. Her new book, The Redemption of Love: Rescuing Marriage and Sexuality from the Economics of a Fallen World was published by Brazos Press in 2006. Her previous book, Male and Female in Christ (with Laurence R. Iannaccone and Linda Ikeda), has been reprinted in Kampala and has being translated into Kirundi, the local African language spoken in Rwanda and Burundi. Her latest, New Man, New Woman, New Life, is the basis for the Empower seminars. Dr. Miles is a senior research fellow at the Center for the Economic Study of Religion at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and a non-resident fellow at the Institute for the Studies of Religion at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. She is married to economist Laurence Iannaccone, and they have two children.

Director, Created to Belong