21Wilberforce is happy to announce that Knox Thames and Curtis L. Brown have been elected to its Board of Directors powerful straight away.
New board member, Knox Thames, is an American human legal rights lawyer, advocate, and author who has focused his job to advertising the rights of spiritual minorities and combatting persecution. Over his 20 decades of company in the U.S. authorities, Knox held a number of essential positions advocating for freedom of religion or belief, together with at the State Section and two unique U.S. authorities foreign policy commissions. Known for his nonpartisan technique to advocacy, the two the Obama and Trump administrations appointed Knox as the Particular Advisor for Spiritual Minorities in the Around East and South / Central Asia at the Point out Section. The 1st to serve in this specific envoy job, he obtained a civil services appointment to direct State Department attempts to assist religious minorities in these areas.
In 2023, Knox joined Pepperdine University as a Senior Fellow with the Caruso Faculty of Regulation and School of General public Plan. From Pepperdine’s DC campus, he directs the new system on World-wide Religion and Inclusive Societies. In addition, he is a Senior Viewing Skilled at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
New board member, Curtis L. Brown, has served as chair or member of the board of directors, lawyer or advisor of innumerable business, tutorial, specialist, civic and charitable businesses for in excess of 44 decades.
In advance of starting his practice of regulation in Dallas, Mr. Brown gained his CPA license and practiced in the Denver and New York Metropolis places of work of one of the most significant worldwide accounting corporations in which he was a Senior Tax Accountant for the 4th greatest business in the United States. He served as Founding Spouse of Brown, Baskin, Bickel and Brewer, Attorneys, in Dallas that represented publicly traded enterprises and banking institutions, as effectively as not-for-gain entities. He has served as outdoors Standard Counsel of quite a few organizations, which includes Interstate Battery Process of The united states.
Curtis served on the Judiciary Committee of the Dallas Bar Association and on the Board of Directors of the Waco Bar Affiliation. He at the moment serves as a member of the Board of Administrators and of the Executive Committee of the Art Centre of Waco.
Dr. Randy Dale has joined the employees as Director of Church Engagement, a new place for the organization. Randy will coordinate enhancement of the World Effect Partners software comprised of church buildings, religion-dependent institutions and other associates. Randy will assist President Randel Everett recruiting, coaching, and empowering World wide Impact Companions. This will further more 21 Wilberforce’s plans of network mobilization, leadership and advocacy teaching, and coalition making.
“21Wilberforce is honored to have Dr. Randy Dale signing up for our staff members as Director of Church Engagement. Randy’s knowledge as a prosecutor, university professor and minister has ready him to hook up with church buildings, establishments, and religious networks as we request to defend the persecuted and market world wide religious liberty for all men and women.
We are also delighted to add two popular defenders of spiritual freedom to our Board of Administrators, Knox Thames from Virginia, and Curtis Brown from Texas. Both carry their legal backgrounds, associations and enthusiasm for worldwide religious liberty to our Board.”
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About 21Wilberforce
21Wilberforce is a Christian intercontinental human legal rights nonprofit devoted to defending the dignity-affirming and universal appropriate to liberty of religion, belief and conscience for all people. We use William Wilberforce’s model framework for sustainable social change—helping interact and coordinate “top-down” policymaker motion with “bottom-up” grassroots mobilization, empowerment, and collective motion.
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