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Jim Jewell | Jim Ball | Rusty Pritchard
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Jim Jewell
Campaign Director, Evangelical Climate Initiative
Chief Operating Officer, Evangelical Environmental Network
Jim Jewell is campaign director of the Evangelical Climate Initiative and chief operating officer of the Evangelical Environmental Network.
Jewell is also co-owner of Rooftop MediaWorks, a public relations firm with clients in the faith-based community. He has been involved in the communications and management of Christian organizations and causes for 30 years. Rooftop managed the national media launch of the Evangelical Climate Initiative in 2006.
Jewell has been an executive with three respected nonprofit organizations – World Vision, Prison Fellowship, and The Trinity Forum – and also has provided public relations direction for dozens of client organizations. He was the chief-of-staff for Charles Colson for more than a decade, and the director of communications for Promise Keepers’ Stand in the Gap in 1997 and Billy Graham’s Amsterdam 2000.
He has a B.A. in communications from Biola University and a M.A. in Mass Communications from California State University, Fullerton. He is an adjunct professor of communications at Kennesaw State University (Georgia).
Jewell and his wife Debbie live in Suwanee, Georgia, north of Atlanta, with two daughters and a son.
Rev. Jim Ball, Ph.D.
Spokesperson, Evangelical Climate Initiative
President, Evangelical Environmental Network
Rev. Jim Ball, Ph.D., an ordained Baptist minister, is the national spokesperson for the Evangelical Climate Initiative and president and CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN). Rev. Ball also serve s as publisher of Creation Care magazine.
Time magazine named Rev. Ball one of its five climate change “innovators” in its April 3, 2006 edition, and in 2005, Rolling Stone magazine named him one of its 25 environmental “Warriors and Heroes.”
Ball has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, American Morning, Crossfire and Headline News as well as Fox News’ The Big Story and Fox and Friends. Rev. Ball has also appeared on ABC’s World News Tonight and PBS’ NOW Show with Bill Moyers.
Rev. Ball became EEN’s Executive Director in January 2000 and was recently named President of the organization. Prior to that, he taught at Montclair State University in New Jersey and was Minister of Christian Education at the First Baptist Church of Beloit, Wisconsin.
He holds a BA from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, a Master of Divinity from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and a Ph.D. from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.
Rev. Ball lives with his wife Kara in Vienna, Virginia.
Lowell (Rusty) Pritchard, Ph.D.
Spokesperson, Evangelical Climate Initiative
National Director of Outreach, Evangelical Environmental Network
Dr. Lowell “Rusty” Pritchard is a spokesperson of the Evangelical Climate Initiative and the national director of outreach for the Evangelical Environmental Network. He serves as the editor of Creation Care magazine, EEN’s quarterly publication. He is also an adjunct faculty member of Emory University’s Department of Environmental Studies. Dr. Pritchard has been with EEN since 2006.
Prior to coming to the ENN he worked with the National Wildlife Federation, which represents hunters and anglers, on developing voluntary, market-based programs for conservation on private agriculture and forestry lands. He also taught full-time at Emory University in Environmental Studies, a program he helped create in 1999. He has taught courses in natural resource economics, public health, resource use and management, environmental justice, ecological economics and environmental decision-making under uncertainty. From 1994 to 1999, he was a program officer with an international global change research program studying the effects of land-use and land-cover changes on the atmospheric system.
Dr. Pritchard holds degrees from Duke University (B.S., zoology) and University of Florida (Ph.D., resource economics; M.S., environmental engineering sciences).
Dr. Pritchard lives in Atlanta with his wife and three children. He is a regular speaker on creation care, economics and discipleship at Christian colleges, churches, youth and college groups and community organizations.