Michael Brown serves as president of Payne Theological Seminary. He is an internationally recognized biblical scholar and minister. Prior to joining Payne, Brown served as associate dean of Wabash College and was the director of the Malcolm X Institute on Black Studies (2011-2013).

Brown has authored four books, What They Don't Tell You: A Survivor's Guide to Academic Biblical Studies, Blackening of the Bible: The Aims of African American Biblical Scholarship, The Lord's Prayer through North African Eyes: A Window into Early Christianity, and The Lord's Prayer and God's Vision for the World: Finding Your Purpose through Prayer. In addition, he was a leading contributor to the New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible.

Brown holds MDiv and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago.

Mai-Anh Le Tran serves as vice president for academic affairs, academic dean, and associate professor of religious education and practical theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. She is an internationally recognized leader in theological education, scholar, and expert in pedagogy.

A selection of Tran's writings can be found in the Religious Education Journal, Christians in Education, The New Interpreter's Bible Pastor's Bible Study series, Ways of Being, Ways of Reading: Asian American Biblical Interpretation, and Teaching for a Culturally Diverse and Racially Just World. Her latest book, Reset the Heart: Unlearning Violence, Relearning Hope, was published by Abingdon Press in May 2017.

Tran is a member and past president of the Religious Education Association: Association of Professors, Practitioners, and Researchers in Religious Education. She is also an editorial board member for Horizons in Religious Education book series and was consulting editor for the Encyclopedia of Christian Education. She is a member of the Association of Practical Theology, the International Academy of Practical Theology, and contributes to the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, and the Association of Theological Schools initiatives on faculty development.

Tran holds a PhD in Christian education and congregational studies from Garrett-Evangelical and a Master of Religious Education degree from Southern Methodist University. She is an ordained elder and member of the California-Nevada Conference of The United Methodist Church.

Susan Abraham is dean of faculty, vice president of academic affairs, and professor of theology and postcolonial cultures at Pacific School of Religion.

She is the author of Identity, Ethics, and Nonviolence in Postcolonial Theory: A Rahnerian Theological Assessment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and co-editor of Shoulder to Shoulder: Frontiers in Catholic Feminist Theology (Fortress, 2009).

Ongoing research projects include issues in theological education and formation, interfaith and interreligious initiatives for social transformation, theology and political theory, religion and media, global Catholicism, and Christianity between colonialism and postcolonialism.

Abraham brings wide experience and knowledge of higher education and institutional practices through her past affiliations with St. Bonaventure University, Harvard Divinity School, and Loyola Marymount University. Her publications, courses, and presentations weave practical theological insights from her experience of working as a youth minister in Mumbai, India, with theoretical perspectives from postcolonial theory, cultural studies, political theory, and feminist theory.

David Vasquez-Levy serves as president of Pacific School of Religion. He is a committed pastor and a nationally recognized higher education and immigration leader.

He serves as convener for the GTU Consortial Council, is co-founder and convener for the Latinx presidents and deans of ATS schools, and is a member of the executive leaders group of AshokaU campus network and the Asociacion para La Educacion Teologica Hispana. He also serves on the board of Church World Service and the Advisory Council for Encore.org.

Vasquez-Levy regularly contributes a faith perspective to the national conversation on immigration, including speaking at a congressional briefing, participating in two immigration consultations with the Obama White House, and recently engaging in a series of public conversation with various state attorneys across the country to reframe the national conversation about immigration. He has consulted on several documentaries on immigration, labor, and human rights, and is the author of various publications that explore migration stories in sacred texts and in people's lives.

He holds MDiv and DMin degrees from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, including studies at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany.

Mary H. Young joined the staff of ATS in June 2017 as director of leadership education. She is responsible for planning and implementing leadership education programs for administrators in ATS member schools, including conferences and workshops for academic officers, development personnel, financial officers, and student personnel administrators as well as the programs for Women in Leadership (WIL) and the Committee on Race and Ethnicity (CORE).  

Young came to ATS after 23 years in service to Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology of Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia, most recently as assistant professor of Christian education, and director of the Master of Arts in Christian Education program. She also led the seminary in institutional effectiveness, accreditation preparedness, data collection, grant reporting, and program evaluation. Having guided the seminary in discussions around online learning, Young also completed a Wabash Center program on online teaching for theological faculty.

Ordained in The American Baptist Churches, Young served as minister of education at several churches in the Richmond, VA area, participated widely in denominational events, and wrote church school curricula for the denomination. She is an experienced pastoral leader, workshop facilitator, seminary professor, program director, and consultant in Christian education for churches and other organizations.   

Her publications include sermons in Preaching Funerals in the Black Church:  Bringing Perspective to Pain (Dr. Peter M. Wherry, author/editor) Judson Press, 2013, and Those Preachin Women, Volume 4 (Dr. Ella P. Mitchell, editor) Judson Press, 2004. She is co-author of “Small Investments Yield Big Rewards:  How One Seminary's Faculty, Staff and Students are Working Together to Put a Dent in the Debt Crisis," an article in the Theological Education journal. Her most recent publication is a chapter titled “Religious Education and Communities of Learning and Practice:  Inspiring Advocacy in Public Ministry” in the book From Lament to Advocacy: Black Religious Education and Public Ministry.
 
A graduate of Virginia Union University in mathematics, Young earned her MDiv from Virginia Union and her EdD from Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education.