Michael Joseph 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.

Vanessa Lovelace is vice president for academic affairs and dean of Lancaster Theological Seminary. She is also associate professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. A member of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, she has articles in many edited volumes and journals including The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives, Judges Wisdom Commentary, The Oxford Handbook of the Minor Prophets, The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Bible and Gender Studies, and The Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center. She is also coeditor with Gay L. Byron of Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse. Her professional affiliations include serving on the editorial board of Biblical Theology Bulletin, cochair of the Society of Biblical Literature Women in the Biblical World Committee, and the American Academy of Religion Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession. Lovelace earned a PhD in Bible (Hebrew), Culture, and Hermeneutics from Chicago Theological Seminary, and an MDiv from McCormick Theological Seminary. She is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.

Elsie Miranda was named director of accreditation for ATS in July 2018, and added director of diversity to her portfolio in 2022. She is responsible for coordinating evaluation committees, visits, and reports for approximately 20 percent of the member schools accredited by the Commission on Accrediting of ATS. She previously served on the ATS committee for the Revision of Standards from 2012 to 2014, and she has served on many evaluation teams and as a member of a peer group examining programs for Latino/a students for the ATS Educational Models and Practices project. She came to ATS after 22 years at Barry University Department of Theology and Philosophy, serving most recently as associate professor of practical theology and as director of ministerial formation. As a Cuban American and practical theologian, she has focused her research interests on the intersection of faith and how socio-culture and socio-political realities impact both human formation and efforts toward peace and justice at local and global levels. As a Roman Catholic, she has been actively involved in the practice of synodality—“walking together” as an action of the Spirit in the communion of the Body of Christ and in the missionary journey of the People of God—convening groups in English and Spanish.

Mary H. Young joined the ATS staff in June 2017 as director of leadership education. She was 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). As director of CORE and WIL programs, she will continue to oversee the work for those two initiatives on a part-time basis for the 2022–2023 academic year.

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, she also completed a Wabash Center program on online teaching for theological faculty.

Ordained in The American Baptist Churches, Young has served as minister of education at several churches in the Richmond area and written church school curricula for the denomination. She brings to ATS her experience as a pastoral leader, workshop facilitator, 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 coauthor 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. Forthcoming publications include “Religious Education and Communities of Learning: Inspiring Religious, Social, and Public Political Activism" in From Lament to Public Advocacy: Black Religious Education and Public Theology.

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.