Meet our growing community
We are excited to announce our new Ormond interns and fellows. We have brought on several student workers from Duke Divinity School, the larger University, as well as Fellows who will contribute to our mission through their expertise. Meet them below!
New interns and fellows—
Faculty Fellow
Sanyin Siang is the founding Executive Director of Duke University's Coach K Leadership & Ethics Center at its Fuqua School of Business. The center regularly convenes think tanks to explore cutting-edge issues and is also a leadership laboratory that helps in a baseline leadership experience for every Daytime MBA student. Drawing on her science & engineering background, Sanyin is also an adjunct associate professor with Duke's Pratt School of Engineering and a Sr. Fellow with the Ormond Center at Duke Divinity School.
Recognized by Thinkers50 (the Premier Global Ranking of Management Thinkers) as the world's Most Influential Coach & Mentor, Sanyin helps founders and C-Suite Teams cultivate their innate and distinctive strengths, build stronger teams and codify organizational culture.
Sanyin is author of the award-winning The Launch Book that draws on stories and behavioral science principles to help readers transition boldly through change and launches. Her thought-leadership has been recognized and featured in Forbes, Fortune, Inc, The Wall Street Journal, and World Economic Forum Platform. She amplifies insights and exemplars to more than 1,000,000 followers on LinkedIn and was named to LinkedIn’s Top Global Influencers Voices Lists in 2017 & 2018.
Sanyin is a leadership advisor for GV (formerly Google Ventures) and an investor and advisor in tech startups. Her board service has included the Museum of Life & Science, The Emily Krzyzewski Center, The US Congressional Award Foundation Advisory Board. She is an alumnus of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference (the US Department of Defense’s most prestigious civilian program).
Sanyin received her MBA and BSE in biomedical engineering from Duke University. She lives in Durham with the loves of her life (her husband Chad and 3 kids (Sophie, Charlotte, and Oliver).
Strategic Intern
Patrick is interning at the Ormond Center this school year while finishing his Master's of Divinity Degree at Duke Divinity School. A native of Raleigh, Patrick is currently pursuing ordination as a Deacon in the United Methodist Church. Before his time at Duke, Patrick received a B.A. in Government from Wofford College-- playing for the Terriers tennis team and serving as President for the Class of 2017. You will not meet a more passionate Wofford Terrier or North Carolina BBQ enthusiast. Patrick loves to learn how people organize themselves in different spaces-- religious communities, political institutions, kickball leagues, etc. What fascinates him about these different ways of organizing is how these communities define and work to achieve flourishing life, hope, love, and justice. After his time at Duke, Patrick hopes to attend law school and do Environmental Justice work in the Triangle.
Communications Intern
Rajeev Tiwari is a third year Master of Divinity student at Duke Divinity School. He received his Bachelors in Urban and Regional Studies and Planning from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia in 2016. He previously served as a director for a faith based non profit in Richmond called Impact Richmond that provides free construction and home repair for elderly and low income residents of the city who cannot do required renovations on their own. Advocating for those affected by housing injustices is Rajeev's passion and he hopes to bridge this gap between housing policy and theology when he is finished at Duke. He will be serving as a communications intern, handling online and social media communications for Ormond Center.
Open Design Strategist, NC Thrives
TJ Bryant is a candidate for the Master of Divinity at Duke Divinity School where he is also a Thriving Community Fellow. TJ is passionate about community organizing and theological reflection on community issues . For the 2021-2022 school year, TJ will partner with the Ormond Center as an Open Design Strategist on the Community Based Innovation Team.
Thriving Congregations Intern
PJ Gorman is a third-year student in the Master of Divinity program at Duke Divinity School. PJ has been active in student government and served as a representative for the Master of Divinity program to the Graduate and Professional Student Government and was later elected to the executive committee of the GPSG as Director of University Affairs. In his work with the Ormond Center, PJ will be responsible for data collection and management, as well as helping to write reports and publications with the Caring for Clergy project.
Common Table Collaborative Engagement Coordinator
Nohemi is an engagement coordinator for the Common Table Collaborative. In her work, she supports the implementation of engagement strategies through event and media coordination. Nohemi is the former Duke Divinity School Staff Specialist for the Office of the Chaplain and Anglican Episcopal House of Studies. In her previous work, Nohemi's work involved academic support, event planning, and program coordination with executive leadership. Currently, she is pursuing a master’s degree in Higher Education Administration at NC State.
In her free time, Nohemi enjoys camping, yoga, building puzzles, and exploring trails around the Triangle.
Fellow
Amy L. Sherman, Ph.D., has been involved in capacity building initiatives for congregations and faith-based and community based organizations for nearly twenty years. She is passionate to see faith-motivated leaders invest more strategically and effectively in their communities as they address poverty and injustice. Sherman has led multiple evaluation projects for faith-based organizations, including the Christian Community Development Association and Jobs for Life. She has led major research projects on a variety of topics, including youth financial literacy, philanthropy by women of faith, and community outreach by Hispanic congregations. She is a frequent speaker/trainer at gatherings for congregational and nonprofit ministry leaders.
Sherman is the author of seven books and over 100 articles and essays. Her most recent book is Agents of Flourishing: Pursuing Shalom in Every Corner of Society (IVP, forthcoming 2022). Her articles and essays have appeared in such magazines as The Public Interest, Policy Review, First Things, Christianity Today, Philanthropy, The American Enterprise, The Christian Century, and Books & Culture. She has also written several resource guides and toolkits for Christian community development practitioners.
Sherman is founder and former executive director of Charlottesville Abundant life Ministries, a holistic, cross-cultural, whole-family, church-based outreach in an urban neighborhood of approximately 380 lower-income families.
Sherman earned her BA in Political Science at Messiah College (197) and her M.A. and Ph.D. in international economic development from the University of Virginia (1994). She volunteered for several years as a Senior Fellow with the International Justice Mission, is a longtime member of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, VA, and is a passionate UVA men’s basketball fan.
Fellow
Emily Hunt-Hinojosa has spent a decade working within the academy on questions related to institutions and social change and also served with a variety of civic organizations to apply theoretical and methodological insight to pressing community problems. Trained as a community and cultural sociologist, her research interests focus on civic formation and political culture as well as understanding contemporary models of education as a vehicle for social change in the United States. She is a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.
Emily has published scholarly works related to paradigms and postures of civic and moral education, including most recently an article responding to critiques of the New Civics Movement (forthcoming in Teachers College Record) and Imagining Structural Stewardship: Lessons from The Highlander Folk School in Christian Faith and University Life: Stewards of the Academy. She holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Baylor University.