Our Associates
All of the associates of Salter McNeil & Associates, LLC have a passion for reconciliation and a desire to be instrumental in bringing about racial healing. These associates are trained and certified by Salter McNeil & Associates to assist Drs. Brenda Salter and J. Derek McNeil to effectively serve a diverse clientele. They provide valuable expertise in the assessment process, multiethnic leadership team development, and training to help Salter McNeil & Associates successfully guide various institutions and organizations through the reconciliation process.
- Debra Flores
- Erica Hunt
- Thomas Hurley
- June Price
- Kevin Blue
- Lisa Sharon Harper
- Diane Murphy
- Adrienne Reedy
- Rosanne Swain
Associates
Debra Flores
Debra Flores has been a leader and teacher in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago for over 30 years. She is currently the principal at Humboldt Community Christian School, where she has served for five years. Previously, she served as a volunteer, teacher, and board president at the school. She has also served as an Elder, Deacon, Christian Education Director, Treasurer and networking facilitator in local churches in the Humboldt Park and surrounding communities.
Debra is a graduate of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. She is married to Juan Flores, and has three children. She serves with her husband at Christ’s Vineyard and Lawndale Christian Reformed Church.
Debra has long felt a call to cross-cultural ministry and agrees with Rev. Martin Luther King’s statement that, “Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of justice.”
Erica Hunt
Erica Hunt has been personally and professionally committed to racial reconciliation for over 10 years. She lives out her passion for biblical reconciliation through her work, family life and volunteer activities. It is through writing that Erica has found the most joy and satisfaction in demonstrating her passion for reconciliation. In both professional and volunteer capacities, Erica has written several units of children’s curriculum, devotion booklets, training workshops and manuals.
Erica received two Bachelor of Arts degrees from Bethel University in St. Paul, MN, where she studied history and education. While a student at Bethel, she capitalized on her position as Student Body President to host events and serve on committees that addressed racial justice issues on campus.
She has since worked with both rural and urban populations, educating and empowering children, youth and families in under-resourced communities. She leads a small group of 7th grade girls at her home church of Woodland Hills in St. Paul, MN. Erica is an active volunteer at her daughter’s school and a local food pantry.
Erica’s most challenging and fulfilling volunteer experience has been serving as the leader of her church’s Multi-Ethnic Resource Team for the past two years. It was this experience, which introduced her to Salter McNeil & Associates, LLC. Her unique perspective as a client of SMA is invaluable in her role as an Associate.
Erica’s husband, Dan, shares her passion for reconciliation. They live and work in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area with their three young daughters.
Thomas Hurley
Tom is the Regional Re-entry Manager for BI Incorporated, a national private community corrections company. In this capacity he oversees 13 re-entry programs for high-risk parole offenders in Illinois, Kansas and Missouri. He has worked in the field of community corrections since 1991, previously working in the Cook County Adult Probation Department.
Tom holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Organization Communication, and a Master’s Degree in Human Services Administration. He is a gifted teacher and has served in various ministerial capacities for over 15 years.
Tom has been collaborating with Dr. Salter McNeil in the field of racial reconciliation for the past 10 years assisting with conferences, meetings and training sessions. His interest and commitment to racial diversity is a very personal one, evidenced by his 14-year interracial marriage and the active parenting of two bi-racial children.
Tom and his wife Joyce are active members of New Life Covenant Oakwood Church, where Tom is currently a participant in the Ministers Training Program to prepare him further to serve in ministerial leadership.
June Price
June Price has been a leader in the field of multicultural education for over 20 years, developing curriculum and training teachers to broaden their scope and sequence to be ethnically and culturally inclusive in and out of the classroom. She has worked in school districts of varying demographics, including the Cleveland Public Schools, Wayne Township Schools in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Swanton Local Schools, in northwest Ohio.
June has also served on and chaired numerous small groups and committees on diversity, most recently developing with her husband a diversity initiative for local schools. June is a sought-after facilitator and speaker on topics of diversity and hostile work environments.
June is a graduate of the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. She received training in curriculum and literacy from Cleveland State University and is completing a Master's Degree in Organizational Management from Spring Arbor University in Toledo, Ohio, where she is a Martha Jennings Scholar.
June is married to Eric Price Sr. and they have three children. June is an ordained minister and has served as an Elder in her local fellowship for the past ten years.
June views her work with Salter McNeil & Assoociates as a continuation of her journey of creating educational environments, which prepare people for the global society in which we live.
Reconciliation Specialists
Kevin Blue
Kevin Blue is a pastor and trainer based in the Los Angeles Area. He has served in various teaching and training capacities since 1987. He is currently employed as the Internships Director for Servant Partners, a mission agency committed to church-planting and community transformation within the squatter communities around the world. Kevin also directs the Los Angeles Urban Project, InterVarsity's 6-week summer mission project, which explores issues of poverty, racial reconciliation, and spiritual warfare.
Kevin serves as the teaching pastor for the Church of the Redeemer, and travels nationally to teach, train and consult with various churches and ministries, focusing on the following topics: cross-cultural ministry, concern for communities of need, urban transformation, international outreach and leadership development. He has recently authored Practical Justice and was a contributing author for Faith on the Edge.
Kevin is married to his wife, Jennifer, and they have one child.
Lisa Sharon Harper
Lisa Sharon Harper is a speaker, activist, writer, and playwright, who is committed to the work of racial reconciliation.
Ms. Harper is the co-founder and executive director of NY Faith & Justice, a budding movement of churches, organizations and individuals dedicated to following Christ, uniting the church and ending poverty in New York through spiritual formation, education, and direct advocacy.
A sought-after speaker, Harper’s Shalom Talk Series has catalyzed Christian ethnic reconciliation and justice movements in California, Nevada, New Mexico, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia, New York City, and Boston. Ms. Harper is a prolific playwright and currently serves as a featured op-ed writer for the web-based community, FaithfulDemocrats.com, in addition to being a featured journalist for the national Study Circles Resource Center.
Ms. Harper previously served as an Arts Specialist and Greater Los Angeles Director of Racial Reconciliation for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF). In this capacity, she conducted ethnic reconciliation training conferences, consulted with IVCF campus movements, conducted staff training in ethnic reconciliation, and helped develop the ethnic reconciliation tool “Race Matters” in addition to co-writing the “Race Matters” Handbook.
Ms. Harper holds a M.A. in Human Rights, with a concentration in Religion & the Media, from Columbia University (New York) and a M.F.A. in Playwriting from the University of Southern California.
Ms. Harper attends All Angels Episcopal Church in New York City.
Diane Murphy
Dr. Murphy brings a wide range of experience as an educator and expert in the field of multicultural education to Salter McNeil & Associates. As an instructor at Northwestern College (Orange City, Iowa); Whitworth College (Spokane, Washington); San Diego State University; and Seattle University, she focused on the psychology of learning and multicultural education. She currently serves as an adjunct professor at Seattle University.
Dr. Murphy is a graduate of Wheaton College, holds a Master’s Degree from Northern Illinois University, and earned a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in multicultural education from The Joint Doctoral Program in Education at The Claremont Graduate School/San Diego State University.
Dr. Murphy is married and has served twelve years as a pastor’s wife. She and her husband are especially proud of their two children and three grandchildren.
Adrienne Reedy
Adrienne Reedy is an international gospel recording artist, songwriter and worship leader. She travels around the world sharing the gospel message through song. She has particular expertise in the area of multi-cultural worship.
Adrienne hails from Willingboro, NJ where she grew up singing in the Macedonia Baptist Church choir. At Drexel University, Adrienne was a founding member of the gospel choir and graduated to a series of choir directorships while serving as lead vocalist of the Love Ensemble, a contemporary Christian Gospel group.
Adrienne offers a wealth of experience and insight on the issues of racial reconciliation resultant from her own interracial marriage and her experiences raising bi-racial children.
Adrienne serves on several boards and is an active member of the Covenant Church of Easton in Connecticut.
Rosanne Swain
Rosanne Swain has worked to raise awareness of issues of racial diversity and equality in a variety of settings. At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), she served as a Financial Chairperson of the Student Council, where she made monetary decisions that enriched the diversity of campus life. Rosanne later worked for Pepsi-Cola in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a marketing associate with a concentration in new products and ethnic marketing. She later came to Chicago to accept a position at LINK Unlimited, a faith-based, not-for-profit organization, which provides scholarships for African-American high school students and establishes mentoring relationships, which help bridge the racial divide between students and sponsors.
Rosanne holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from UCLA, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan. Rosanne, along with her husband, John Swain Jr., have eight years of experience in marriage ministry. They home-school their three children, with an emphasis in Chinese and African culture and history.
All of these experiences and her growing compassion for unity have charged Rosanne with the divine mandate to serve in the ministry of racial reconciliation.
