Regional Immigration Summit: Tennessee

Dr. Al-Hagal has founded the International Leadership Coalition for the purpose of discovering and equipping local and international leaders to be effective and successful in their perspective fields of business both nationally and internationally. Dr. Al-Hagal has led the (ILC) to partner with educational institutes as well as non-profit organizations.

In addition to his extensive experience in organizational and business management leadership, Dr. Al-Hagal is a certified leading expert in the field of trauma healing. He has conducted many trauma healing seminars in communities that have suffered social and geographical devastation in many nations. He has equipped and trained many community and educational personnel in the field of trauma healing and the field of counseling all around the world.

Dr. Fady Al-Hagal, has served as executive director of World Relief Nashville, a non-profit organization serving the need of displaced refugees from all around the world.

Matthew Soerens is the US Director of Church Mobilization for World Relief, where he helps evangelical churches to understand the realities of refugees and immigration and to respond in ways guided by biblical values. He also serves as the National Coordinator for the Evangelical Immigration Table, a coalition that advocates for immigration reforms consistent with biblical values. Matthew previously served as a Department of Justice-accredited legal counselor at World Relief’s local office in Wheaton, Illinois and, before that, with World Relief’s partner organization in Managua, Nicaragua. He’s also the co-author of Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis (Moody Publishers, 2016).

Jill Stoltzfus is the Executive Director for AJS-US, the Association for a More Just Society, a Christian organization dedicated to doing justice in Honduras and inspiring others around the world to seek justice in their own contexts. In Honduras the organization consists of over 80 brave Hondurans who are national leaders in promoting anti-corruption, reducing community violence, and defending human rights. Jill is passionate about connecting people from around the world to the work of AJS and seeing others inspired to stand up for justice. Jill received a B.A. in International Development from Calvin University and a Master’s in Organizational Leadership from Eastern University.