Baylor Leadership Summit
By participating in the Baylor Leadership Summit, students will:
- Understand the value of intra-dependent and inter-dependent relationships that foster collaboration and deepen intercultural commitments
- Build upon personal leadership knowledge and practice that promotes positive change in communities
- Experience meaningful interactions with students from a variety of colleges and universities
Educational program sessions are 50 minutes in length. The conference sessions should provide information for students & leaders from all institutional types.
Conference Schedule
- Thursday, March 21:
- 6:30pm Leadership Speaker Series with Dr. Soong-Chan Rah
- 7:30pm Leadership Mixer
- Friday, March 22:
- 9:00 – Interactive Learning
- 10:00 – Opening Address
- 10:30am – Session I
- 12:00pm – Lunch
- 2:00pm – Session II
Our Speakers
Devin Li & Jaja Chen, Cha Community
Devin Li serves as the CEO of Cha Community (formerly known as Waco Cha), a local boba tea in Waco, Texas with the mission of bridging cultures & creating community. We launched summer 2018 at the Waco Downtown Farmer’s Market. Within a year at the market, our business was able to sustain growth to a mobile tea truck and we hired on a larger team, including a manager. Eventually in 2020 - in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic - we launched our first storefront in downtown Waco and just expanded to a second shop in Downtown Temple, Texas. As a 1st Generation Asian American, he has a particular passion for supporting local BIPOC-owned businesses and aims to provide mentorship, consultation, business coaching, along with business marketing & strategy support now.
Jimmy Dorrell, Church Under the Bridge & Mission Waco
Born and raised in Conroe, Texas, Jimmy Dorrell has been involved in ministry for forty-nine years. He completed two degrees from Baylor University (Religion 1972), Environmental Studies (1993), a Masters of Divinity degree from SWBT Seminary (1978), and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (2001). He is adjunct professor at Baylor University & Baylor’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary and Baylor community engagement classes. rsity & Baylor’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary and Baylor community engagement classes. He was recognized as “person of the year” (2016) by the Wacoan Magazine and in the Waco Tribune Herald’s “Waco Today.”
Dr. Mia Moody-Ramirez of Baylor University, Journalism, Public Relations and New Media Department Chair
Mia Moody-Ramirez is a professor and chair of the Baylor University Department of Journalism, Public Relations and New Media in the College of Arts & Sciences. Moody-Ramirez’s research emphasizes image repair, intersectionality, critical race theory and media framing of women, and people of color. The author and co-author of four books, she has also been widely published in various academic journals, including Journalism Mass Communication Quarterly, Howard Journal of Communication, Journalism Educator, Journal of Black Studies, and Public Relations Review. During her tenure as the department chair, she has had the privilege of working with an amazing team of faculty and staff. Together, they have achieved many milestones, including re-accreditation by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) in 2022, the successful launch of a broadcast sequence in 2023, the introduction of updated concentrations and curriculum, and the endowment of several scholarships.
Hector Sabido, MBA
Hector Sabido, a native Wacoan, is currently the Director of Sales and Marketing for Prophecy Media Group, LLC, a cluster of radio stations in Central Texas. Hector received his bachelor’s degree from Baylor University. He received his Masters, in Business Administration, from Tarleton State University. Hector served on the Waco City Council, representing District II, from May 2019 to September 2021. He also serves on various community boards. He is the current board chairman for La Puerta, a non-profit that focuses on resources for Latino families. He also serves on the board of directors of the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Waco-McLennan County, Inspiracion, the Dr Pepper Museum & Free Enterprise Institute, Caritas, the Waco Mammoth Foundation, the Waco Hispanic Museum and the Waco Civic Theatre.
Dr. Soong-Chan Rah: Robert Boyd Munger Professor of Evangelism | Fuller Theological Seminary
Rah is formerly the founding Senior Pastor of Cambridge Community Fellowship Church (CCFC), a multi-ethnic church living out the values of racial reconciliation and social justice in the urban context. He has previously served on the boards of World Vision, Sojourners and the Christian Community Development Association. Soong-Chan received his B.A. from Columbia University; his M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; his Th.M. from Harvard University; his D.Min. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and his Th.D. from Duke University.
He has extensive experience in cross-cultural preaching as well as on numerous college campuses. Soong-Chan has been a main stage speaker at the Urbana Student Missions Conference, the Congress on Urban Ministry, the Urban Youth Workers Institute Conference, the CCDA National Conference, the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary National Preaching Conference, the Fuller Missiology Conference, the Justice Conference, and Verge, Catalyst, and Calvin Worship Conferences.
