Sandhya Jha serves as pastor of First Christian Church of Oakland (currently in discernment over whether to become Disciples of Peace at the Oakland Peace Center), a multicultural, multi-socioeconomic, GLBT-inclusive, liberationist, emergent, increasingly missional congregation that wouldn’t use any of those words to describe it. She also serves as Missional Minister of Transformation and Reconciliation for the Christian Churches of Northern CA-NV. Her passion is liberation ethics as an academic field and as a lived experience in urban communities. She recently published “Room at the Table: The struggle for dignity and unity in Disciples history,” a book about people of color in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Sandhya is co-moderator of the denomination’s Reconciliation Commission and an occasional consultant for Church Extension’s New Beginnings program.