Our Leadership
Board of Directors
Andrew Ginsberg
Andrew stepped into the Board Chair role in 2024. He is currently President and CEO of Operation Mobilization USA, and has non-profit and for profit experiences, including roles in sales/marketing, strategy, and executive leadership in the diagnostics, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical fields. He has lived and worked in the U.S. and Europe, and has led teams on six continents, and most enjoys solving complex systems, whether in organizational development or statistics. Andrew graduated from Duke University with degrees in Political Science and Genetics. He also studied at Emmanuel College at Cambridge. His wife Marnie is a reading education thought leader, and they have three daughters.
Katherine Leary Alsdorf
Katherine served as founding director of Redeemer’s Center for Faith & Work (CFW) from 2002 to 2012. Since 2013, Katherine has worked with a variety of churches to establish faith and work ministries and led the New City Fellows program in Raleigh, NC for its first two years. She is also adjunct faculty in Regent College’s Masters of Arts program in Leadership, Theology and Society (MALTS). Katherine received her BA from Wittenberg University, her MBA from the University of Virginia, and has taken seminary classes from Regent College. She has served on the boards of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Fellowship of the Performing Arts, the Theology of Work Project, International Arts Movement and the Carver Project. Katherine co-authored Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God’s Work.
Ken Miller
Kenneth P. Miller is the Don H. and Edessa Rose Professor of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College, where he also serves as the Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government. Miller has been a visiting scholar at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University (2011-2012) and the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University (2017-2018). He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Veritas Forum.
Dakota Pippins
Dakota Pippins was born and raised in New York. He studied applied mathematics as an undergraduate, followed by graduate programs in computer science and in theology. Dakota began working with InterVarsity in 1996 and served as Regional Director in the Mid-Atlantic. He is currently Senior Field Director at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA. Dakota and his wife, Jennifer Rodriguez Pippins, have two high-energy boys.
Tess Russell
Tess Russell, MD Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Columbia University Vagelos College of
Physicians and Surgeons, is a Texas transplant to New York City. She completed her medical training at
the University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center and moved to New York in 2005 to complete
Anesthesiology training at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where she also served as Chief Resident.
Upon graduation, she stayed on at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt and became the Associate Residency Program
Director, Director of the Clinical Internship and Director of Simulation Education. In 2014, she left St.
Luke’s-Roosevelt to pursue additional training in Critical Care Medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital.
Currently at Columbia University, she is an Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at CUMC and
has a particular interest in resident and attending wellness. She serves as the Director of the Physician
Wellbeing Initiative in the Department of Anesthesiology, which has created a novel longitudinal
curriculum surrounding wellness and resilience for trainees. Her academic interests are centered on
physician flourishing and is a Physician Well-Being Lead for the Dean’s Office of Well-Being.
Additionally, she has won Teacher of the Year by the Anesthesiology residents, CTICU Attending of the
Year twice, and was voted Physician of the Year at New-York Presbyterian Hospital by her nursing
colleagues in 2020. Dr. Russell lives in New York City with her husband and three children.