Obama Names Last Adviser to His Final Faith-Based Council

President Obama has announced plans to appoint the leader of a Chicago Muslim organization as the final member of his corps of faith-based advisers.

Rami Nashashibi co-founded the Inner-City Muslim Action Network in 1997.

Here is the list of the members of the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships:

Council Chair: The Rev. Jennifer Butler, CEO, Faith in Public Life

Other council members:

• Bishop Carroll A. Baltimore, former president, Progressive National Baptist Convention
• Preeta Bansal, president, Social Emergence Corporation
• The Rev. David Beckmann, president, Bread for the World
• The Rev. Traci Blackmon, acting executive minister of the United Church of Christ’s Justice and Witness Ministries
• Kara Bobroff, executive director of Native American Community Academy
• Christian blogger and author Rachel Held Evans
• Rabbi Steve Gutow, former president, Jewish Council for Public Affairs
• The Rev. Adam Hamilton, pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kan.
• Aziza Hasan, executive director of NewGround: Muslim Jewish Partnership for Change
• Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, vice president, social policy and politics program, Third Way
• David Jeffrey, national commander, Salvation Army USA
• Naseem Kourosh, human rights officer at the U.S. Baha’i Office of Public Affairs
• The Rev. Jo Anne Lyon, former general superintendent, The Wesleyan Church
• The Rev. Michael McBride, urban strategies director, People Improving Communities through Organizing
• Nipun Mehta, founder, ServiceSpace
• Rami Nashashibi, executive director, Inner-City Muslim Action Network
• Kevin Ryan, CEO and president, Covenant House International
• The Rev. Gabriel Salguero, president, National Latino Evangelical Coalition
• Barbara Satin, assistant faith work director, National LGBTQ Task Force
• Stephen Schneck, director, Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies, Catholic University of America
• Manjit Singh, board chair, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Alexie Torres-Fleming, executive director, nonprofit Access Strategies Fund
• Deborah Weinstein, executive director, Coalition on Human Needs

Via Religion News Service.