Our Team
Stephen Crawford - Executive Director
Stephen Crawford is the Executive Director of Urban Leadership, an organization dedicated to preparing generational leaders to ignite transformative change in their communities and around the world. For the last ten years he has been instrumental in developing this program from a local training program for teenagers in the Twin Cities MN and expanded it to transforming the lives of community leaders and youth leading organizations around the country. ...more
Rachel Schwenke - Program Director
Graduate of North Central University in Minneapolis with a B.S. in Business Administration and Urban Ministries. She is currently pursuing her Master’s of Community Ministry Leadership at Bethel Seminary. Rachel was the Children’s Pastor at Christ Church International in Minneapolis for 6 years and an adjunct professor at North Central University. ...more
Tatrina Willams - Alumni Administrative Assistant
Trina is a current student at North Central University, and an Alumni of Urban Leadership Academy. Trina participated in ULA in the summer of 2002. She is currently majoring in Psychology, and plans to work with children and families after she obtains her degree. ...more
Karen McKinney - Lead Teacher
B.A., University of Minnesota; M.Div., Fuller Theological Seminary; M.S., Mankato State University; Ed.D. candidate, University of St. Thomas; Director of Youth Ministries and Professor of Biblical Theology at Bethel University, with a special interest in experiential education. Karen is a minister at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Minneapolis. She has been the chair of the Bethel Anti-Racism and Reconciliation Commission ...more
