| Rev. David H. Kim is the Director of the Gotham Fellowship. Before directing Gotham, He served at Princeton University for 15 years directing a campus ministry called Manna Christian Fellowship focusing on how the gospel renews both private and public worlds. He received his B.A. in biology from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.Div. from Westminster Theological Seminary, and his Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary in Christian Ethics, and is currently an D.Min. candidate at Fuller. |
| Erin moved to NYC in 2006 after completing her engineering studies at Clemson and her juris doctor at Tulane. She has spent time abroad, working in Paris in 2001 and studying in Italy in 2004. Erin was a visiting law student at Columbia in Fall 2005, due to Hurricane Katrina, when she began attending Redeemer and caught the \"vision\" of loving and serving NYC. Originally from the South, Erin loves cities - especially NYC, NOLA and Paris - and looks forward to Gotham deeping this passion. |
| Darren is the co-founder of a financial technology startup where he leads sales and business development. Born and raised in the suburbs of New York City, Darren later attended college at Duke University where he studied creative writing and political science. He has since made up for his soft suburban upbringing by living in Manhattan for more than ten years, climbing up mountains all day to ski down them once, and greatly enjoying books like Roger Olson’s “Story of Christian Theology”. |
| Katherine is the founder/director of Redeemer's Center for Faith and Work, which oversees Gotham Fellowship, Entrepreneurship Initiative, vocation groups, Arts Ministries, and classes. She came to Redeemer from California where she led 2 tech companies from 1996-2001. Prior to that she worked in NYC for a tech startup and became a Christian through Redeemer. She also worked in Luxembourg 1 yr and 9 yrs as an economic analyst in the aerospace industry. |
| Dasha works for an international non-profit that engages influential business and government leaders in making clean technologies commercially viable. Dasha is responsible for identifying and engaging these leaders in strategic partnerships that will bring these technologies to scale. As a former educator, she enjoys the arts, teaching, coaching and running. Dasha holds a B.A. from Wake Forest University and is completing her M.A. in Business Management at NYU. |
| Brendan moved to NYC in 2006 after growing up in New Hampshire and attending Middlebury College in Vermont, where he studied economics and political science. Brendan has a variety of interests, including reading history books, hiking, hanging out in the mountains, kayaking, sledding, skiing, traveling, eating with people, discussing food, eating sushi in Costa Rica, and grilling out with friends next to pools while tossing the football. For work, he invests in clean energy companies. |
| Amilee joined the Gotham staff in October 2010, having graduated from the inaugural Gotham Class of 2009. Prior to coming to the CFW she worked for seven years with the Starbucks Coffee Company, where she managed several stores throughout Manhattan, trained new management, and served as a PR representative for the company. Amilee is also working in leadership development with our vocation groups. In addition to her management background, Amilee is a freelance flautist. |
| Cooper is the Founding Director of Finance and Operations of PAVE Academy Charter School, an elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to PAVE, Cooper was a founding teacher of a 9-12 program at The Pine School in South Florida and a finance associate in BB&T bank's Management Development Program. Cooper holds a B.A. from Wake Forest University, an M.A.T. from Johns Hopkins University, and an Ed.M from Columbia University. Cooper is married to Dasha Rettew who is also a Gotham Fellow. |
| Karen is an attorney focusing on intellectual property law. She grew up in sunny southern California, attended college in the Bay Area, and still considers herself Californian at heart. However, she did discover in Boston, while in law school, that she *loves* snow. She likes exploring cute cafes and hole-in-the-wall restaurants, mindless reading, doing random activities with her sister and friends, and hanging out in parks/riverfronts on the weekends. |