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Current Staff

SMU Staff '22-23


Board of Directors

Administration Department

Finance Department

Missions Conference Department
President & VP

Marketing & Communications Department

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Department

Global Missions Department

Local Missions Department
SMU President

Neema Mbogo
Finance Department
The Executive Department seeks to uphold the SMU Purpose Statement by providing vision and direction to SMU staff and stewardship of SMU resources.

Rosio McCullough
Vice President
Administration
Department
The Office Staff seeks to create an environment of grace within the Student Government Association and Student Missionary Union offices by maximizing external and internal communication and empowering the staff through encouragement and service.




Jacqueline McCauslin
Director of Administration
Selah Balli
Office Assistant
Tessa Bhola
Office Assistant
Katie Ragains
Office Assistant

Sabrina Steinhubel
Director of Human Resources
Human Resources
Department
The purpose of the Human Resources Director is to seek to streamline the hiring process of SMU in order to ensure efficient practices internally and to better the communication with external stakeholders. With this position, the HR Director will be the primary mode of communication to all applicants, the HR Director will be able to provide a better customer service mentality to applicants, lessen the administrative workload for Directors, and improve the overall hiring process for the organization.
Diversity, Equity &
Inclusion Department
The Director and Inclusion Department serves to research and advise SMU through issues of diversity and inclusion, while establishing programs that help promote themes of reconciliation. These roles will be training the directors and staff on topics of diversity, supporting recruitment and branding in appealing to diverse applicants while removing biases, reviewing wording in policies and procedures to ensure inclusivity, and developing partnerships with different organizations on campus.

Isaro Munyemana
Diversity, Equity &
Inclusion Director
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
DEPARTMENT
The Marketing and Communication Department seeks to honestly and creatively convey passion for missions and discipleship through the presentation of SMU opportunities to the student body through visual forms. We exist as a team of highly skilled creatives and communicators that surrender our God given gifts to serve God and SMU, with the ultimate goal being to catalyze involvement in SMU for the amplification and furthering of the Gospel. We are biblically grounded and spirit led in our creativity.
Berenice Carrasco
Director of Marketing & Communications
Bina Kidane
Graphic Designer



Erica Styffe
Communication Coordinator

Afton McNatt
Media Coordinator

Jonathan Kim
Media Coordinator
Missions Conference Department
The Missions Conference Department seeks to create a consecrated time of response to God, reserved for the Holy Spirit to align the hearts of students to the completion of the Great Commission. The hope is to facilitate an atmosphere during the conference, which seeks to educate, equip and inspire students in relation to the final and most urgent call of Christ to “go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.”

Olivia Benda
Director of Missions Conference

Ehud Lee
Director of Missions Conference
LOCAL MISSIONS
DEPARTMENT
The Local Missions Department exists to equip students to work alongside their local community respectfully and with well-oriented hearts as they answer the call of the Great Commission to serve wherever they may find themselves. The Local Missions Department longs to bridge the understanding that the local context is everywhere, whether globally or where we live locally. They aim to do this by equipping students to serve alongside churches and organizations in Biola’s respective Jerusalem (the L.A. County) and Judea (the greater California).
Nicholas Arreola
Director of Local Missions
Jessica Field
Team Developer
Naomi Stacy
Team Developer




Global Missions
Department
The Global Missions Department seeks to advance the gospel of Christ among the nations. We are a community that seeks to be centered on Christ, founded on prayer, dependent upon the Holy Spirit, and whose passion is to see God glorified as lives are changed through short-term missions.
Priscilla Jones
Events and Logistics Coordinator
Jess Lee
Director of Global Missions
Payton Masters
Team Developer



Vennessa Ruiz
Team Developer

Luke Steinhubel
Events and
Logistics Coordinator
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