PROMOTING SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH BUSINESS EDUCATION

Featuring Lumina Albert, Associate Professor, School of Business, Colorado State University

Dr. Lumina Albert began her path for justice in Kerala, India. Her culture, traditions, and faith have been deeply rooted in her life. And that life has taken her to many places and opportunities far beyond India.

Lumina’s keen mind and business interests led her to an academic path in the United States. She earned an MBA (with a dual specialization in Marketing and Human Resource Management) and a PhD in Business Management. Following her doctoral studies, Lumina received the prestigious AAUW International Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue her research at the Department of Psychology at Stanford University and at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Lumina’s research seeks to extend knowledge of social justice, ethical behavior, and interpersonal relationships in the business world.

Lumina’s academic achievements focused her career path. She is currently Associate Professor of Management, OtterBox Faculty Fellow, and a Daniels Ethics Fellow in the College of Business at Colorado State University.  She is an award-winning teacher, and has been honored with the College of Business Excellence in Teaching Award and the ‘Best Teacher of Colorado State University' Award, which is given to outstanding educators at CSU by the CSU Alumni Association and Student Alumni Connection.

Lumina extends her teaching with many other activities supporting research and advocacy. She is an Associate Editor of Journal of Managerial Psychology. Her research has been published in scholarly journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Ethics, Human Resource Management Review, Organizational Psychology Review and Group & Organizations Management. She has published a wide range of articles and research reports.

In addition, Lumina is the Faculty Advisor of the student-led Colorado State University organization, The Justice Club, an organization committed to seek justice against oppression, and provide education on social justice issues, including racial justice, human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children. She is also a central organizer of the Northern Colorado Human Trafficking Symposium, a premier and distinctive conference that seeks to engage and educate on the issue of human trafficking through research, training, and collaboration. Lumina’s service at CSU and to the Northern Colorado Community has been recognized with the College of Business Outstanding Service Award, CSU Multicultural Distinguished Service Award, and the Distinguished Service Award from the Office of International Programs at CSU. 

Lumina also has served as a consultant with organizations such as Procter & Gamble, International Justice Mission and Child Relief & You (CRY) on issues ranging from strategic public relations to organizing social marketing campaigns. She serves on the Board of Directors of New Horizons House, an international organization providing holistic restoration for survivors of human trafficking and sexual abuse.

In her many activities and initiatives, Lumina has demonstrated an integration of her heart for justice with her interests and skills in academics and business, setting an example for students, educators, and business professionals.

GLOBAL MISSIONS AND GLOBAL JUSTICE: A SHARED CALLING

Featuring Frank Schattner, Co-Founder/Co-Director, Jonathan Project Ministry

Frank Schattner is a man with a Bostonian accent, an international mind, and a Christian heart.  Frank and his wife, Jan (Jessup), have been engaged in cross-cultural ministry for almost 40 years. Their experiences have led them around the country, the globe, and through many organizations to support global missions and global justice.

Frank and Jan serve as founders and current directors of the Jonathan Project Ministry. The mission of the Jonathan Project is to focus the gospel on the most unreached people groups around the world in order to facilitate Church Planting Movements. The backbone of their ministry is to train local leaders and believers to take responsibility for the lost around them. The Jonathan Project, as a global network, has numerous partnerships with local leaders, churches, denominations and mission agencies.

The Schattners have been based out of Thailand most of their ministry years but have also lived in China and Laos. The Jonathan Project started with a focus in Southeast Asia, but has now expanded throughout the globe.  As a result, Frank has extensive international experience and speaks numerous Asian languages.

Frank has also guided the development of other organizations and programs for church planting and addressing issues of justice.  He has had a role in beginning Zume Training an online Discipling program. Recently they launched an online obedience-based seminary named Fidelis. In the 1980s, Frank, along with Moses Samol Seth, constituted Agape International Missions (AIM) for church planting and outreach in Cambodia.  That organization, under the more recent leadership of Don & Bridget Brewster, has further developed into one of the leading anti-human trafficking organizations.

Frank’s extensive global mission experiences have led him to be a keynote speaker at mission conferences and churches around the world. He’s also the author of the “Wheel Model: Catalyzing Sustainable Church Multiplication Movements.”

The Schattners’ global mission work is rooted in their Christian education and in their deep family roots in the Christian faith.  Frank (’85) and Jan (’81) are both graduates of William Jessup University (WJU).  WJU’s Founder, William Jessup, is Jan’s grandfather, and the University’s long time president Bryce Jessup, was Jan’s father. Both of these men were church leaders as well as educational leaders.

Frank also has degrees from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Hope International, and Biola University.  He has served as adjunct faculty at WJU as well as other schools in Asia.

Frank brings his lifetime of global missions experience and international knowledge to the Board of G.L.O.B.A.L. Justice.