Dr. Mark Smutny is a professional facilitator, diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant, workshop leader, coach, author and founder of Civic Reinventions, Inc. His career spans several specialties including nonprofit leadership in senior transportation services, homelessness and affordable housing services, small business development and community organizing. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), a progressive Protestant tradition, and has served as a senior pastor in congregations in California, Ohio, New York, and Washington. He draws upon decades of work planning and leading retreats, teaching, facilitating meetings and working to build more inclusive organizations and communities. He has cofounded several public-private partnerships to increase funding for low income housing, strengthen municipal governments, and and rebuild neighborhood and business associations. He is a program associate with the Kaleidoscope Institute, a faith-based nonprofit that trains church leaders to embrace diversity and build inclusive, multicultural congregations. He serves as a consultant with 501 Commons, a Washington state nonprofit that teaches nonprofit leadership and management skills in the Pacific Northwest. Dr. Smutny's received his doctorate from McCormick theological seminary where his doctoral dissertation focused on building successful and thriving multicultural congregations. He received a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity school, one of the most pluralistic and progressive seminaries in the world. He graduated summa cum laude from The College of Idaho, with a B.A. in philosophy. Mark and his wife, Barbara Anderson, live in the Seattle area where they enjoy gardening, hiking in the Cascades, exercising their dogs, and enjoying their four granddaughters.