Rev. Dr. Peggy Jean “PJ” Craig serves as Senior Pastor at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Germantown (CPCG) in Germantown, TN.  Before coming to CPCG, Peggy Jean was the Assistant Director for K12 Partnerships at Rutgers University-Camden, New Jersey.  She oversaw the university’s civic engagement strategic priority, while also leading Rutgers-Ignite, a STEM-based afterschool program; Rutgers Future Scholars, a pre-college scholarship program for first generation college students, the Hill Center for College Access, and the Camden College Access Network serving over 1,000 youth a year. Before Rutgers, Peggy Jean served as the Executive Director of the Advocate Center for Culture and Education at the historic Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  The Center provided programming deeply rooted in social justice, rigorous study, and community empowerment.  Peggy Jean also worked at the international relief and development agency, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and served as a missionary and youth director in Laos, Alabama, and Atlanta. In Washington, she worked for the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church in advocacy and awareness raising around the continuing effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam. She recently received her PhD in Community Development-Public Affairs from Rutgers-Camden. Peggy Jean received her M.S. from Rutgers-Camden in Public Affairs, her M.Div. from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and her B.A. from Fordham University in communications. Peggy Jean currently serves on the boards of Room in the Inn-Memphis, an organization that shelters those experiencing homelessness in a safe environment of hospitality; Volunteer Odyssey, Memphis’s one-stop shop for meaningful volunteer experiences; and Metropolitan Inter-faith Association (MIFA), an organization supporting independence of vulnerable seniors and families. She is an ordained minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  Peggy Jean is passionate about justice, diversity and equity, and all things food-related. She lives in Memphis with her husband, Matt and her twin girls, Joji and Luca.