Sojourn’s Staff Team


Executive and Organizational Staff


Sojourn’s Board of Directors

Beth Jarvis

Beth Jarvis is the director of the Ministry Resource Center at Milligan University, where she helps ministers connect with each other to thrive in ministry. She is an ordained minister and holds an MDiv from Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan. She and her husband, Daniel Silliman, live in Johnson City, TN.

Patricia A Miller

Patricia works with Thermo Fisher Scientific supporting various initiatives.  She was a part of Reunion Christian Church in Boston for 3 years and BridgePointe Christian Church in Providence for 7 years. It was there that we were introduced to Sojourn and have been a partner now for many years.

Charles Stunson

Charles is a Vice President at CVS Health and focuses on creating value through purchasing pharmaceuticals at a discount from brand, generic and specialty drug manufacturers so that CVS can pass that value to patients. He has earned a Bachelor of Science from Morehouse College and a Master of Business Administration from The Darden School at the University of Virginia. Charles is an avid basketball fan and car enthusiast. In his spare time Charles is either working on his golf game or taking on landscaping projects with his wife at their home in Rhode Island.

Michelle Holliday-Levy

Michelle has worked in the biochemical and utility industries in positions ranging from Director of Global Procurement to Director of Inventory Management. Recently retired, she’s now leveraging her corporate experience and past charitable work to continue giving back to the community.

Richard Knight

Richard is a CPA who started his career in public accounting as an auditor, and most recently is an accounting manager at John Hancock Financial Services. In his spare time he enjoys spending time outside being active, and if you run into him in Boston he will probably be on a bike.

Drew Thurman

Drew is the co-planter of Renaissance, a family of microchurches around the Greater Boston area. He also is the co-founder of Common Good Co, a coffee shop and coworking space based in Waltham, MA. He trains churches and networks on incarnational and missional living as part of the team at Forge America, and local faith-based entrepreneurs in connection to Creo Ventures. He, his wife, and two daughters live in Waltham, MA.

Ethan Brown

Ethan is President of GeoMark Research, an oilfield service company focused on petroleum fluid analysis. Ethan’s career has focused on operations excellence and process improvement, primarily in the Oil & Gas, Aerospace & Defense and Life Science industries. He, his wife and three sons live in Houston, TX.

Genesis Sanchez Tavarez

Genesis is a commercial litigator at Proskauer Rose LLP. She is also a Sojourn alum, having been part of Sojourn as a student while at Rhode Island College from 2017-2020.


Tim Hawkins
is the founding Executive Director of Sojourn. Tim spent 18 years helping to create, shape, and inspire Sojourn to be what it is today. He is moving on to the next opportunity and is no longer officially on staff with Sojourn. We are excited to see how God continues to use Tim and are forever grateful for his role in Sojourn’s story. We look forward to his encouragement from afar as Sojourn continues to help students discover God's dream for their lives!