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Jim Simpson

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Jim Simpson has served as the executive director of the Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University since its creation in 2021. Before joining Georgetown, he served as political director at Sojourners, a Christian advocacy organization focused on social justice issues. Prior to joining Sojourners, he served as a legislative aide to Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and as a legislative correspondent on the Democratic staff of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship following an internship in the office of Senator Mark Warner (D-VA). Before his work in the Senate, he spent time in Kerala, India, through the Young Adult Volunteer Program (YAV) through the U.S. Presbyterian Church. Simpson is a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.