Meet the Team

Extending transformative hospitality through faith-based relationships with international students — across 131 countries and 53 campuses.

Meet the Frontier Commons team

Andrew Feng · Executive Director, Frontier Commons Ryan Finke · Co-Founder, Frontier Commons Autumn Hanline · Co-Founder, Frontier Commons

NextGen Leaders — Advisors & Practitioners

AngeloDougJeeminJonathanJoyceNick

Collective Experience

Our team brings together backgrounds across ministry, higher education, and global industry.

Where We Work

Dallas Hong Kong Los Angeles Manila New York Tokyo

Advisors

10 advisors — former directors, founders, church planters, and missionaries. They challenge us monthly on what's actually working.

AaronSocial ventures + tech strategy

AlexProduct leadership + global scaling

BernieGaming ministry + accounting

GretaGovernment research + data

HarkimCreative strategy + storytelling

LeitonMinistry pioneering + mobilizer

LisaSpiritual formation + strategy

MattTech co-founder + ministry

NelsonData engineering + systems

SamuelGlobal ministry + coaching

Institutional Accountability

A ministry of IFI Partners — 47 years of faithful, audited, accountable work.

ECFA MemberAccredited

GuideStar Platinum2025

Charity NavigatorRated

BBB RatedColumbus

Ministry WatchMonitored

Great NonprofitsTop-Rated 2024

Board of Directors

10 board members + CEO (non-voting). Governance, oversight, and strategic direction.

Michael BouchardChair

Michael Sanders, CPATreasurer

Alan C. deVriesSecretary

CJ DeasDirector

Mai DuffDirector

Karl FoxDirector

Rick NegleyDirector

Ed RuleDirector

Hong Frances TengDirector

Laura WyniaDirector

30 Years of Empowered Alumni

50+ ISEED alumni across 16 nationalities — the proof that empowerment works when students go home prepared.

Y.I. (East Asia)

Cross-cultural worker for 15+ years after returning home

T.H. (East Asia)

Senior government education official shaping policy in their home country

Smita Noronha (India)

Trains Christian entrepreneurs to integrate faith and work

ISEED (International Student Empowerment and Equipping for Discipleship), 1996–2025

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