Mashaun D. Simon

Rev. Mashaun D. Simon is an equity and inclusion advocate who centers his preaching, writing, and scholarship on cultural competency, identity, and equity.

Currently, the metro Atlanta native is the marketing and public relations manager for the Alliance Theatre, a contributing writer for The Reckoning online magazine and co-host of B4Nine: The Podcast. He is the former senior pastor of House of Mercy Everlasting (HOME) in College Park, GA, and a doctoral candidate at Columbia Theological Seminary. His doctoral research engages the theoretical and practical implications of grief in church and society.

An award-winning journalist, Mashaun has written for NBC News, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Black Enterprise, Bloomberg News, Ebony Magazine, and Essence Magazine, among others. In addition to his writing, Mashaun has created and managed cultural competency and affirmative action programming and training. In 2018, Mashaun organized and facilitated Kennesaw State University’s Faith and Sexuality Symposium on behalf of KSU’s Presidential Commission for LGBT Initiatives. He has also provided media relations and marketing support to several institutions of higher education and several non-profit organizations.

Mashaun is a DO GOOD X 2022 startup accelerator Fellow, a member of the 2022-2023 class of Collegeville Institute’s Emerging Writers Fellowship, a member of the inaugural class of the Rising Leaders Fellowship (2021-2022), and a Counter Narrative Project (CNP) Narrative Justice Fellow (2021-2022). Mashaun has served on the board of directors of HOME, on the advisory board for AID Atlanta, the inaugural PRISM board of Teach for America Metro Atlanta, and the advisory board for the CNP. In 2005, Mashaun became the first openly gay person to serve as the student representative on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Black Journalists. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta chapter of NABJ.

He holds a professional writing degree from Georgia Perimeter College, a Bachelor of Science in Communications from Kennesaw State University, and a Master of Divinity from Emory University's Candler School of Theology.

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