Danny Kwon, Ph.D., serves as the Senior Director of Youth Ministry Content and Cross Cultural Initiatives for Rooted Ministry. Before joining Rooted, Danny Kwon served as Youth and Family Pastor at Yuong Sang Church, a bicultural, bilingual Korean-American congregation outside Philadelphia for 29 years. He is married to Monica, a Christian counselor and psychologist, and they have three children. He has authored three books, including A Youth Worker’s Field Guide to Parents: Understanding Parents of Teenagers, and Mission Tripping: A Comprehensive Guide to Youth Ministry Short Term Missions. He also serves as an adjunct professor of Youth Ministry at Eastern University, is a certified ministry coach, has contributed to various publications, spoken at ministry conferences across the world, and has mentored 28 youth ministry pastoral interns over the years at his church. Danny holds graduate degrees from Westminster Seminary, Covenant Seminary, and Eastern University. His doctoral dissertation focused on innovation theory and intergenerational youth ministry paradigms in the local church. He enjoys sports, eating, reading, and making people laugh, and now is a youth ministry volunteer in his local church.

Monica Kim, Ph.D., is a psychologist and Christian counselor who has been counseling for almost 20 years. She has also taught counseling courses as an associate faculty at Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation (CCEF) and a lecturer at Westminster Theological Seminary (WTS). She is currently an adjunct faculty at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA and a consultant providing counselor training at CCEF. In addition, Monica has been a seminar speaker at numerous conferences and has worked in church ministry for over 25 years. Monica has a Master of Arts in Religion from WTS and an M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Lehigh University. She is married to Danny, a long-time youth pastor of 29 years at his church and has served with him in their youth ministry, and has three children. She is author of the new book Mental Health and Teenagers: A Handbook for Parents, Pastors, and Youth Leaders, with her husband Danny.