Executive Team
Dr. Teresa Moon
Founding President and CEO
Teresa is founding President and CEO of the Institute for Cultural Communicators, where students are getting ready to speak. Despite her own phobia of public speaking as a student, she is now an internationally recognized seminar speaker, education consultant, author, and leadership coach. Curriculum she designed is equipping next generation Christians to influence culture through relevant communication and extraordinary leadership in 25+ countries. Teresa’s students have been invited to speak on tens of thousands of platforms to influence audiences for Christ—including the White House, Congress, the G8 Summit, the United Nations, and for churches, schools, and heads of state in more than twenty nations. Teresa and her husband, Robert, call Tennessee home. Her 4 grown children and five grandchildren fuel her passion for empowering the next generation of transformational collaborators and influencers.
Eunice Au
Director, Volunteer Empowerment
Eunice is an avid reader and loves learning. Since 2012, she has been motivated to create interactive, online learning experiences both in the US and internationally. She has served in the Institute as the Director of the ICC Academy since its inception. Most recently, with her husband Au, she relocated to Singapore to serve with OMF, a global fellowship of Christians with a heart for East Asia. She is now enjoying gardening year-round, buying fresh produce in open-air wet markets, and connecting with her three daughters in the US via WhatsApp. She loves to empower others to serve with excellence and integrity, to follow Christ with confidence, and to labor with faithfulness for the advance of God’s heavenly kingdom.
Brian Eliason
Director, ICC Forensics Society
A California native, Brian Eliason helps lead families, classrooms, and community groups to equip next-generation Christian leaders with the vital skills they need for success. Holding a graduate degree in Physics, with a specialty in Applied Optics, Brian has brought this knowledge not only to his work for corporations like McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, but also into his ministry. Brian served as a teaching leader for Bible Study Fellowship for 17 years, which has empowered him to encourage dads walking out their faith at home and in the workplace. He and his wife currently live in the Central Valley of California with Brian’s greatest achievement, his daughter Rachel, who has recently toured the globe with ICC as a speech and leadership Ambassador.
Jane Lukachick
Director, Student Leadership
When Jane attended her first Communicators for Christ conference in 2007, she fell in love with ICC and helped start a chapter with a friend in Prairieville, Louisiana. Two years later, she became a Chapter Sponsor, then served both student and adult teams in a variety of leadership roles. We are thrilled to have her as point person for Student Leadership! She and her husband, Mark, have ten children and even more grandchildren, and one of her favorite “hobbies” is traveling with Mark around the country visiting all of them.
Lisa McLean
Director, People Care
With a degree in education and twenty years’ experience in home education, Lisa McLean shares her extraordinary gift of problem solving in relationship in her work on ICC’s People Care Team. She uses her role to equip people in parenting, mentoring, and loving well. Lisa and her husband have raised their six children with a heart for genuine cultural communication. All of their children—and two of their grandchildren— spent years training with ICC into adulthood. Having traveled internationally with ICC several times, working with a global community challenges her to develop new skills and ways of thinking, to learn from other cultures, and to appreciate the immensity and diversity of the Church. Her passion: to disciple Christ-followers in wisdom, respect, and holiness.
An Normand
Director, Global Engagement
As ICC’s Director of Global Engagement, An Normand equips and mentors people in intergenerational and intercultural settings in storytelling and cultural intelligence (CQ). Born in Africa and raised in Belgium, An has worked and participated in missions worldwide. She holds certifications through the Cultural Intelligence Institute and has worked with our Global Development Team to build and improve the Institute’s curricula and to translate those curricula into other languages. An’s son Daniel and daughter Elise both served in leadership roles in the Institute. An enjoyed traveling to Southeast Asia with Elise on the 2018 IMPACT trip, and has returned there several times with new teams since.
Julie Rambo
Director, Adult Leadership
Julie Rambo is an artist, gardener, lover of Jesus, and a homeschool graduate. Julie believes teens should be challenged to step out of their comfort zone. At 17, she became the director of a children’s ministry running 12-week Bible camps with teams from across the Eastern United States. She attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY to study Communication Design with an emphasis in Illustration. Her dream is to create art that shares a story. Julie lives in South Carolina with her husband and their four children. Julie wants to influence today’s culture by discipling the next Christian generation. Julie has been a successful leader – fundraising for her chapter, helping grow leaders and resources, and building influence in her community. We’re inspired by how she coaches our adults to be better coaches themselves.
Jenae Whitehead
Director, Operations
Jenae first joined a chapter in Louisiana in 2007 when her oldest daughter was 6. Her eight children have literally grown up in the Institute! She moved to Michigan in 2016 and has served in the roles of Chapter Sponsor, Student Leader Liaison, and Student Leader Services Coordinator on the Student Leader Development team. Now, she’s helping keep the ICC engine running as Director of Operations. She enjoys increasing her learning through online classes and reading books. She has learned that slow is fast in the development of her children as well as in her own personal growth.
Amy Yen
Director, International Relations
Amy is one of the pioneers that started the first ICC international chapter in Singapore in 2010 and helped organize the first Communicators for Christ conference in East Asia in 2014. She was an ICC Chapter Sponsor before starting the first United Kingdom chapter in Leeds. Seeing the need for ICC in Europe, she organized and hosted the first European Communicators for Christ conference in Nov 2019. Before homeschooling her children full time, Amy was a lecturer in the local polytechnic, training students in intercultural communication and life skills subjects. Her passion for intercultural studies has led her to Indonesia, Australia, and Vietnam as well as finding a home in both Singapore and the UK. Amy is active in her local church ministries like the English class for migrant ladies and café ministry for the homeless and needy.