Board of Advisors

Samuel Rodriguez is the lead pastor of New Season, one of America's most influential megachurches according to Newsmax. Rodriguez is also the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference one of the world's largest Christian organizations and the largest Evangelical Hispanic organization in America. Rodriguez has been recognized by CNN, FOX News, Univision and Telemundo as America's most influential Latino/Hispanic faith leader. Charisma magazine named him one of the 40 leaders who changed the world. The Wall St. Journal named him one of the top 12 Latino leaders, and he was the only faith leader on that list. He has been named among the "Top 100 Christian Leaders in America" (Newsmax 2018) and nominated as one of the "100 most influential people in the world" (TIME 2013).

Rodriguez has advised Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump and frequently consults with members of Congress to advance life, religious liberty, and biblical justice initiatives, including immigration and criminal justice reform. He is the best-selling author of You Are Next, Shake Free, Be Light, and From Survive to Thrive, and executive producer of three films, including BREAKTHROUGH.

Rodriguez is the recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award presented by the Congress of Racial Equality. Rodriguez is regularly featured in CNN, Fox News, Univision, PBS, Christianity Today, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, among others, and frequently consults with Congress advancing immigration and criminal justice reform as well as religious freedom and pro-life initiatives.

In April 2020, Rodriguez was appointed to the National Coronavirus Recovery Commission to offer specialized experience and expertise in crisis mitigation and recovery to help our national, state, and local leaders guide our nation through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rodriguez serves as Senior Pastor of New Season Church, one of America’s fastest growing megachurches and #13 on Newsmax’s Top 50 megachurches in America, with campuses in Los Angeles and Sacramento, Calif., where he resides with his wife Eva and their three children.