Sean McConnell

After moving to San Francisco from Arkansas, Sean McConnell worked as a stage technician for concert promoter Bill Graham. Two years later he founded Cooter Holland Productions, a full-service tour and production management company for alternative rock bands, touring with such bands as The Rev. Horton Heat, Acetone, Jellyfish, and Barrington Levy.

McConnell left the music business in 1994 to complete his BA in religion and philosophy at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., and later received his M. Div. from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, Calif.

After seminary McConnell worked as program producer at Grace.com, the media ministry of Grace Cathedral. He produced content for their award-winning website GraceCathedral.org, which received a Webby nomination for best spirituality website. McConnell produced the streaming media programs and The Forum, a weekly webcast talk show hosted by Grace Cathedral's dean Alan Jones, and featured such guests as Jane Goodall, Dr. Dean Ornish, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, and radical theologian Matthew Fox. He also developed Daily Meditations -- a streaming audio daily office.

McConnell then went to work as Managing Editor for San Francisco's Every Voice Network. EVN is best known for their ground-breaking evangelism/curriculum via media.

Now the Editor for Pacific Church News, the news magazine of the Episcopal Diocese of California, McConnell also works as a consultant to Episcopal churches who are interested in leveraging new media to grow deeper spiritually, more powerful in ministry, and larger in attendance.

He is married to Susan, and they are the parents of Patrick, an aspiring rock star.