James Dalton

James Dalton began their career in 2007 as a Benefits and Entitlement Outreach Specialist at Heartland Health Outreach. During their time there, they assisted homeless patients and organized health fairs for over 250 patients. James then worked as a Communications/Technology Coordinator at Reconciling Ministries Network from 2009 to 2011, where they administered and customized the organization's donor database and maintained multiple websites. In 2012, Dalton joined the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews as a Front End Web Developer. In this role, they updated and managed several organizational websites, built HTML emails for marketing communications, and maintained the client relationship management platform Luminate Online. James later became the Web Development Manager at the same company in 2014, leading a team of frontend web developers and implementing Agile project management. In 2017, they were promoted to Director of Web Services, where they managed a team of full-stack and frontend developers, implemented modern DevOps workflows, and migrated the organization's online fundraising efforts to Azure web services.

James Dalton completed their Bachelor of Arts degree in Photography from Columbia College Chicago, where they attended from 2000 to 2005. James continued their education at Loyola University Chicago, obtaining a Masters of Arts and Science degree in Social Justice, which they completed between 2007 and 2011.