Macky Alston is the Executive Minister and Chief of Staff of Middle Church in the city of New York. He previously served from 2002-19 as Director of Auburn Media and then Senior Vice President for Strategy, Engagement and Media at Auburn Theological Seminary, with the mission of equipping leaders of faith and moral courage to stand for justice. In his capacity as founder and director of Auburn Media, Macky created a range of programs related to media and religion and, with his team, media trained over 10,000 leaders on a wide range of justice issues, including many of the most influential religious leaders of our day.

Macky is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, whose films include Acts of Reparation (soon to be released); Love Free or Die (PBS); Hard Road Home (PBS), The Killer Within (Discovery Films), Questioning Faith (HBO), and Family Name (PBS). He has won at Sundance twice and received the Gotham Open Palm Award, three Emmy nominations, and appeared widely in the press, including on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show and in The New York Times. A graduate of Union Theological Seminary, he comes from a long line of ministers in the American South and grew up exposed to the power of religion, politics and the media, as leaders and movements on the Left and Right shaped society and history for generations to come.