Yavilah McCoy is a teacher, writer, diversity consultant and performer. She has linked the Jewish holiday of Purim to the fight for justice for the African-American community and the Black Lives Matter movement. She founded Dimensions Educational Consulting in Newton, Mass.

Philip Freeman is a professor of Classics at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. His research focuses on Classical Mythology, Ancient Roman Culture, Greece and Rome in film, as well as Latin.

The Rev. Nageeb Michael is a Dominican priest and a scholar at the Digital Center for Eastern Manuscripts. He digitizes historic Assyrian Christian manuscripts, according to a New York Times article, and he fled the city in which he previously worked, Qaraqosh, when the Islamic State gained control of the area. He is a source on art and religion.

Tina Beattie is a professor of Catholic studies at the University of Roehampton in London. She focuses her research on the relationship between the Catholic tradition and contemporary culture with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and reproductive ethics. She also studies Catholic social teaching and women’s rights, and theology and the visual arts.

Jewrotica is a website and online community that offers stories, poetry, columns, advice, essays, and more. It invites people of all religious backgrounds and sexual orientations to read and take part in conversations.

Fair Trade Judaica is a California-based organization that aims to promote fair trade, educate the Jewish community, and support and grow the production, distribution, and sale of fair trade Judaica products.

Jalda Rebling is a founder of the Ohel Hachidusch in Berlin, Germany. Rebling is a teacher and counselor and gives workshops for Jewish congregations internationally.

Kathryn Harrison is a New York Times bestselling author who has published novels, biographies, memoirs, travel memoirs, and essay collections, the most recent of which is a biography entitled Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured. Harrison reviews books for The New York Times Book Review and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Vogue, O Magazine, and more.