Judy Halper is the board chair of the Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies and the CEO of Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Minneapolis.

Sister Donna Markham is the president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA. Contact Patricia Cole with media inquiries.

Zahid Hussain is the director of hunger prevention for ICNA Relief. The relief organization is part of the Islamic Circle of North America.

Michel Desjardins researches the role food plays in people’s spiritual lives at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Bill Tibbitts is the associate director and coalition of religious communities director of Crossroads Urban Center. The nonprofit, grassroots organization assists and organizes Utahans with low incomes, those with disabilities and people of color to meet basic needs and quality of life issues.

Laurie Paarlberg is a professor of philanthropic studies at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis.

The Rev. Mike Kinman is the rector of All Saints Church in Pasadena, California. The church launched Safe Haven Bridge to Housing amid the pandemic to provide a safe, temporary place to sleep.

David Schuck is a rabbi at Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, New York. He also is an adjunct lecturer in the Jewish Theological Seminary’s professional and pastoral skills department of the rabbinical school.