Benjamin Knoll is a politics professor at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He partnered with Jana Riess on surveys of millennial members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

With gun violence on the rise across America, more faith groups are getting involved in gun control debates.

Pardeep Singh Kaleka is executive director of the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee. He’s also a member of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, the site of a 2012 mass shooting. Kaleka lost his father in the shooting.

Movita Johnson-Harrell is a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. She got involved in gun violence prevention efforts after the death of her son in 2011 and became the first Muslim member of the Pennsylvania Legislature in 2019.

Rabbi Seth M. Limmer leads Chicago Sinai Congregation, a faith community involved in gun violence prevention efforts.

The Rt. Rev. Eugene Sutton is assistant bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. He was one of three conveners of Bishops United Against Gun Violence, an ad hoc group of around 60 Episcopal leaders. Contact is through Allen Fitzpatrick. 

The Rev. Sharon Risher is a spokesperson for Everytown Survivor Network and Moms Demand Gun Sense in America. Her mother, Ethel Lee Lance, died in the Mother Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston in June 2015. Use the contact form on Risher’s website to arrange an interview.

Katy Rigler is lead pastor of St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church in Richardson, Texas. Her congregation plans to lead a Bible study on gun violence this fall. Contact her using this form.

The Rev. Michael Pfleger is senior pastor for the Faith Community of St. Sabina in Chicago. He helps lead an annual march against gun violence.