Grisel D’Elena is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of international relations at Florida International University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she is an adjunct professor. She has performed fieldwork abroad with U.N. officials, refugee coalition members and ethnic minorities, specifically in Southeast Asia, where she began to investigate the Rohingya Muslim ethnic […]

Timothy Stacey examines what he calls “spirited” elements in inspiring people to take political and ecological action: myth, ritual, drama, magic, tradition and play.

Julia Duin is a religion, travel, education and mental health journalist and author who has been on staff with five newspapers, including the Washington Times and the Houston Chronicle. Most recently, she was the contributing editor/religion for Newsweek. In recent years, she has helped pioneer reporting on “Arctic religion.”

Cynthia Miller-Idriss is the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University. Miller-Idriss regularly testifies before the U.S. Congress or briefs policy, security, education and intelligence agencies in the U.S., the United Nations and other countries on trends in domestic violent extremism and strategies for prevention and disengagement. To […]

Andrew DeCort is a theologian, writer and ethicist. He is the author of Reviving the Golden Rule and Blessed Are the Others and founder of the Institute for Faith and Flourishing.

Gionathan Lo Mascolo is a Berlin-based political adviser with a focus on democracy, extremism and religion. He is editor of the volume The Christian Right in Europe.

David Kovacs is a founder of the Interfaith Family School, Chicago.

Sarah Bassin is the rabbi in residence for HIAS, where she helps connect clergy and communities to the work of aiding and advocating for refugees and asylum-seekers. As the product of an interfaith background, Bassin is also involved in interfaith work. Contact is via Bassin’s website.

Samira K. Mehta is an associate professor of women and gender studies and the director of Jewish studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of religion, culture and gender, including the politics of family life and reproduction in the United States. Her first book was Beyond Chrismukkah: […]