Gregory Lee Cuéllar is curator for rare books and manuscripts at Texas A&M University’s Cushing Library in College Station, Texas. He can discuss Mexican colonial history, the Mexican immigrant experience and crypto-Judaism (practicing Jews publicly passing as Catholic) in the New Spain.

Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández is professor of Hispanic theology and ministry and director of the Hispanic Theology and Ministry Program at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. She is a past president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States and has co-chaired the American Academy of Religion’s Latina/o Religion, Culture and Society Group. Her expertise includes pastoral theology, immigration/migration, […]

Juan Martinez teaches Hispanic studies and pastoral leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., where he is assistant dean for Hispanic church studies. He is a Mennonite whose expertise includes Hispanic Protestantism and immigration.

The Rev. Jean-Pierre Ruiz, a Catholic priest who teaches biblical studies and Hispanic theology at St. John’s University in New York, is editor in chief of the Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology. Hispanic religious issues he can discuss include Bible translations, end-times perspectives, ecumenism, relations with Jews and Muslims, immigration and immigration, and clergy.

Megan Reid is an assistant professor of Islam in the school of religion at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She researched an article on the first African-American Muslims to make a pilgrimage to Mecca in the 1930s.

Mary L. Smith is the president of the National Native American Bar Association.

Winona LaDuke, an Anishinaabe, is an author and program director of Honor the Earth, which supports Native environmental issues by working to break the geographic and political isolation of Native communities.

Jacqueline Pata is the executive director of the National Congress of American Indians.

John E. Echohawk, a Pawnee, is executive director of the Native American Rights Fund, a non-profit 501c(3) organization that provides legal representation and technical assistance to Indian tribes, organizations and individuals nationwide. NARF focuses on applying existing laws and treaties to guarantee that national and state governments live up to their legal obligations. Contact Ray […]