The Rev. Jen Butler is the founder and former CEO of Faith in Public Life, a progressive, faith-based organization that advocates for policies on immigration, LGBTQ rights and other issues. She is ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and previously served as chairwoman of the White House Council on Faith and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Hebah Farrag is grants and impact assessment manager at Legal Aid at Work. Farrag is the former assistant director of research at the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture, where she managed projects such as the Spiritual Exemplars project, a global initiative on engaged spirituality, which is tasked with collecting 100 […]

Lucas Swanepoel is the vice president for social policy for Catholic Charities USA. Contact him through Patricia Cole.

Neal Denton is the chief government affairs officer for the YMCA. He previously served as the senior vice president for government relations and strategic partnerships for the American National Red Cross.

Claire Bonham is the strategic lead for volunteering for The Salvation Army United Kingdom.

Ruha Benjamin is an associate professor in the department of African-American studies at Princeton University. She’s spoken and written about the importance of equity and disability justice in the gene editing debate. Benjamin is the author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier.

Marcy Darnovsky is executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society. She speaks and writes about why scientific advancements such as gene editing are a social justice concern.

Shaun King is a former church pastor, activist and journalist who focuses on social justice and racial justice issues. He is currently a writer-in-residence at Harvard University’s Fair Punishment Project. In 2018, he was the keynote speaker at Washington State University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. Contact via his agent, Josh Katz.