Michael David Lukas is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University and a novelist engaging Jewish historical and speculative fiction.

Adam Mansbach is an American novelist and screenwriter who uses humor and folklore to explore Jewish identity, history and speculative futures.

Ari Kelman is a professor at Stanford with a focus on forms of religious knowledge transmission. He holds a specific research interest in American Jewry, with insight into how Jewish communities adapt within broader U.S. society.

Tad Stahnke directs the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s international educational outreach as well as its Initiative on Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism. He is also an expert in international human rights law with a focus on religion-state issues and freedom of religion or belief.

Jonathan Fox is the Yehuda Avner Professor of Religion and Politics, director of the Religion and State project and a senior research fellow at Bar-Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. His research investigates the impact of religion on domestic conflict, terrorism, international intervention and international relations.

Nawara Aboud is a graduate researcher at University College, Oxford. Her expertise revolves around the politics of ethnicity, violent conflict, peace-building and post-conflict transformation. In particular, her research focuses on the political trajectories that countries take in the aftermath of civil wars and the economic, social and political dynamics that drive them.

Lex Rofeberg is a rabbi, as well as founder Judaism Unbound and the UnYeshiva, who is in an interfaith marriage and often speaks on this topic.

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.

Rabbi Ari Moffic is director of youth and teen experiences and the Cohen Kadima Program at Mishkan Chicago. She was the founding director of InterfaithFamily/Chicago (now 18Doors).