Karima Bennoune is a professor of international law at the University of California, Davis, and the author of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here.

Professor Pashaura Singh is the Jasbir Singh Saini Endowed Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at the University of California Riverside. He is a Sikhism expert.

Kristy Slominski is a doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is an expert on gender and sexuality in American religious history.

JLens is a San Francisco-based organization that aims to spur “impact investing,” or investment whose goal is to “positively impact the world and minimize harm,” according to JLens’ website.

Fair Trade Judaica is a California-based organization that aims to promote fair trade, educate the Jewish community, and support and grow the production, distribution, and sale of fair trade Judaica products.

Rabbi Yoel Kahn serves as the rabbi for Congregation Beth El in Berkeley, California. He is an author and has spoken at conferences and in other venues about Reform decision making, spirituality, and issues of sexuality, feminism, and theology.

Rabbi Mychal Copeland is the Director of InterfaithFamily/Bay Area. She has worked in the University of California, Los Angeles, and Stanford University Hillels over the past 13 years.

Gender Spectrum is a national organization that advocates for and supports transgender youth, their families, educators and health providers. It maintains a “topics” page on its website about transgender and faith traditions and faith leaders and publishes a resource guide for faith communities. Lisa Kenney is executive director. Gender Spectrum is based in the San Francisco […]

Alma Lopez is a Los Angeles-based artist whose works frequently feature female Catholic saints as Chicana women with a gender twist. Her “Our Lady,” a rendition of the Virgin of Guadalupe as seminude Chicana boxer, prompted worldwide controversy when it was displayed in New Mexico in 2001. Her most recent show is “Queer Santas: Holy […]