The National Museum of American Religion (NMAR) is a private, non-profit, digital-first museum dedicated to highlighting the role religion has played in shaping the social, political, economic and cultural fabric of American life.

Sohrab Amari is an Iranian-born American journalist, author and editor, best known as a co-founder of the online magazine Compact and U.S. editor of UnHerd and the author of Tyranny, Inc: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty — and What To Do About It (2023). He is a source on politics from a Catholic perspective […]

Peter Manseau is the founding director of the Center for Understanding Religion in American History at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and first curator of religion at the Smithsonian Institute, both in Washington, D.C. He can discuss religious art in America and American history.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is an independent, bipartisan commission created by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) that monitors religious freedom violations abroad and makes policy recommendations to the U.S. federal government.

Mehdi Khalaji is a senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy specializing in Shiʿa politics and Iran’s religious establishment. 

Lindsay Rodriguez is Director of Development & Advocacy at Coptic Solidarity.

International Christian Concern (ICC) is a Washington, D.C.-based, interdenominational human rights organization founded in 1995 that assists Christians they say are facing persecution worldwide. Press contact is Alex Finch.

Erika Gault is Director of the Center for the Study of African American Religious Life and the Lilly Endowment Curator of African American Religious History at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and  Culture. Her work focuses on the intersection of religious history, technology and urban black life in post-industrial America.

The Center for the Study of African American Religious Life (CSAARL) is part of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Media inquiries, interview requests, and press passes for the center should be directed through the NMAAHC Office of Public Affairs.