Jenny L. Davis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and a Professor of American Indian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests sit at the intersections of Indigenous language futurism (including language reclamation & revitalization), Queer Indigenous Studies and speculative fiction and poetry.

Ytasha L. Womack is an independent scholar, filmmaker and the author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture.

Kenji Kuramitsu is an Episcopal priest and writer who reflects on liturgy, identity and everyday spiritual practice, often from an Asian American perspective.

Esau McCaulley is a professor of theology at Wheaton College who writes on race, the Bible and public life, bringing Black church traditions into conversation with questions of democracy and the meaning of America.

Kaitlyn Schiess is an evangelical theologian and writer focusing on political theology, church life and generational shifts within American Christianity. She is the author of The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture has been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here (Brazos Press, 2023) and The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual […]

Andrew DeCort is a theologian, writer and ethicist. He is the author of Reviving the Golden Rule and Blessed Are the Others and founder of the Institute for Faith and Flourishing.

David Kovacs is a founder of the Interfaith Family School, Chicago.

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).

Khalil Andani is a religion professor at Augustana College in Illinois. His research focuses on Quranic studies, Islamic intellectual history, Shiite Islam and Sufism. In particular, he is an expert on Shiite Ismaili perspectives, Islamic history and thought, Islamic ethics and Christian-Muslim interactions.