Nancy Sinkoff is professor of Jewish studies and history at Rutgers University. Sinkoff’s research interests include Jewish history, Jewish politics, Jewish labor and the Jewish left.

The Global Faith and Work Initiative aims to equip pastors and city leaders to edify the laity of the church to be missional in all areas of their vocation and life, leading to the flourishing of their cities. It grew out of Timothy Keller’s Redeemer, New York City.

The Jewish Labor Committee serves as a voice in the labor movement, working to enable the Jewish community and the trade union movement to work together on important issues of shared interest and concern.

The Labor Religion Coalition of New York State is a nonprofit that works with faith groups, labor organizations and other communities in a statewide movement for social, racial and economic justice. E. West McNeill (they/them) serves as executive director and primary contact. 

Lloyd D. Barba is a historian of religion in the Americas with training in Latinx history; American race, ethnicity and immigration; and the American West/Mexico borderlands. His scholarship on Mexican farmworkers in California (1906-1966) is based on oral histories and extensive archival research.

Leela Prasad is a religion professor at Duke University, whose work focuses on South Asia, Hindu worlds, gender, colonialism & decoloniality, prison pedagogy & Gandhi, and religion & modernity. She has written on Hindu pilgrimage in South India.

James Lochtefeld is a professor of religion and Asian studies at Carthage College, who specializes in Hindu pilgrimage. His book God’s Gateway (2009) is about the north Indian pilgrimage city of Hardwar.

M. Shobhana Xavier is a professor of religion at Queen’s University in Canada. Her work focuses on contemporary global Islam and Sufism, with particular regional interests in North America (United States and Canada) and South Asia (Sri Lanka) examining sacred spaces, rituals, practices, memory and  gender dynamics.

Russ Eanes is a writer, walker and cyclist from Harrisonburg, Virginia, a freelance publishing consultant and a travel coach and guide. He has written books on pilgrimage in Spain and Italy.