The Lutheran Education Association is a national network of Lutheran educators, which trains, assists and offers support to its members through conferences and other resources. Jonathan Laabs is executive director.

The National Catholic Educational Association works with Catholic educators to support ongoing faith formation and the teaching mission of the Catholic Church. Its membership includes nearly 140,000 educators serving 1.6 million students in Catholic education. Steven Cheeseman is the NCEA president/CEO. BeeJae Visitacion is director of communications.

Liz Bucar’s research and writing covers a wide range of topics — from sexual reassignment surgery to the politics of religious clothing — but generally focuses on how a deeper understanding of religious difference can change our sense of what is right and good. She is the author of four books, including Stealing My Religion: […]

Cindy S. Lee is a Taiwanese-American spiritual director and aspiring mystic. She leads retreats in the areas of Christian mysticism and BIPOC centered spirituality. She also mentors and trains spiritual directors, and is particularly interested in supporting BIPOC spiritual directors.

A Sacred Home is a company that crafts resources to inspire and encourage families looking to weave faith into their homes and daily lives.

Vanessa J. Avery is an interfaith practitioner and advocate for workplace religious diversity and inclusion. She is the executive director of Sharing Sacred Spaces.

Sarah Luginbill is a visiting assistant professor in history and the humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio. Luginbill is interested in the intersection of museums and objects, especially religious or spiritual items. She currently researches portable Mass kits used by Catholic chaplains in the U.S. military during World Wars I and II.

Gwendolyn Gillson researches at the intersection of anthropology of religion, East Asian studies and gender studies. Her work at Illinois College broadly examines how women craft their experiences of Buddhism to deal with the loneliness endemic to the dissolution of traditional Japanese social structures brought about by urbanization and globalization.

Patricia Cecil is a specialist curator at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri. Her work focuses on enhancing insight into the ways faith and religion shaped and were shaped by World War I and its aftermath.