Peter Mandaville is a professor of international affairs and a senior fellow at the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University in Virginia. He writes on political Islam and the origins of mainstream Islamism. As a senior visiting expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace with the religion and inclusive societies […]

Michael De Dora is director of the Center for Inquiry’s Office of Public Policy and the organization’s representative to the United Nations. He also serves as president of the United Nations NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

Yale Divinity School professor Tisa Wenger researches the cultural history of the categories of religion and secularism, the politics of religious freedom and the intersections of race and religion in American history.

Brian J. Grim is president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation, which makes the case that religious freedom is good for business. Formerly at Pew Research Center, Grim is a leading expert on the socioeconomic impact of restrictions on religious freedom and international religious demography.

Shaun Casey served as U.S. special representative for religion and global affairs from 2013 to 2017. He has taught at Harvard Divinity School and the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he also directed the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. Casey’s research interests include ethics and international affairs, the […]

Thomas Farr is president emeritus of the Religious Freedom Institute in Washington, D.C. Farr is the former director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of International Religious Freedom and the Witherspoon Institute’s International Religious Freedom Task Force. Arrange an interview through Nathan Berkeley.

Floyd Abrams is an attorney at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York City. He is an expert on the First Amendment and free speech. For 15 years he served as the William J. Brennan Jr. Visiting Professor of First Amendment Law at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Asma Uddin is the author of When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom. She previously served as counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, where she focused on both international and American religious liberty advocacy. Uddin has extensive knowledge of religious freedom law and a track record of defending […]

Heidi Campbell is a professor of communication at Texas A&M University. She has researched a variety of topics, including online faith communities, new media ethics and the relationship between digital culture and religion. She has studied questions related to the nature of community, identity, authority and authenticity online through ethnography, case studies, interviews and textual analysis.