Kristen Capel is the lead pastor at Easter Lutheran Church in Eagan, Minn., one of the largest Lutheran congregations in the U.S. Read a Sept. 22, 2011, story from the Metro Lutheran about the importance of her appointment.

Ordain Women Now is an organization that advocates the ordination of women clergy in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the more conservative Lutheran denomination in the United States. Elizabeth Goodine is the group’s president. Contact via the website.

The Rev. Trudy Robinson is a United Methodist Church clergywoman and was a leader in its Lead Women Pastors Project from 2008 to 2011. She leads the First United Methodist Church of Cheyenne, Wyo.

Hee Ann Choi is the director of the Anna Howard Shaw Center at Boston University’s School of Theology. She was the lead investigator on a 2012 study of retention of women clergy.

The Anna Howard Shaw Center at Boston University School of Theology is an ecumenical center focused on women in the clergy and women’s issues in religion that is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. In 2012, the center published a study on the retention of women clergy. Rev. Dr. Hee An Choi is the director […]

Dalia Hashad is the Arab, Muslim, South Asian advocate for the American Civil Liberties Union. She is part of the Campaign Against Racial Profiling, which focuses on issues facing Arab, Muslim and South Asian Americans in a post-9/11 world. 

Christine Caine and her husband, Nick, are Christian evangelists and founders of the global anti-trafficking organization known as the A21 Campaign. She has written several books and speaks passionately on the subject of human trafficking. The Caines live in Sydney, Australia.

Katie Conway is an immigration and refugee policy analyst for the Episcopal Church in its Office of Government Relations in Washington, D.C. She can discuss the church’s work in the crisis involving unaccompanied children migrants.

Nancy Springer is the assistant rector at St. Alban’s Episcopal Day School, and is the former assistant rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in McAllen, Texas. In her former position, she and her congregation worked with other border churches and government agencies to help unaccompanied children and other migrants in U.S. custody.