Dalia El Ariny researches the intersection of multiple identities in interfaith families. Born into an Italian-Egyptian, Catholic Muslim family, El Ariny’s research focuses on the everyday experiences of mixed-faith families in London. She is also the founder of My Mixed Heritage, a welcoming social space for individuals with mixed-faith backgrounds to connect, share experiences and […]

Keren R. McGinity is an educator-activist who specializes in Jewish intermarriage and gender roles. She was the interfaith specialist at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and is also affiliated with the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and teaches American studies at Brandeis University. She was the founding director of the Interfaith Families Jewish Engagement program at Hebrew […]

Bethany Mandel is a conservative Jewish columnist, political and cultural commentator and co-author of Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Indoctrinating a Generation. She has been a vocal critic of the multifaith family movement.

Joshua D. Ambrosius is a professor at the University of Dayton. He regularly teaches courses related to urban housing and faith-based social policy and innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to space exploration.

Béatrice Hainaut is a researcher on space issues for the Institute for Strategic Research, Paris. Her work has focused on the emergence and promotion of behavioral norms relating to the safety of space activities, including religion and spirituality.

David W. Kim is a researcher associated with the Australian National University’s Institute for Space. His research focuses on safety and risk management for astronauts in deep space travel, specifically on psychological well-being during Mars missions.

Roger D. Launius is former chief historian of NASA and most recently associate director for collections and curatorial affairs at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. He now runs his own private historical consultancy and has written on religion and space.

Philip Butler is a professor at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. Butler’s work focuses on the intersections of neuroscience, technology, spirituality and Blackness. He engages in critical and constructive analysis on Black posthumanism, artificial intelligence and pluriversal future realities.

Catherine Hezser is a professor of Jewish studies at SOAS in London. Hezser has examined the ways in which ancient Jews and Christians imagined outer space, the heavens and their occupants and space travel, distinguishing between but also linking this world to another, higher sphere.