Claudia Aguilar Rubalcava is pastor at First Mennonite Church of Denver, Colorado. Being bilingual, bicultural, and binational is part of her call to build bridges among different groups of people. She is a certified yoga instructor and loves music, dogs, cooking, and baking. She is interested in ecumenical and interfaith efforts to bring justice and peace to every being. When not working, she is spending time in her garden with her husband Doug and their dog Bruno. 

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Twitter: @AxiaDharma

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Kaitlin (“Kata”) Ho Givens was a minister with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship for 12 years, received her Masters of Divinity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and is currently a church planter in East Boston. She cares about the empowerment of lay leaders, radical hospitality of "outsiders," cross-cultural communities committed to reconciliation and justice. She loves languages, working out, and gardening.

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Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter’s teaching and research interests are in Black & Womanist Theological Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Religion & Food, and Religion & Animals. His publications include The Spirit of Soul Food (University of Illinois Press, 2021), “Blood in the Soil: The Racial, Racist, and Religious Dimensions of Environmentalism” in The Bloomsbury Handbook on Religion and Nature (Bloomsbury, 2018) and the co-edited volume The Future of Meat Without Animals (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). In them, he explores the intersectional oppressions experienced by people of color, the environment, and animals. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of San Diego and a Faith in Food Fellow at Farm Forward.

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Twitter: @Dr_ChrisCarter

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Dr. Lynn Cooper is the Catholic Chaplain at Tufts University, where she serves on an interfaith chaplaincy team. She holds a Masters of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and a Doctor of Ministry in Transformational Leadership from Boston University School of Theology. Dr. Cooper’s ministry is grounded in Catholic Social Teaching. She seeks to help students make meaningful connections between their education, faith, and the work for justice. Her doctoral work explored loneliness in higher education, proposing a model for embracing friendship as the sacrament that it is. Her spouse, Andrew, is a Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain. Together they delight in their son Rory. If becoming a mom has taught her anything it is that spirituality can—and must—thrive in the messy, mucky, and mundane.

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Dr. Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan is President and Professor of Hebrew Bible at Claremont School of Theology. Dr. Kuan has served on the faculties of the Pacific School of Religion and the Graduate Theological Union as well as Dean and Professor of Hebrew Bible of the Theological School at Drew University. Dr. Kuan’s research and teaching interests include ancient Israelite and Near Eastern history, Asian and Asian American hermeneutics, the Book of Job, as well as approaches to biblical instruction for the churches. He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and holds a B.Th. from Trinity Theological College in Singapore, an M.T.S from the Perkins School of Theology at SMU, and a Ph.D. from Emory University. 

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Twitter: @JeffreyKuanCST

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Theresa S. Thames is the Associate Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel at Princeton University. As an ordained Elder in the United Methodist Church, she served as a pastor in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area for nine years. Theresa is a graduate of Howard University, received her Master of Divinity from Duke University Divinity School, and a Doctorate of Ministry from Wesley Theological Seminary in Leadership Excellence exploring how best to equip young clergywomen of color to thrive in ministry. Theresa is also the founder of Soul Joy Yoga LLC, an in-person and online gathering that inspires womxn and folx of color to discover their deepest truths and cultivate joy. Theresa is a wife, transformation coach, challenging preacher, certified yoga teacher, dog mama, and devoted friend. She is a lover of life who prioritizes self-care and believes that radical joy is resistance.

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Twitter: TSThames

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Sheehan Scarborough is Senior Director of the Harvard Foundation and Interim Director of the Office of BGLTQ Student Life (the QuOffice). His work oversees the programming and services provided by the QuOffice and develops the strategic vision for supporting BGLTQ students at Harvard College. 

Sheehan’s academic focus includes religion and sexuality, pastoral care and counseling, and politics. He loves squash (the sport), graphic novels, video games, the Hebrew Bible, and good storytelling. Sheehan holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. 

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Dr. Hong is Assistant Professor of Educational Ministry and Director of DEdMin Program at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. Her interests include decolonial approaches to religious and interreligious education as well as Asian American spiritualities and the spiritual and theological formation of children and adolescents among communities of color. Christine is a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and has spent time as a religious educator and youth and young adult minister in New York and Southern California. She received her B.A. from the University of Washington, holds a Th.M and M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and has a Ph.D. from Claremont School of Theology.

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Rev. Dr. Marilyn Pagán-Banks (she/her/ella) is a queer womanist minister, healer, writer, and life-long co-learner committed to the liberation of oppressed and colonized peoples, building power, and creating community. She currently serves as executive director of A Just Harvest, pastor at San Lucas UCC, and adjunct professor at McCormick Theological Seminary.

Rev. Pagán-Banks received her Masters of Divinity from McCormick Theological Seminary and her Doctorate in Ministry from the Chicago Theological Seminary where she has twice been named Hispanic Scholar. She is a joyful contributor in the newly released book “Words of Her Mouth: Psalms for the Struggle.” Rev. Pagán-Banks lives in Chicago with her spouse and loves laughing and dancing with her beautiful grandchildren.

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Twitter: @mujerdediosMPB

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Dorlimar Lebrón was born in Puerto Rico and raised in New York. She currently serves as Lead Pastor at the First Spanish United Methodist Church, also known as, “The People’s Church” in Spanish Harlem. Dorlimar holds a Bachelor in Sociology concentrating on Black and Latinx Studies from the City College of New York and a Masters in Divinity with a focus in Liberation Theology and Ethics from Boston University School of Theology. Her passion centers around de-cloaking, naming and resisting injustice in our society. She is a sister, a daughter and believer in change. In all things she strives to create spaces where love, hope, peace, justice, and liberation are imagined, created and sustained.

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Twitter: @habichula

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