Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi is Assistant Professor of Leadership and Formation and Director of the Office of Professional Formation at Iliff School of Theology. As a scholar-practitioner, she brings nearly two decades of higher education and ministry experience to her interdisciplinary teaching in the areas of leadership theory and praxis, congregational and community formation and change, contextual education, and applied research methods. Lizardy-Hajbi is the author of Unraveling Religious Leadership: Power, Authority, and Decoloniality (Fortress, 2024), co-editor of Explore: Vocational Discovery in Ministry (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), and a regional advisor for the Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations (EPIC) research project through Hartford Institute for Religion Research. She is an Ordained Minister in the United Church of Christ.

Rebecca Makas is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Villanova University. Her research focuses on medieval Islamic mystical philosophy, ineffability, and theory of mysticism.

Carol B. Duncan, PhD, is a full professor of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada). Professor Duncan's research interests include Caribbean religions in transnational and diasporic contexts, African Diaspora studies, religion and popular culture and gender studies.

Haruka Umetsu Cho teaches in the religious studies department at Santa Clara University, located in Northern California. Her teaching and research address liberation using literature from decolonial, feminist, and queer perspectives.

Molly Greening is an artist, activist, and academic living on the ancestral homelands of the Potawatomi, Odawa, and Ojibwe Nations in Skokie, Illinois. They are an instructor in the department of Theology and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Racial Justice at Loyola University Chicago. Molly's upcoming publications address topics such as neurodiversity and intersectional coalition building, challenging the church industrial complex through decolonial historical critique, the globalization of "gender ideologies," and the viability of doing something called "queer ethics."

Laura Carlson Hasler is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at Indiana University (Bloomington) and holds the Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Hebrew Bible. She is the author of Archival Historiography in Jewish Antiquity (Oxford University Press).

Fred Glennon’s field of teaching and research is in the areas of Religion, Social Ethics, and Society, particularly their interrelationship with public policies on welfare, poverty, and labor markets. His most recent book is Christian Social Ethics: Models, Cases, Controversies (Orbis Books, 2021). Fred also engages in the scholarship of teaching and learning, in which the classroom setting becomes a locus of sustained scholarly focus. His most read essays include, "Promoting Freedom, Responsibility, and Learning in the Classroom: The Learning Covenant a Decade Later," and “Experiential Learning and Social Justice Action: An Experiment in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning,” both published in Teaching Theology and Religion (2008, 2004). He served as the Editor of Spotlight on Teaching (2013-2017). He received the AAR’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2008). At Le Moyne, he has been honored with the Kevin G. O’Connell, SJ Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities (1999-2002), the Robert O’Brien, SJ Service Award (2014), and the Magis Award (2023).