Margaret Farrell is a member of the Religious Sisters of Charity, originally from County Cork in Ireland. She has ministered in Ireland and England as a prison chaplain, in a domestic violence shelter and in outreach to the homeless. For the past 20 years she has been living and working in California, and is currently working as the spiritual ministry coordinator at Covenant House California.
Frank Chikowore is an award-winning independent multimedia journalist based in Harare, Zimbabwe, who covers politics, business and other news in southern Africa.
Pamela Schaeffer is an independent writer and editor in St. Louis, with more than 35 years full-time work as a journalist specializing in religion. Her experience includes editorial roles at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Religion News Service, the Society of the Sacred Heart, Catholic Health Association and National Catholic Reporter, where she is a former managing editor. She holds a doctorate in historical theology from St. Louis University.
Carlos Tautz is a journalist based in Rio de Janeiro. He mostly writes about human rights, international issues and economy.
Sister of Mercy Jeanne Christensen lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and serves as the justice advocate against human trafficking for the Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Community. She is actively involved in many local, county, state and national anti-human trafficking groups, and is a member of the board of directors of the U.S. Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking.
Adele McKiernan is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where they studied history and integrated liberal studies. They are now a second-year Loretto Volunteer in St. Louis working at Missouri Health Care for All, as a Grassroots Organizing Fellow.
Sr. Martha Owen is an Ursuline Sister of Cleveland. Her ministries have included teaching middle school science and a variety of administrative positions in high schools. She did post-graduate work in international relations, and served on the Cleveland Latin American Mission Team in El Salvador. While in that position, she was mission partner to Ursuline Sr. Dorothy Kazel, one of the four churchwomen murdered there in 1980; she also worked with the martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero.
Luisa Derouen was a member of her founding congregation, the Eucharistic Missionaries of St. Dominic, for 48 years. In 2009, they and seven other congregations became the Dominican Sisters of Peace. With a graduate degree in liturgy and credentials in spiritual direction, until the 1980s she ministered primarily in rural parishes in religious education and pastoral ministry.
Michael Sean Winters is the author of Left At the Altar: How Democrats Lost The Catholics And How Catholics Can Save The Democrats (Basic Books, 2008). His biography of the Rev. Jerry Falwell, God's Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right was published by Harper One in January 2012 to critical acclaim.
Jacqueline Small works for Monasteries of the Heart and Benetvision, ministries of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, which offer resources for contemporary spirituality with a global audience. She completed a master's degree in divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary in 2016 and a master's degree in social work at Rutgers University in 2017.