Michele Morek is an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, Kentucky. She worked for Global Sisters Report from January 2017 to July 2022 as liaison to women religious and organizations in North America. She holds a doctorate in biology from the University of Notre Dame and worked for many years as a professor and administrator at the college/university level. She also served for 14 years in congregational leadership positions, including six years as community leader.
Nicole Trahan, FMI, professed first vows as a member of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate (Marianist Sisters) in June 2008 in San Antonio, Texas. Since then she has lived in Dayton, Ohio, where she professed perpetual vows in August 2013. She served as a campus minister at the University of Dayton for three years. Currently, she teaches sophomore religion at Chaminade Julienne Catholic High School, serves as the national director of vocations for the Marianist Sisters and is director of the pre-novitiate program for her province.
Lissy Maruthanakuzhy is a member of the worldwide Congregation of the Daughters of St. Paul, founded in Italy by Blessed James Alberione in 1915, and is committed to proclaiming Christ through social communications. She is a former editor of Pauline Publications in Mumbai. She was a correspondent for South Asian Religious News and Union of Catholic Asian News before becoming a correspondent of Matters India. She also contributes to local periodicals.
Jo Piazza is an award-winning journalist and the author of several book, including the critically acclaimed, If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission. She is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, Glamour, Gotham, the Daily Beast and Slate. She has also appeared as a commentator on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR.
Gene Palumbo is a freelance journalist based in San Salvador. He also teaches at the Casa de la Solidaridad, a semester-long study-abroad program for U.S. university students.
Anne E. Patrick, SNJM, was William H. Laird Professor of Religion and the Liberal Arts, emerita, at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and the author of Conscience and Calling: Ethical Reflections on Catholic Women’s Church Vocations. She was a member of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, a former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and a founding vice-president of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology.
Adelaide Ndilu is a member of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Kenya. After careers as teacher, administrator, and secretary, she studied mass communication. She now produces stories on church and justice topics for Radio Waumini, a Nairobi Catholic radio station.
Gemma Cruz, Ph.D., is senior lecturer in theology at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Edmund Kee-Fook Chia, Ph.D., is co-director for the Centre for Interreligious Dialogue and senior lecturer in the School of Theology at Australian Catholic University in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Carol K. Coburn is a professor emerita of religious studies and director of the CSJ Heritage Center at Avila University. She is also a consultant for the Buchanan Initiative for Peace and Nonviolence at Avila University. Coburn has published and presented extensively on the topic of American Catholic sisters, including a co-author book with Martha Smith, CSJ, Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920.