Philip Mathew is a journalist based in Bangalore, southern India. He edits Asia Pacific Ecumenical News and writes for Matters India, a news portal that collaborates with GSR and focuses on religious and social issues. He is a former staff of the Christian Conference of Asia in Hong Kong and a former managing editor of the ecumenical paper People’s Reporter.

Mandy Erickson is a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes for National Catholic Reporter; works for FOSNA, a peace organization initiated by Palestinian Christians; and edits articles about health care and higher education.

Mercy Sr. Carol Mucha is currently Director of Mercy Care, ministering in campus ministry at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. Her former ministries included those of teacher, elementary and high school principal, education consultant in the Archdiocese of Chicago, vocation minister, parish and youth minister in Laredo, Texas, and presenter in the lay ministry and diaconate program of the Chicago Archdiocese.

Margaret Susan Thompson is a professor of history at Syracuse University. She is a scholar of the history of women's religious life and has published and spoken extensively on the history of American sisters. She is an associate with the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Monroe, Michigan.

George Rodriguez is a freelance correspondent based in Costa Rica. He's been a correspondent for several international news agencies — Reuters, Inter Press Service (IPS), Agencia Mexicana de Noticias (Notimex) — and has contributed with other media. His beat has been mostly South and Central America, having done intensive coverage of repression under past dictatorships and of internal wars. He has also done work in Europe and West Africa.

Mercy Sr. Larretta Rivera-Williams is originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is coordinator of pastoral care at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in her hometown. Since entering the Sisters of Mercy in 1982, she has ministered as an elementary, secondary and divinity school educator. She has written and produced plays as well as directed and choreographed. Prior to her ministry at St. Leo, she was an associate chaplain at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem.

Mary Priniski is a Dominican Sister of Adrian. In addition to being director of the Boston Labor Guild, she has worked with Southerners for Economic Justice, Interfaith Worker Justice and the Service Employees International Union. She is currently working on Gathering for Mission, a project of Catholic Committee of the South.

Juliet Mousseau, RSCJ, is a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart. She currently serves as the vice president for academic affairs at the Franciscan School of Theology in San Diego. trained as a historical theologian, her writings include medieval theology, the history of her congregation and contemporary questions in religious life.

Brian Bayer is a 2013 graduate of John Carroll University in Cleveland, where he studied international and social issues journalism and Spanish. Upon graduation, he moved to Guayaquil, Ecuador, to do a volunteer year of service. Since the end of his experience as a volunteer, he has remained in Ecuador and now works as a freelance writer and editor for V!va Travel Guides and also as a 12th-grade language arts teacher at Unidad Educativa Bilingüe Nuevo Mundo. His work has been published in International Living and on various travel websites. 

Simone Orendain has returned to work as a freelance multimedia journalist after eight years of caregiving. She reports from the Chicago/Midwest area and Asia, and she regularly covers the Catholic Church in the United States and Asia. She was a foreign correspondent based in Manila for six years before returning to the United States in 2016. In the United States, Simone was an education reporter and regularly covered business and religion.