Freelance journalist and photographer Nancy Wiechec is a veteran Catholic media professional based in the Phoenix, Ariz., area. She is formerly of Catholic News Service in Washington, D.C. In 2013 she was a finalist for the St. Francis de Sales award, given by the Catholic Press Association for outstanding contributions to journalism. Follow her @nancywiechec on Twitter.

Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans is a frequent contributor to the Global Sisters Report, and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Religion News Service, National Catholic Reporter, Sojourners, Christian Century, The Washington Post and Philadelphia Inquirer. She resides in Glenmoore, Pennsylvania, with her family.

 

Ilia Delio, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Washington, D.C., is the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. She is the author of 16 books, including Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology and Consciousness (Orbis Books 2015), and the general editor of the series Catholicity in an Evolving Universe.

Sr. Clare Nolan recently retired as training coordinator of the Good Shepherd International Justice Office. Good Shepherd is an international woman's religious congregation that is involved in providing social services in about 70 counties, with a particular focus on women and girls in vulnerable situations. The organization has special consultative status with ECOSOC (Economic Social Council) of the U.N.

Zambian born and a Zimbabwe resident, Jill Day writes on people and lifestyles. In addition to working for the Global Sisters Report, she edits farming and fashion magazines in Zimbabwe and has been nominated as editor of the year in both Zimbabwe and South Africa, where she worked previously. Last year she ghosted a biographical cookery book judged the world's second most entertaining cookbook in the Paris International Cookery Book Award.

Michael J. O'Loughlin is executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter.

Mike is also the author of Hidden Mercy: Catholics, AIDS, and Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear, which is based on the podcast series, "Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church," and author of The Tweetable Pope: A Spiritual Revolution in 140 Characters.

Caitlin Hendel joined NCR in July 2013 as managing editor, returning home to Kansas City after 16 years in
Washington, D.C., where she covered the U.S. economy for Bloomberg and Congress for CQ Roll Call. She
also spent 10 years at The Kansas City Star and is a graduate of the University of Kansas. She and her husband
of 30 years, John, have two children. While in Maryland, she was active in various advocacy groups for

Julie Vieira (she/her), is a writer, presenter and thinker in spirituality with particular attentiveness to living the darkness and light — the poetry and rough prose — of everyday life. She is a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Monroe, Michigan. She also works as a retreat director and as a consultant in the unfolding of religious life and mission. Her care for the earth has led her to working with the elements of stone and metal in her art. She holds a Master of Arts in theology from St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto.

Caroline Mbonu is a member of the Congregation of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus. She has a doctorate from Graduate Theological Union and is currently a professor of New Testament in the Department of Religious and Cultural Studies at University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. An interdisciplinary scholar, she employs Scripture, African religious traditions and economics to seek insights into improving women’s participation in social processes.

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