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Ezekiel Olagoke
Ezekiel Olagoke is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Waynesburg University. He received his doctorate in Religion and Social Change from University of Denver/Iliff Joint Program. He has published chapters and articles on pan-Africanism and African immigrants in the United States. He recently contributed a chapter to Gender, Religion, and Migration: Pathways of Integration by Glenda Bonifacio (Lexington, 2009).
Kristen Lundquist
Kristen Lundquist is the Program Officer for Religion, Security, and Gender at the Institute for Global Engagement. She has served as a consultant to numerous women's NGOs in program management, research and analysis, development, and communications. In 2005, she lived in the Middle East, examining women's roles in Christian-Muslim relations and U.S.-Middle East foreign policy. She holds an M.A. in World History from Eastern Illinois University, a B.A. in Ancient History, and a B.A. in Biblical Studies with a focus on Near East Languages from Northwestern College (MN).
Mark Weiner
Mark S. Weiner is Professor of Law and Sidney I. Reitman Scholar at Rutgers University School of Law. He is the author of Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), which was selected a 2005 Silver Gavel Award winner by the American Bar Association; and Americans without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship (NYU Press, 2006), which was awarded the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. He received his A.B. from Stanford University.
Louay Safi
Louay M. Safi is Common Word Fellow at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. He writes and lectures on issues relating to Islam and the West, democracy, human rights, leadership, and world peace. He is the author of eleven books, including: Palestine: Prophetic Principles Over Prophecies (Outskirts Press, 2009), and The Qur'anic Narrative (Praeger, 2008). He holds a Ph.D. from Wayne State University.
Abdullah Saeed
Abdullah Saeed is the Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is involved in both Muslim-Christian and Muslim-Jewish interfaith dialogue. His publications include Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam, co-authored with Hassan Saeed (Ashgate, 2004), and Interpreting the Qur'an: Towards a Contemporary Approach (Routledge, 2006). He holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies and an MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He earned his BA in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the Islamic University in Medina, Saudi Arabia. His research includes approaches to the interpretation of the Quran today, reform of classical Islamic law, and Islam and human rights, including religious freedom.
Ziya Meral
Ziya Meral is a London-based Turkish analyst, writer, and Ph.D. candidate in Politics at the University of Cambridge. He is a Research Associate at the British think-tank Foreign Policy Centre. Currently, he is researching ethno-religious violence and its prevention as a Joseph Crapa Fellow at the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Jennifer Bryson
Jennifer S. Bryson (Ph.D., Yale) is Director of the Islam and Civil Society Project at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, NJ. She directed the Project's 2010 "Islam and Religious Freedom" seminar, from which the summer 2011 issue of The Review of Faith & International Affairs was derived. She has worked in journalism and for the Department of Defense. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Global Engagement.
Abdullah bin Hamid Ali
Abdullah bin Hamid Ali is a Resident Scholar at Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California. He served as assistant head chaplain for five years at the Chester State Correctional Institution. He specializes in Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh), dialectical theology (‘ilm al-kalam/tawhid), and Maliki jurisprudence (al-fiqh), and he writes on various topics for http://www.lamppostproductions.com/.
Michael Driessen
Michael D. Driessen obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. His dissertation, "Religiously Friendly Democracy: Framing Political and Religious Identities in Catholic and Muslim Societies," explored the institutional role public religions have played in recent democratization processes in the Mediterranean. In 2011-2012, he will be writing a book on the subject as a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar, and will be teaching as an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy afterwards. For recent publications and a periodical blog on religion and state issues, visit http://www.michaeldriessen.com/
Jenna Larson Boyle
Jenna Larson Boyle was a 2011 spring intern at the Institute for Global Engagement. She is a graduate of Boston College and Boston University, where she received her BA in History and Deaf Studies, respectively. She also received her MA in History from Boston College, focusing on Islamic Studies and Mediterranean Societies. She studies Arabic, Persian, and Latin and has spent time living abroad in Turkey and Jordan. She currently lives in Boston, MA.
James Frank
James Frank is an Interactive Developer with Sapient Government Services. He has worked for Bread for the World and the Institute for Global Engagement, and he is a graduate of Wheaton College (IL).
Kim Lawton
Kim Lawton is Managing Editor/Correspondent at PBS's Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. She has worked on assignment in more than 25 nations, and has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2003 Television Excellence in Religion Reporting award from the Religion News Writers Association. Lawton is a frequent commentator on issues of faith and spirituality, appearing on outlets including MSNBC, CNN, and the BBC. Her articles have been published in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, and others. She received a bachelor's degree in communication from Messiah College.
Charles Olmeda
Charles Olmeda is the Founder and Senior Pastor of 3rd Day Worship Center and President of Solutions Services, Inc., a community development corporation in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He currently serves as the East Coast Director for the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC).
Jenny Yang
Jenny Yang is Director of Advocacy at World Relief in Baltimore and co-author of Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate (InterVarsity Press, 2009). She previously worked in the resettlement section of World Relief as the Senior Case Manager and East Asia Program Officer. Previous to World Relief, she worked at the largest political fundraising firm in Maryland. She is a graduate of Wheaton College (IL) and has researched refugee and asylum law in Madrid through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Gabriel Salguero
Gabriel A. Salguero is an Executive of the Latino Leadership Circle, Lead Pastor at Lamb's Church in New York City, and Director of the Hispanic Leadership Program at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and New Brunswick Theological Seminary, and he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Christian Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary. He is the founder of P.O.G. international, a ministry focused on diversity leadership empowerment and training. He is a contributor to The Washington Post's OnFaith blog.
J. Kevin Appleby
J. Kevin Appleby is Director of Migration Policy and Public Affairs at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. He holds a law degree from the University of Maryland and a master's degree in international affairs from George Washington University. He has spoken on immigration issues to local and national groups.
Mathew Staver
Mathew D. Staver is Founder of Liberty Counsel and Professor of Law at Liberty University School of Law. He was Founder and President of The Staver Group, a statewide governmental consulting organization. He has authored more than ten books, including Eternal Vigilance: Knowing and Protecting Your Religious Freedom (B&H Publishing, 2005).
Kyle Longley
Kyle Longley is the Snell Family Dean's Distinguished Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is the author of several books including In the Eagle's Shadow: The United States and Latin America (Harlan Davidson, 2009). He joined the ASU faculty in 1995 after serving as a visiting professor at The Citadel. He holds a B.A. from Angelo State University, an M.A. from Texas Tech University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.
Jen Smyers
Jen Smyers is Associate Director for Immigration and Refugee Policy at Church World Service. She has served as Chair of the Refugee Council USA Advocacy Committee and Co-chair of the Legislative Committee for the Interfaith Immigration Coalition. Recently, she helped enact legislation to prioritize family unity in the immigration system and assist and admit Iraqi refugees. Smyers holds bachelor's degrees in law and society and public communication and an MPP from American University.
Mark Tooley
Mark Tooley is President of the Institute on Religion & Democracy. His articles about the political witness of America's churches have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The American Spectator, The Weekly Standard, Human Events, The Washington Times, Touchstone, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Post, and elsewhere. Prior to joining IRD in 1994, Tooley worked as an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency. He is a graduate of Georgetown University. Since 1993 he has served as a board member of Good News, an evangelical renewal caucus within United Methodism.
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