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Rev. Albert Alejo, S.J., teaches at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He is also co-founder of Apo Governance and Indigenous Leadership Academy, in partnership with the Tagabawa-Bagobo Tribe in Makilala, Cotabato, and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and Development Academy of the Philippines. Among his notable publications are his book Generating Energies in Mount Apo (2003).

Vivienne Angeles is a retired associate professor at the De La Salle University, Philadelphia, USA. She has published on the subjects of Muslim movements, Muslim women, visual expressions of Islam, and Islam in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. As a Fulbright scholar in Malaysia, she researched how Muslim identity is expressed visually through material culture. She co-edited Identity in Crossroad Civilizations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia (2009) and Gender, Religion and Migration: Pathways of Integration (2009).

Rev. Ferdinand Anno is president of of the Union Christian College, La Union, and of STEP (Samahan ng Teolohikal na Edukasyon ng Pilipinas), an association of Theological Schools in the Philippines. He previously taught theology and worship at the Union Theological Seminary, Philippines, and was the past director of its Doctor in Ministry program. As an indigenous pastor of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, he has served parishes in the south-western fringes of the Cordillera region.

Dr. Agnes M. Brazal is a full professor at the Department of Theology and Religious Education at the De La Salle University, Philippines. She is author of A Theology of Southeast Asia: Liberation-Postcolonial Ethics in the Philippines (2019), co-author of Intercultural Church: Bridge of Solidarity in the Migration Context (2015), and editor of eight anthologies on the topic of feminism, migration, cyber ethics, and social ethics in Asia.

​Dr. Cristina Lledo Gomez is Senior Lecturer at BBI-The Australian Institute of Theological Education and Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture. She has various publications including in Ecclesiology, Vatican II, Feminist theologies, Post-Colonialism, and Sexual Abuse. She is author of The Church as Woman and Mother (2018) and co-editor of 500 Years of Christianity and the Global Filipino/a (2024).

Dr. Ma. Marilou Ibita is an associate professor at the Department of Theology and Religious Education at the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. She is also visiting professor of contextual hermeneutical approaches to the Bible at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (FTRS KU Leuven) in Belgium. Her primary research centers around biblical literature and Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Rev. Daniel Franklin Pilario, C.M., is a member of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) in the Philippines. He is the present Vincentian Chair of Social Justice at St. John’s University in New York, and a professor and former dean of St. Vincent School of Theology at Adamson University in the Philippines.

Br. Antonio D. Sison, CPPS, is the Vatican II Chair of Theology and professor of systematic theology at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, Illinois. His research centers around contextual, intercultural, and aesthetic approaches to systematic theology, and his works include The Art of Indigenous Inculturation: Grace on the Edge of Genius (2021).