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Min-Ah Cho is an associate teaching professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University. Her research and teaching focus on Christian mysticism and contemplation, feminist and de/postcolonial theology, and spirituality and social activism. She is the author of The Silent God and the Silenced: Mysticism and Contemplation amid Suffering (2025) and is currently working on a new book, tentatively titled Mystical Patiency: Attention, Displacement, and Ethical Response, which is under contract with Columbia University Press.

Sherie Gayle is a Ph.D. candidate in theology and religious studies at Georgetown University and has served as a residential minister at Georgetown since 2020. Her dissertation examines the portrayal of Bilqīs, the Queen of Sheba, in Abū Isḥāq al-Thaʿlabī's ʿArāʾis al-Majālis fī Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʾ , an eleventh-century collection of stories of the prophets. As one of four 2024–2025 Georgetown University in Qatar Dissertation and Teaching Fellows, she taught courses including the Problem of God: Bodies on the Margins of Religious Texts and Contexts and Women, Gender, and Power in the Abrahamic Religious Traditions. With more than two decades in women’s ministry, including six years as an ordained women’s pastor at the predominantly Black Greater Baltimore Church, she is a dedicated advocate for the empowerment of women, particularly Black women.

Gabrielle M. Matlock is the outreach manager for the Berkley Center's Women Faith Leaders Fellowship. She aligns her work with championing the global impact of women faith leader's empowerment of women and girls across the diverse countries within Eastern and Western Africa. She previously served as the program manager at the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, spearheading the operations in evidence-based experiential learning in support of the 2023 inaugural cohort of women religious faith leaders fellowship amplifying the voices of Catholic sisters from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. Gabrielle is pursuing a Master of Divinity degree at Howard University School of Divinity, has a Master of Urban Planning in international and economic development from the University at Buffalo - SUNY, and is a previous graduate of Howard University.

Andrew Prevot is the Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies; senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; and professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University. He studies the vital roles that Christian spirituality plays in contemporary theology, philosophy, culture, and politics, with a particular focus on Roman Catholic and Black/African American traditions. He is the author of The Mysticism of Ordinary Life: Theology, Philosophy, and Feminism (Oxford University Press, 2023); Theology and Race: Black and Womanist Traditions in the United States (Brill, 2018); and Thinking Prayer: Theology and Spirituality amid the Crises of Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015). He co-edited Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics (Orbis Books, 2017) and has published more than 30 articles and essays. Before coming to Georgetown, he was on the faculty at Boston College. He holds a Ph.D. and M.T.S. in systematic theology from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. in philosophy from Colorado College.