Berkley Center

Michael Brandt is a child clergy abuse survivor. A certified surgical technician with 10 years of experience, following a Stage IV cancer diagnosis he changed careers and completed a degree in fine arts at the California State University, San Bernardino, in 2009. He is now retired due to a permanent disability resulting from a bone marrow transplant stemming from his cancer diagnosis. He enjoys painting, writing poetry, and cooking.

Michael (Mike) Hoffman is a childhood sexual abuse survivor. Mike documented his therapeutic healing journey in his book Acts of Recovery: The Story of One Man’s Ongoing Healing from Sexual Abuse by a Priest (2013). He is the recent past board president of Prevent Child Abuse – Illinois, chairman of the Hope and Healing Committee of the Archdiocese of Chicago, and co-founder of The Healing Voices Magazine, a publication dedicated to promoting justice and healing for clerical abuse survivors.

Rev. Gerard J. McGlone, S.J., Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Previously he was an assistant professor of psychiatry in Georgetown University's School of Medicine. Most recently, he was the associate director for protection of minors for the Conference of Major Superiors of Men. He was also recently the chief psychologist and the director of counseling services, as well as faculty and staff psychologist, at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He has been executive director at several major treatment centers for clergy and religious in the United States-Saint John Vianney Center and Guest House, Inc. McGlone is a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Mark Joseph Williams, a clergy abuse survivor, serves as special advisor to Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, Archdiocese of Newark. Williams is also a management consultant and forensic psychological clinician. He has more than 25 years of experience in human resources consulting, retained search, and project leadership.

Dr. Jennifer S. Wortham is a religion, spirituality, and forgiveness research associate at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science. She is also the founder and chair of the Global Collaborative for Child Sexual Abuse Prevention, Healing and Justice. In 2019 she authored a memoir on clergy sexual abuse titled A Letter to the Pope: The Keeper of the Nest.