Berkley Center

Shaun Casey is a senior fellow with the Luce Project on Religion and Its Publics at the University of Virginia and a Pulaski Institution non-resident fellow. He served as director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and professor of the practice in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University from 2017 to 2021. He previously was U.S. special representative for religion and global affairs and director of the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs. He has also served as professor of Christian ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC, and held positions at the Center for American Progress and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Casey has written on the ethics of the war in Iraq, as well the role of religion in American presidential politics. He is the author of The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960 (2009) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Political Theology (forthcoming, with Michael Kessler); he is writing a book on ethics and international politics tentatively titled Niebuhr’s Children. Casey holds a B.A. from Abilene Christian University, MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, and M.Div. and Th.D. in religion and society from Harvard Divinity School.

Bishop Leah Daughtry is a faith leader, political strategist, public theologian, activist-organizer, and author. She is presiding minister of The House of the Lord Churches, co-founder of Black Church PAC, and co-convenor of Power Rising. She was CEO of the 2008 and 2016 Democratic National Conventions.

Cheryl J. Sanders is professor of Christian ethics at Howard University and senior pastor of Third Street Church of God in Washington, DC. Her several books include Empowerment Ethics for a Liberated People, Ministry at the Margins, and Saints in Exile: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture. Her current research is centered on past and present black Christian public intellectual discourses. She is president of the American Theological Society.

Rev. Adam R. Taylor is the president of Sojourners and author of Mobilizing Hope: Faith-Inspired Activism for a Post Civil Rights Generation (2010). Taylor previously led the Faith Initiative at the World Bank Group and served as the vice president of advocacy at World Vision U.S. and as the senior political director at Sojourners.

Rev. Travis B. Winckler serves as the senior pastor at Second Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, MO, a multiracial congregation affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, Rev. Winckler’s ministry resides at the intersection between congregational development and broad-based community organizing amid historically entrenched racial, political, cultural, and economic divides.