Berkley Center

Greg Baltz (SFS'10) is a legal fellow at NYU's Furman Center, where his research focuses on tenant organizing. Prior to joining Furman, he represented members of New York City's tenant movement while at TakeRoot Justice, as well as immigrant workers organizing against wage theft and discrimination at Make the Road New York. Greg holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. At Georgetown, Greg earned a B.S. in international politics and a certificate in international development. At the Berkley Center, Greg worked as an undergraduate research assistant.

Ryann Craig is special assistant to the vice president for mission and ministry and director of academic initiatives in Georgetown University's Office of Mission and Ministry. From October 2019 through December 2023 she was the director of student programs and an assistant research professor at the Berkley Center, as well as a faculty fellow at the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University. Before joining the Berkley Center, she worked in academic support and student advising as assistant director of academic support at the Catholic University of America. She recently served as a copy editor for the International Qurʾānic Studies Association’s journal and monograph series (2016-2018) and has been involved in a number of religious minority cultural heritage preservation initiatives in the United States, Germany, and Israel/Palestine. Craig completed her Ph.D. (Catholic University of America) on the use of Quranic proof texts by medieval Christian Arabic and Syriac authors while in residence as a doctoral fellow at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. She is co-editor with Vasile-Octavian Mihoc of A Contested Coexistence: Insights in Arabic Christianity from Theology to Migration (Harrassowitz, 2020).

Nicolas "Nico" Lake (SFS'16) is a consultant in Boston Consulting Group's Chicago office, where he specializes in social impact and non-profit clients. He previously worked at two internationally focused non-profits, Freedom House and Eisenhower Fellowships. At Georgetown, Nico majored in international politics and received a certificate in international development. At the Berkley Center, Nico participated in the Junior Year Abroad Network and served as a fellow in the Education and Social Justice Fellowship.