Berkley Center

A Sugar Land, TX native, Hira Baig graduated from Rice University with a degree in political science and policy studies. In 2012 she was a Millennial Values Fellow in conjunction with the Berkley Center's project on young Americans, faith, and values.

Thomas Banchoff is director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and serves as vice president for global engagement at Georgetown University, where he is a professor in the Department of Government and the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Daniel Cox is the director of research and co-founder of Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization specializing in research at the intersection of religion, values, and public policy. Prior to joining PRRI, Cox served as research associate at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, where he worked on the core research team for dozens of polls, including the groundbreaking Religious Landscape Survey, one of the largest public opinion surveys on religion ever conducted. Cox specializes in youth politics and religion, and his work has appeared in numerous national news and religious publications including the New York Times, ABC News, CNN, Newsweek, World Magazine, and others. He holds an M.A. in American government from Georgetown University and a B.A. in political science from Union College. He is an active member of the American Association of Public Opinion Research.

Laura Sessions Stepp is a freelance writer, former Washington Post reporter, Pulitzer Prize winner, and currently a senior media fellow at the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Sessions Stepp has written about children, adolescents and young adults for more than 25 years. Most of her writing has focused on millennials from the time they started school until the present. She regularly contributes columns to CNN and Huffington Post and has published two books (Riverhead/Penguin): Our Last Best Shot: Guiding Our Children Through Early Adolescence (2000) and Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both (2007). Sessions Stepp has twice been a visiting scholar at the Board on Children, Youth and Families, a program of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine.