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Osunfunmilola, affectionately known as Juju Bae, is a practitioner of West African and diasporic spiritual traditions, including Hoodoo and Ifa, and an Ọṣun priestess in the Yoruba Orisha tradition. She is the author of The Book of Juju: Africana Spirituality for Healing, Liberation, and Self-Discovery, which combines memoir, history, and spiritual guidance. She founded Juju Bae, a multimedia platform dedicated to making traditional Africana spirituality accessible through storytelling and conversation. She also hosts the award-winning A Little Juju Podcast and appeared in Hulu’s 2023 docuseries Living for the Dead. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Spelman College.

Ashton Pemapanik Dunkley (Jamaican and Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape) is an assistant professor of Black and Indigenous studies in the Department of Black Studies and American Studies Program at Georgetown University. An Afro-Indigenous feminist historian, her research draws on Black and Indigenous feminisms to challenge narratives of Indigenous extinction in the Mid-Atlantic. She examines how settler colonialism, racialization, and anti-Blackness have shaped public memory and recognition of Nanticoke and Lenape tribal nations since the nineteenth century. Raised in Lenapehoking, now Delaware and southern New Jersey, her work centers Indigenous knowledge, oral histories, ecologies, and kinship practices to address silences in colonial archives and historical narratives.

Lisa Fager is the executive director of the Black Georgetown Foundation, where she leads efforts to preserve and commemorate the historic Mount Zion and Female Union Band Society Cemeteries, Washington, DC’s oldest remaining intact Black cemeteries. Her work focuses on historic preservation, cemetery stewardship, archival research, descendant engagement, and advocacy for burial protection and government accountability. A longtime social activist, she has over two decades of experience advancing civil rights, education, and public health in Black communities.

Ahmad Greene-Hayes is associate professor of African American religious studies at Harvard Divinity School. His research focuses on African American religious history, race, sexuality, queer theory, and Black religious traditions in the Americas. He is the author of Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans (2025) and Little Richard’s Witness: Liner Notes on Black Religion and Sexuality (2027). He serves as managing editor of the Journal of Africana Religions and co-chair of the Afro-American Religious History Unit of the American Academy of Religion. His scholarship examines the intersections of religion, identity, and historical memory.

Rev. Dr. Ebony Grisom is the director for Protestant life in Georgetown University's Campus Ministry. She serves as chaplain to Protestant students across Georgetown University and accompanies students of all religious and non-religious identities; she also co-chairs the MLK Initiative: Let Freedom Ring!. Her academic research lies at the intersection of enslavement, Christian (mal)formation, and ecclesial, institutional, and public memory. She serves on boards that promote and advance racial and social justice, education, Black women historians, children’s spirituality, and Christian formation. Rev. Grisom earned degrees from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Providence College, Duke Divinity School, and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.

Kelsey Alejandra Moore is an assistant professor of African American history and Black studies at Georgetown University and a Mellon Fellow with the Democracy and Landscape Initiative at Dumbarton Oaks. Her research focuses on rural Black southern history, religion, development, cultural memory, and the preservation of Black burial grounds. Her current book project, Black Benthic: Desecrated Black Cemeteries in the Santee-Cooper Basin, examines the flooding and relocation of Black cemeteries during a major hydroelectric project. Combining archival research with digital mapping, Moore explores the relationships between Black communities, land, memory, and historical preservation.

Kwame Edwin Otu is an associate professor in the African Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. A cultural anthropologist, his research examines sexuality, environmental and technological citizenship, public health, and racial formations in Africa and its diaspora. His book, Amphibious Subjects (2022), explores queer identity, self-making, and LGBT politics in neoliberal Ghana. His current project, The Salvage Slot: Technology and the Ecologies of the After-Afterlife, investigates the global politics of electronic waste through an ethnographic study of waste workers in Agbogbloshie, Ghana, examining the environmental and social consequences of global technological consumption.

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.