Berkley Center

Rev. Charles Chilufya, S.J., is a Jesuit priest in Africa, working for the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar (JCAM) as director of the JCAM Justice and Ecology Office (JEO) since 2018. In this role, he fosters and coordinates the Jesuits’ work in economic, social, migration, juvenile, gender, and climate justice in Africa.

Eric LeCompte is the executive director of Jubilee USA Network, a development coalition of more than 750 religious groups and organizations. For more than 25 years, he has led religious groups to win policies that alleviate poverty, address global conflict, and promote human rights.

Katherine Marshall, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, leads the center’s work on religion and global development. She is also a professor of the practice of development, conflict, and religion in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, teaching diverse courses on the ethics of development work and mentoring students at many levels. She helped to create and now serves as the executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, an NGO that works to enhance bridges between different sectors and institutions. In September 2022, she was appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Marshall has five decades of experience on a variety of development issues in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and the Middle East, particularly those facing the world’s poorest countries. She was a World Bank officer from 1971 to 2006, and she led the World Bank’s faith and ethics initiative between 2000 and 2006. Marshall is a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values and the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, both part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Athena Peralta is the program executive for economic and ecological justice at the World Council of Churches (WCC). Her research and advocacy focus on the intersections between economic, ecological, and gender justice.