Berkley Center

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).

Ijeoma Njaka serves as the senior project associate for equity-centered design at the Red House and the inclusive pedagogy specialist for the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University. She specializes in inclusive pedagogy and anti-bias education for student, faculty, and staff audiences with a particular emphasis in arts-based practices.

Michelle Ohnona is the faculty director and assistant professor of the practice for the B.A. in Liberal Studies at Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies. Before joining the School of Continuing Studies, she worked at Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship as Assistant Director for Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives. A passionate educator, Dr. Ohnona is motivated by the capacity of education to transform lives and foster a more just world. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on gender, sexuality, postcolonialism, visual culture, and learning design. She holds a PhD from the University of London, Goldsmiths College, in media, communications, and cultural Studies, and an M.A. in media studies from Concordia University (Canada).