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John J. DiIulio, Jr. is the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty director of the Fox Leadership Program and the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS). Prior to Penn, he was a Princeton University professor in the Woodrow Wilson School. He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and has directed research centers at several leading think tanks. He has developed mentoring, literacy, and other public-private programs that benefit low-income communities. DiIulio served as assistant to President George W. Bush and first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives; he assisted the Obama administration in reconstituting that office. His numerous publications include a leading textbook, American Government (Cengage, 2016) and Bring Back the Bureaucrats (Templeton, 2014). He is a Catholic in the Jesuit tradition. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and founding director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. A leading conservative Catholic thinker, he teaches classes on constitutional law and jurisprudence, civil liberties, and the philosophy of law.

Timothy Samuel Shah is a distinguished research scholar in the Politics Department at the University of Dallas, as well as as a senior fellow at the Archbridge Institute and the principal investigator for the Freedom of Religious Institutions in Society (FORIS) project at the Religious Freedom Institute. Previously a research professor of government at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion, he also served as associate director of the Berkley Center's Religious Freedom Project, director for international research of the center's Religious Freedom Research Project, and associate professor of the practice of religion and global politics in Georgetown University's Government Department. He is a political scientist specializing in religious freedom as well as in the broad relationship between religious and political dynamics in theory, history, and contemporary practice. He is author of God’s Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (2011, with Monica Duffy Toft and Daniel Philpott) and editor of Under Caesar's Sword: How Christians Respond to Persecution (2018, with Daniel Philpott) and Homo Religiosus? Exploring the Roots of Religion and Religious Freedom in Human Experience (2018, with Jack Friedman). Shah received his A.B., magna cum laude, in 1992 and a Ph.D. in 2002, both from Harvard University.