Berkley Center

Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., is the Pedro Arrupe Distinguished Research Professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service; a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; and an affiliated professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University. His teaching and research deal with human rights, religious and ethical responses to humanitarian crises, and religion in political life from the standpoint of Catholic social thought, theology, and the social sciences. His books include Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition (2024), Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to Refugees (2019), Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants (2010) The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics (2003), and The Common Good and Christian Ethics (2002). He has taught often at Hekima University College in Nairobi, Kenya, and he collaborates with Jesuit Refugee Service. From 2020 to 2022 he is a distinguished research associate with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Hollenbach is also a research associate with the Jesuit Center for Theological Reflection in Zambia. Hollenbach is a member of the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

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; one way she shares her expertise is through her blog Faith in Action. 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.

Sister Hedwig Muse, LSMIG, is a member of the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Gulu in Uganda but currently works in Nairobi, Kenya. She holds an LL.M. in human rights law, a bachelor of law degree, and a bachelor of education degree in English language and literature. She currently works as a legal and program officer for human rights in the Justice and Peace Department of the Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya. In this role, she works on cases related to child abuse, sexual assault, and gender-based violence as well as conducts training on human rights to raise awareness on legal issues. Before this position, she served as a secondary school teacher and continues to partner with schools to conduct student training. Sr. Muse is part of the inaugural cohort of the Women in Faith Leadership Fellowship.

Rev. William O’Neill, S.J. is a member of the Society of Jesus and professor emeritus of social ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. He is currently serving as a member of the Mission and Identity Task Force for the Jesuit Refugee Service, stationed in Nairobi, Kenya.

Geoffrey Mushen Shikuku is an education in emergencies (EiE) specialist currently serving as the country director of Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Kenya. He earned his M.A. in education emergencies from the University of Nairobi.