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Jason Berry (C’71) is an investigative journalist whose books include Lead Us Not into Temptation (1992) and Render unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church (2011). Berry is the 2022 recipient of the ChildUSA Sean P. McIlmail Hero Award for his reporting on the clergy abuse crisis.

Jennifer Beste is the Koch Chair for Catholic Thought and Culture at the College of Saint Benedict and St. John’s University. Beste holds a master’s degree in divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School and a Ph.D. in religious ethics from Yale University. 

Rev. Gerard J. McGlone, S.J., Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Previously he was an assistant professor of psychiatry in Georgetown University's School of Medicine. Most recently, he was the associate director for protection of minors for the Conference of Major Superiors of Men. He was also recently the chief psychologist and the director of counseling services, as well as faculty and staff psychologist, at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He has been executive director at several major treatment centers for clergy and religious in the United States-Saint John Vianney Center and Guest House, Inc. McGlone is a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Terence McKiernan is the president of BishopAccountability.org, an archive and research organization devoted to documenting and understanding the Catholic clergy abuse problem. Prior to founding BishopAccountability.org in 2003, McKiernan studied classics and art history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Bristol in England and worked in academic publishing and consulting.

Nicole Winfield is the Vatican correspondent for the Associated Press in Rome. Winfield joined the AP in 1992 and has been covering the Vatican since 2001. During her time in Rome, she has covered three popes: John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. Winfeld is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University.