Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and the Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. Educated in his native Croatia, the United States, and Germany, he regularly lectures around the world, and has been a leader in international interfaith dialogues and a participant in the Global Agenda Council on Values of the World Economic Forum. He has written or edited more than two dozen books, and his work has been featured in The Washington Post, Christian Century, Christianity Today, Sojourners, and many other outlets. His book Exclusion and Embrace was awarded the Grawemeyer Award in Religion and named one of Christianity Today’s 100 most important religious books of the 20th Century. Insights from his popular Yale College course, “Life Worth Living” (which has been taught well beyond Yale, including in a federal prison), are now available in his latest book (co-authored with Matthew Croasmun and Ryan McAnnally-Linz), Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most.

Sherman A. Jackson is the King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture, Distinguished Professor of Religion, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Director of the Center for Islamic Thought, Culture and Practice (CITCAP) at the University of Southern California. He is author of Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī (Brill, 1996), On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abū Hāmid al-Ghazālī’s Fayṣal al-Tafriqa (Oxford, 2002), Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Towards the Third Resurrection (Oxford, 2005), Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering (Oxford, 2009), Sufism for Non-Sufis: Ibn ‘Aṭā’ Allāh al-Sakandarī’s Tāj al-‘Arūs (Oxford 2012), and Initiative to Stop the Violence: Sadat’s Assassins and the Renunciation of Political Violence (Yale, 2015). His latest and most accomplished publication is The Islamic Secular (Oxford, 2024).

He has authored numerous articles on various aspects of Islamic law, theology, history and Islam and Muslims in modern America. He is listed by Religion Newswriters Foundation’s ReligionLink as one of the top ten experts on Islam in America. And he has been named several times, including in 2023, among the top 500 most influential Muslims in the world by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in Amman, Jordan and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. And he is among the founding scholars of the American Learning Institute for Muslims. Among his proudest moments, however, was the eulogy he delivered at the funeral of the legendary American Muslim, Muhammad Ali. His work as a scholar and intellectual is uniquely devoted to placing the classical Islamic intellectual, religious, and spiritual tradition into robust and meaningful conversation with the challenges and opportunities confronting Muslims in the modern world.

Kerry Alys Robinson is President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA. She was the founding executive director of Leadership Roundtable and now serves as a member of its Board of Trustees. Leadership Roundtable is dedicated to promoting excellence and best practices in the management, finances, and human resource development of the Catholic Church by harnessing the managerial expertise and financial acumen of senior level lay executives.

A member of the Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities and FADICA (Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities), Kerry has been an advisor to and trustee of more than 25 grant-making foundations, charitable nonprofits, and family philanthropies. Kerry served as the executive director of the Opus Prize Foundation which is responsible for an annual international million-dollar prize honoring people of faith whose lives are dedicated to the alleviation of human suffering.

Kerry served as the director of development for Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale University and led a successful $75 million dollar fundraising drive to expand and endow the Chapel’s intellectual and spiritual ministry and to construct a Catholic student center, designed by Cesar Pelli, on Yale’s campus.

Kerry is the author of the prize-winning book, Imagining Abundance: Fundraising, Philanthropy, and A Spiritual Call to Service. She and her husband, Dr. Michael Cappello, a professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health and a professor of Pediatrics and Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale Medical School, have two children, Christopher and Sophie.