Contributions: Lindsay Balfour
Lindsay Anne Balfour, PhD is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University and works within the Postdigital Intimacies research cluster. Her research draws on the philosophical concept of hospitality to consider the relationship between humans and machines (HCI), and employs an intersectional feminist and cultural studies perspective to look at digital intimacies. Currently, she is conducting feminist analyses of surveillance capitalism and embodied computing including how hospitality works through the digital strangeness of tracking technologies such as wearables, implantables, and ingestibles (FemTech). Her recent books include Hospitality in a Time of Terror: Strangers at the Gate, 2017; The Digital Future of Hospitality, 2023; and the forthcoming FemTech: Intersectional Interventions, 2023.
Contributions: Thomas Massaro
Thomas Massaro, S.J., is Professor of Moral Theology at Fordham University. A Jesuit priest of the United States East Province, he has taught as professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at Boston College, and at Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, where he also served as Dean. Father Massaro holds a doctorate in Christian social ethics from Emory University. His nine books and over one hundred published articles treat Catholic social teaching and its recommendations for public policies oriented to social justice, peace, worker rights and poverty alleviation. A former columnist for America magazine, he writes and lectures frequently on such topics as the ethics of globalization, peacemaking, environmental concern, the role of conscience in religious participation in public life, and developing a spirituality of justice. His most recent book is Mercy in Action: The Social Teachings of Pope Francis (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018).
Contributions: Mohsin Mohi-Ud-Din
Mohsin Mohi-Ud-Din is an artist, activist, and founder of the global nonprofit #MeWe International Inc. (#MeWeIntl). #MeWeIntl is a global network of artists, scientists, and community-builders who design methodologies and tools for creative expression and communication skills-building to advance the health, human rights, and representation of everyone. For over 15 years, Mohsin has scaled his methodology across more than 15 countries, from the valley of Kashmir to the Syrian refugee camps in the Middle East, to the mountains of Morocco, Honduras, and Mexico. His movement has supported more than 8,000 vulnerable youth and caregivers and dozens of community building organizations fighting violence, forced displacement, incarceration, and poverty. Mohsin previously worked for human rights organizations such as Human Rights First, and worked in the Strategic Communications Division for the MDGs and SDGs for the United Nations in New York. His work has received honors from SOLVE MIT at the UN, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, Open Ideo and others. In 2009, Mohsin received a Fulbright Scholarship to pilot his methodologies in Morocco. His words and visual pieces have been featured in VICE News, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, and The Nation. Instagram: @meweinternational | Twitter: @Mohsindin and @MeWeIntl
Foreword: Endy Moraes
Endy Moraes, LLM, Director, Institute on Religion, Law, and Lawyer’s Work at Fordham Law School, is a Brazilian lawyer with extensive experience in interreligious and intercultural dialogue. Endy has an LLM, cum laude, from Fordham Law School, and is admitted to practice in New York. She is a member of the Focolare Movement of the Catholic Church, living in community.
Contributions: Craig Mousin
Rev. Craig B. Mousin is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, the University of Illinois College of Law, and the Chicago Theological Seminary. He previously served as University Ombuds at DePaul University and as the Executive Director of DePaul’s Center for Church/State Studies where he has taught Immigration, Asylum, and Refugee Law. He co-founded the Center’s Interfaith Family Mediation Program and co-founded DePaul’s Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic. He is a founding member of the DePaul Migration Collaborative. He also teaches in DePaul’s Grace School for Applied Diplomacy. In 1984, he founded and directed the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center (now the National Immigrant Justice Center), a provider of legal assistance to refugees. Reverend Mousin was ordained at Wellington United Church of Christ where he has served as Associate Pastor for Immigrant Justice. His podcast, Lawful Assembly, is at: https://lawfulassembly.buzzsprout.com/. Some of his publications can be found at: https://works.bepress.com/craigmousin/ or https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cfdev/AbsByAuth.cfm?perid=667812
Contributions: Carol Prendergast
Carol Prendergast has been a Senior Advisor to Alfanar Venture Philanthropy since 2017. Alfanar provides seed funding and technical support for social entrepreneurs in the MENA region, focusing on organizations that economically empower women, youth and refugees. Ms. Prendergast has developed and directed advocacy, policy and direct service programs for NGOs serving refugees and asylum seekers in the U.S. Since her appointment as Visiting Senior Fellow in Human Rights at the London School of Economics, she has served as a consultant to international NGOs and EU agencies addressing the needs of victims of forced migration. Ms. Prendergast is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and has pursued postgraduate study at NYU and the Centre for Refugee Studies at Oxford University.
Contributions: Zeki Saritotprak
Zeki Saritoprak, PhD, is the Bediuzzaman Said Nursi Chair in Islamic Studies and a Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. He holds a PhD in Islamic Theology from the University of Marmara in Turkey. His most recent books are Islam’s Jesus was published by the University Press of Florida in 2014 and Islamic Spirituality: Theology and Practice for the Modern World (Bloomsbury, 2017). He is currently working on a book on Islamic Eschatology.
Contributions: Ori Z Soltes
Ori Z Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines, from art hisÂtory and theology to philosophy and political history. He is the former Director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum.
Contributions: Rachel Stern
Rachel Stern is the founding and executive director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted, Ostracized and Banned Art in New York.
Contributions: Mimi E. Tsankov
Mimi Tsankov is the President of the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ). In the past 15 years presiding at Immigration Courts in New York, Colorado, and California, she has held a variety of national leadership roles including Pro Bono Liaison Judge, contributing editor to the Immigration Judge Benchbook, Chair, Immigration Court -Board of Immigration Appeals Precedent Committee, Mentor Judge, and Juvenile Docket Best Practices Committee Chair. She is currently the elected President of the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) (2021 -2023). Judge Tsankov completed her J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law and was awarded an M.A. in International Relations at the University of Virginia Graduate School of Politics. She completed her undergraduate degree at James Madison University.
