Susan Abraham is dean of faculty, vice president of academic affairs, and professor of theology and postcolonial cultures at Pacific School of Religion. She is the author of Identity, Ethics, and Nonviolence in Postcolonial Theory: A Rahnerian Theological Assessment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and co-editor of Shoulder to Shoulder: Frontiers in Catholic Feminist Theology (Fortress, 2009). Ongoing research projects include issues in theological education and formation, interfaith and interreligious initiatives for social transformation, theology and political theory, religion and media, global Catholicism, and Christianity between colonialism and postcolonialism. Abraham brings wide experience and knowledge of higher education and institutional practices through her past affiliations with St. Bonaventure University, Harvard Divinity School, and Loyola Marymount University. Her publications, courses, and presentations weave practical theological insights from her experience of working as a youth minister in Mumbai, India, with theoretical perspectives from postcolonial theory, cultural studies, political theory, and feminist theory.

Eric D. Barreto is Weyerhaeuser Associate Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary and an ordained Baptist minister. He is the author of Ethnic Negotiations: The Function of Race and Ethnicity in Acts 16 (Mohr Siebeck, 2010), the coauthor of Exploring the Bible (Fortress Press, 2016), and the editor of Reading Theologically (Fortress Press, 2014). Barreto earned a PhD from Emory University and an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary. For more, go to ericbarreto.com and follow him on Twitter (@ericbarreto).

Mara Brecht is associate professor of theology at Loyola University Chicago. Broadly, her research addresses Christian faith formation in a pluralistic world. She explores classic theological questions with an eye to racial and religious diversity. Brecht writes on pedagogy, teaching and learning, the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, and the philosophy of Catholic education, and especially enjoys opportunities to work with faculty on developing teaching practices that align with theological heritage. She previously served as associate professor of theology and religious studies at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, and as the Barbara and Patrick Keenan Visiting Chair in Religious Education on the Faculty of Theology at the University of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto. Brecht holds a doctorate in systematic theology from Fordham University, and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University Divinity School.

Jessica Young Brown is a licensed clinical psychologist whose work explores the intersections between faith and mental health. Assistant professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, she also provides consultation to organizations and denominations on mental health, creating trauma informed communities, and addressing racism and racialized trauma. She is the author of Making Space at the Well: Mental Health and the Church, published by Judson Press. A former faculty member and current grant administrator at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology of Virginia Union University, Brown’s primary vocational tasks involve equipping clergy to engage in practices that support their health and wholeness, and to lead in ways that help members of their communities to do the same.

Gary Burge is dean of the faculty at Calvin Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has served at four schools over a 40-year career as a New Testament scholar. He is familiar with the variety of contexts represented in ATS and has worked in both denominational and evangelical settings. While he has published extensively in New Testament studies, Burge is also interested in faculty development and formation. He pursued this by working in faculty governance and at the seminary as coordinator of faculty development. His short book, Mapping Your Academic Career: Charting the Course of a Professor’s Life (2015) is used widely in faculty development programs. He says, “When faculty flourish, seminaries flourish. And this is when students are transformed by flourishing, life-giving academic communities.”

Andrea C. White is associate professor of theology and culture at Union Theological Seminary. Her teaching and research fashion a nexus between womanist and constructive Christian theology, black feminist and black critical theory, and phenomenology. She has lectured and preached across the United States. and her international lectureships have taken her to Brazil, Denmark, England, India, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, and Switzerland. She is chair of Columbia University Senate’s Commission on Diversity and she served as executive director of the Society for the Study of Black Religion and chair of the American Academy of Religion’s Black Theology Unit. White is a recipient of the Lilly Theological Research Faculty Fellowship from The Association of Theological Schools and The Louisville Institute Book Grant for Minority Scholars. Prior to Union, she served on the faculty at Emory University Candler School of Theology and in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as well as pastor, hospice chaplain, and chaplain at a residential school for persons with developmental disabilities. An ordained American Baptist minister, White holds a PhD in theology from The University of Chicago, and an MDiv from Yale University Divinity School.