Esther E. Acolatse, Ph. D. (BA (Hons),  University of Ghana, MTS (Harvard Divinity School) Ph. D (Princeton Seminary) is Professor of Pastoral theology and World Christianity at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. She works at the intersection of Psychology and Christian thought in intercultural perspective and implications for the gendered body. She’s the author of For Freedom or Bondage: A Critique of African Pastoral Practice (Eerdmans) Powers, Principalities, and the Spirit: Biblical Realism in Africa and the West (Eerdmans). She previously taught at Loyola University Maryland, Duke University Divinity School and Knox College, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto, Canada.

Dr. Indukuri John Mohan Razu is Professor of Christian Ethics. As an activist he worked among the Dalit landless agricultural laborers in Tamil Nadu for a number of years. He was engaged with the urban poor in Chennai, Bengaluru and Mumbai. He has been a William Paton Fellow and a Visiting scholar to Princeton Theological Seminary. He taught at UTC, Bengaluru, and CTC in Nagaland. Currently serving as Consultant and Research Fellow at ACTS Academy of Higher Education, Bengaluru. Author, journalist and a social critic and is known for his social and political stance.

Rev. Dr. Yara Gonzalez-Justiniano, Assistant Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture with emphasis on Latinx Studies, in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. The overarching themes of her scholarship are grounded in questions that pertain to practices of social justice, liberation, community, macro psychological analysis, hope, and art. In her most recent book, Centering Hope as a Sustainable Decolonial Practice: Esperanza en Práctica (2022), she wrestles with answering the question of what hope looks like amid socioeconomic crisis. Her second book, tentatively titled Exhausting All Possibilities: Healing in Place, will explore issues of place and displacement in colonized contexts.

Rev. Dr. Eliana Ah-Rum Ku serves as an Assistant Professor of Homiletics at the Graduate School of Practical Theology in South Korea. Dr. Ku specializes in homiletics and biblical interpretation, with a scholarly focus on the theology of lament and hospitality. Her scholarship addresses these themes through postcolonial feminist and Asian immigrant perspectives, ethical hospitality and epistemic justice, multicultural settings, ecological justice, mental health and trauma, and intertextual and interdisciplinary approaches, integrating Asian philosophies such as Taoism and Confucianism, diaspora literature like Pachinko and Comfort Woman, and the works of visual artists such as Käthe Kollwitz and fashion designer Alexander McQueen. Her recent publications include Lament-Driven Preaching: Proclaiming Hope amid Suffering (Pickwick, 2024) and the chapter “Towards an Asian Decolonial Christian Hospitality: Shù (恕), Pachinko, and the Migrant Other” in Practical Theology and Majority World Epistemologies (Routledge, 2024). Living between Seoul and Toronto, she brings a multiplaced voice to global conversations on preaching, migration, and intercultural theology.

Robert Mager is a retired professor of practical theology at Université Laval (Quebec City, Canada) where he directed the Doctor of Practical Theology program from 2010 to 2015. He served as secretary (2013-2015) and vice president (2015-2017) of IAPT. He coedited Complex Identities in a Shifting World (LIT, 2015) and Modernité et religion au Québec (PUL, 2010), and edited Religion et conservatisme (Peeters, 2014). He is the current editor of Vivre et célébrer, the French journal in liturgy and sacraments of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops.