Luis Martinez Andrade (México) -> Luis Martinez Andrade received his Pd. D. from Ecole des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Collège d’études mondiales/FMSH. His previous books include Religion without Redemption. Social Contradictions and Awakened Dreams in Latin America (Pluto Press, 2015), Feminismos a la Contra (La Vorágine, 2019) and Ecología y Teología de la liberación. Critica de la modernidad/colonialidad (Herder, 2019). 

Hugo Cordova Quero (Argentina) -> Associate Professor of Critical Theories and Queer Theologies and Director of Online Education at Starr King School, Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California. He holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies in Religion, Migration, and Ethnic Studies (2009) and an MA in Systematic Theology and Critical Theories (2003) both from the GTU; and an M.Div. (1998) from ISEDET University, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is member of the research groups Emerging Queer Asian & Pacific Islander Religion Scholars (EQARS), Multidisciplinary Study Group on Religion and Public Incidence (GEMRIP) and the Queer Migrations Research Network. He is also a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Asian Religions (CERAL), Pontifical University of São Paulo (Brasil). He is the author of several books including Transnational Faiths with Rafael Shoji (Ashgare, 2014), Queering MIgrations to, from and Beyond Asia (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014), and his recent book Sin Tabú: Religiones y Diversidad Sexual en América Latina (GEMRIP Ediciones / REDLAD, 2018).  

Carmen Lansdowne (Canada) -> Carmen is the compassionate, thoughtful and creative executive director of First United Church Community Ministry Society in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver (Canada’s poorest urban postal code). She has a tendency to take on large projects and extend self in many directions, largely (although not always) pulling it off while maintaining academic interests, church ministry, Indigenous way of being, parenting and partnering. She in an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada, holds a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA and is a member of the Heiltsuk First Nation (an indigenous tribe from the central coast of British Columbia). She is passionate about creating a life with great stories and amazing adventures with her partner and two kids.