Dr. Malinda Elizabeth Berry is a Mennonite theologian and a teacher from Northern Indiana (the ancestral homeland of the Miami and Potowatomi peoples). She is Professor of Peace Theology at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary where she graduated with an MA in Peace Studies. She is also the director of the Faith Formation Collaborative, where she works to develop communities of practice that support peacemaking and justice-seeking expressions of Christian faith. Her PhD in constructive theology and social ethics is from Union Theological Seminary, New York.

Dr. Ntandoyenkosi Mlambo is a lecturer at the University of South Africa. She has an interest in disruptive church history narratives and methodologies as well as spatial justice through the land. Her Ph.D. was in Church History, focusing on researching historical land space actions in three congregations. She is the author of several book chapters and journal articles, including “The role of black theology in the post-Apartheid context of landlessness and spatial injustice: a discussion on 1994-2021”, in Liberating Black Theology: Emerging South African Voices. 

Dr. Thandi Gamedze is a South African educator, theologian, cultural worker, and poet based at the University of the Western Cape’s Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice as a Senior Researcher. Her doctoral research was transdisciplinary, bringing together the worlds of education and theology to better understand the churches’ role in upholding and challenging dominant power relations relating to race, gender, and class. Gamedze’s interests include black theology, liberation theology, social justice, education, and the arts, particularly poetry. She has broad experience working across multiple sites, including churches, universities, high schools, and community organizations.

Mimi Kirk is Associate Director and Adjunct Faculty in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. Kirk served as Board President of Americans for Middle East Understanding (AMEU) and as a consultant to al-Shabaka: the Palestine Policy Network. A writer and editor with expertise in Palestine and US foreign policy toward Palestine/Israel, she is co-editor of Palestine and the Palestinians in the 21st Century (Indiana University Press, 2013). Her writing has appeared in Middle East Report, the Atlantic, Jadaliyya, and Al Jazeera, among other publications.

Mimi serves as the current Director of ISCZ as well as being the General Editor of the ISCZ journal. 

Rev. Dr. Wagner received a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry degree from McCormick Theological Seminary. He was Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Chicago’s North Park University until 2009 when it was closed and Don was denied tenure. A retired Presbyterian clergy member, and frequent activist, he is the author of several books, including his latest, Glory to God in the Lowest: Journeys to an Unholy Land. 

Rev. Dr. J. Ross Wagner is Professor of New Testament at Duke Divnity School. Specializing in Paul’s letters and in Septuagint studies, Professor Wagner seeks to contribute to the recovery of theological exegesis through careful investigation of the ways scriptural interpretation shaped early Jewish and Christian communities. An Anglican priest, he serves as volunteer clergy in a local parish and takes an active part in the Anglican-Episcopal House of Studies.

Rev. Dr. Shannon Smythe is Director of Field Education and Vocational Placement at Princeton Seminary and ordained clergy in the Presbyterian Church (USA). She has spent the past decade engaging in Reformed theological scholarship, teaching in both seminary and undergraduate contexts, and pastoring in congregations in NY, DE, and NJ. She is passionate about social justice, activism, and transformational faith formation. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Palestine Justice Network of the PC (USA). She lives in Bucks County, PA with her husband, son, and dog.

Rev. Dr. Stephen Sizer is an Anglican priest who was vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water, in Surrey, England from 1997 to 2017 until he was banned from serving as a priest until 2030 due to his principled objection to Christian Zionism. Today, Stephen is the founder and director of Peacemaker Trust, a registered charity dedicated to peacemaking, especially where minorities are persecuted, where justice is denied, human rights are suppressed or reconciliation is needed. He served as the first Director of ISCZ laying the foundations for our launch and is the author of several publications including, Christian Zionism – Road Map to Armageddon? 

Rev. Emilee Walker-Cornetta is an Episcopal priest and Executive Director at Episcopal Divinity School. Prior to that, she was Coordinator of Spiritual Care at a hospital in New York City and co-authored several articles and chapters about improving healthcare-based spiritual care for marginalized communities. Emilee holds an STM from EDS at Union Theological Seminary and an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary. She is involved in local, multifaith, organizing for Palestine in Atlanta, GA, where she lives with her family.