Sr. Odilia Wonondo is from Malawi. She is one of ten siblings and completed her early education in the districts of Blantyre and Zomba. After training as a primary school teacher at Providence Teachers Training College, she briefly taught at Nguludi Girls Primary School. She later joined the Congregation of The Daughters of Wisdom. She studied in London, obtaining a postgraduate diploma in education and a Bachelor of Arts in theology. Upon returning to Malawi, she made her final vows and taught for 42 years until her retirement in 2001.

Jorge Nieto es un periodista independiente nacido en México y ganador del premio Emmy. Vive entre Australia y México. Le gusta conversar, escuchar historias y datos científicos para tratar de entender la realidad.

Lisa Renze is a freelance journalist based in Indianapolis. She is the immediate past president of the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and she spent the bulk of her career at The Indianapolis Star, covering educational legislative issues. 

Originally from Los Angeles, John Barnes is a doctoral candidate in systematic theology at Fordham University. His primary research interests lie at the intersections of Black religion and culture, pneumatology and Christology. His forthcoming dissertation, “Like the Rushing of a Mighty Wind: Embodiment, Being and the Construction of a Black Diasporic Pneumatology,” engages notions of spirit as the point of departure to investigate how the Black musical tradition blurs the distinction between the sacred and secular. John attends St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Harlem.