Sandrine Rastello is a contributor to Global Sisters Report, based in Montreal. An award-winning journalist and conference moderator, she reported from three continents during a two-decade career at Bloomberg News. She has written stories about everything from global macroeconomics to U.S. elections, gone down France’s last coal mine and tracked some of Canada’s biggest companies. She is also an accomplished actress who regularly performs with her troupe.

René Backe is a member of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes from Wisconsin. With an academic background in elementary education and educational administration and supervision, she was an elementary and junior high teacher and principal for 36 years for several schools in the Midwest. After serving as novice directress for her community, she earned a master’s degree in Christian Spirituality and certificates in spiritual and retreat direction.