Graciela de los Ángeles Portillo is a Venezuelan journalist specializing in grassroots communication and human rights. She was part of a binational journalism project dedicated to chronicling Venezuelan migration in Colombia. Her work has appeared in Radio Fe y Alegría Noticias, Cotejo.info, and the Venezuelan narrative journalism outlet La Vida de Nos; there, she published the award-winning report "La religiosa que enfrentó las balas con sabiduría" ("The Nun Who Faced Bullets with Wisdom").

Hoa Nguyen, a professed member of the Sisters of the Lovers of the Holy Cross in Dalat, Vietnam, is a doctoral student with a concentration of biblical interpretation and systematic theology at Villanova University. Her ministerial commitments and academic pursuits have been enriched and nuanced by the continual support of her congregation, of the religious sisters from different communities in the United States, and the guidance of professors, mentors, friends and colleagues during her studies.