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Recognized as one of the most influential voices in drawing attention to issues surrounding African American Catholics, M. Shawn Copeland is professor emerita of Systematic Theology at Boston College and, for the 2022鈥�23 academic year, is the Vincentian Chair of Social Justice at St. John鈥檚 University (NY).

Professor Copeland, who earned her doctoral degree at Boston College, has taught theology at St. Norbert College, Yale Divinity School, Marquette University and the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana. She also has held visiting positions at Harvard Divinity School and Emory University鈥檚 Candler School of Theology.

Professor Copeland has served as convener of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium and as the first African American president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. Among her roles with the American Academy of Religion has been co-chair of the Program Unit on Women and Religion, and a member of the Steering Committees of the Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group and the Black Theology Group.

Professor Copeland鈥檚 research focuses on three intersecting lines: shifts in theological understanding of the human person, the African American Catholic experience and issues pertinent to political or praxis-based theologies. Traveling internationally, she lectures on the African American historical, religious, cultural and intellectual experience, bringing it into critical dialogue with various aspects of Christianity to inculcate deep regard for and solidarity with the 鈥渘eighbor鈥� and to foster respect and appreciation for human difference.

An award-winning writer, she is the author of听Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African American Religious Experience听(Orbis Books, 2018),听Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being听(Fortress Press, 2010) and听The Subversive Power of Love: The Vision of Henriette Delille听(Paulist Press, 2009). She is the principal editor of听Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience听(Orbis Books 2009), the editor (with Laurie Cassidy) of听Desire, Darkness, and Hope: Theology in a Time of Impasse, Engaging the Thought of Constance FitzGerald, OCD听(Liturgical Press, 2021), and the editor (with Jeremy Wilkins) of听Grace and Friendship: Theological Essays in Honor of Fred Lawrence听(Marquette University Press, 2016). With Elisabeth Sch眉ssler Fiorenza, Copeland co-edited two volumes of the international theological journal听Concilium. She has authored 135 articles, reviews and book chapters, and has served on several editorial boards.

Copeland is an elected member of the Society for the Study of Black Religion, the Society for Values in Higher Education and the American Theological Society. For her outstanding contributions to theology and to Catholic intellectual life, she has received many accolades, including the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities鈥� Monika Hellwig Award and the Catholic Theological Society of America鈥檚 John Courtney Murray Award.

Lisa Sowle Cahill, PhD, is the J. Donald Monan, SJ, Professor at Boston College.

Dr. Cahill is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of American (1992-93) and the Society of Christian Ethics (1997-98), and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.听 Her works include听Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics听(Cambridge University Press, 2013);听Theological Bioethics: Justice, Participation, and Change听(Georgetown University Press, 2005);听Bioethics and the Common Good听(Marquette University Press, 2004);听Family: A Christian Social Perspective听(Fortress, 2000);听Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics听(Cambridge University Press, 1996);听A Theology and Praxis of Gender Equality听(Bangalore: Dharmaram Publications, in press); and听Love Your Enemies: Discipleship, Pacifism, and Just War Theory听(1994; revised edition to appear in 2018).听 She is the editor of听Genetics, Theology, Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Conversation听(Crossroad, 2005);听Sexuality and the US Catholic Church: Crisis and Renewal听(Herder and Herder, 2006), and other works.听 Dr. Cahill received her MA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Professor Cahill has written over two hundred articles and book chapters on theological ethics, Christology and ethics, the ethics of sex and gender, bioethics, the ethics of war and peacemaking, the common good and globalization, and Catholic social teaching.听 She has served on many editorial boards including the听Journal of Catholic Social Thought.

She is the recipient of eleven Honorary Degrees.听 The University of Santa Clara, the Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, and LaSalle University are some of the institutions honoring Professor Cahill.听 She is the recipient of many awards including: Alumna of the Year 1999, University of Chicago Divinity School, Ignatian Award, 2001 and the John Courtney Murray Award of the Catholic Theological Society of American, 2008.

She is a significant and profound contributor to the Catholic intellectual tradition, for which we owe a debt of gratitude.

David Hollenbach, SJ, holds the University Chair in Human Rights and International Justice and is Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College, where he teaches Christian social ethics in the Theology Department. 听He also teaches often at Hekima College of The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, and has been visiting professor at the Jesuit Philosophy Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and the East Asian Pastoral Institute in Manila, Philippines. He serves as a consultant to the Jesuit Refugee Service concerning advocacy on behalf of the human rights of displaced persons. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Catholic Social Thought and the Journal of Religious Ethics, Political Theology.

His scholarly career spans more than 50 years of teaching that includes ten books, more than a hundred and thirty articles and chapters in books. His research interests are in the foundations of Christian social ethics, especially human rights in the context of humanitarian crises and the displacement of refugees, theories of justice and the common good, and religion in political life. He is an untiring scholar and advocate for the common good.

Fr. Hollenbach is President-elect of the Catholic Theological Society (CTSA) and will serve as President of CTSA in 2016. Hollenbach served as President of the Society of Christian Ethics (1995-1996) and on the Board of Directors of the Catholic Theological Society (1982-1984). He assisted the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in drafting their 1986 pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy. In 1979 he received a Walsh-Price Fellowship for travel in Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt to do research on religion and human rights in the Middle East. In 1996, he received a Fulbright Fellowship for research and teaching in Kenya. In June 1998, Hollenbach received the John Courtney Murray Award for outstanding contributions to theology from the Catholic Theological Society of America. In January 2009 he received the Marianist Award, given by the University of Dayton, as well as four honorary Doctorates for his contributions to the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is a scholar and activist for the cause of human rights throughout the world.

John T. Noonan is a husband and father, scholar, author, teacher, distinguished jurist and faithful son of the Church. Currently, he is Robbins Professor of Law, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

In a scholarly and professional career that now spans 65 years, he has written a number of important studies about the interaction of Catholic moral doctrine and the law. He has authored a series of biographical essays on leading canon lawyers of the twelfth century as well as articles on scholastic philosophy. Many focus on morality and ethics, American and world Catholicism, and the development of moral doctrine. These writings have shaped Catholic debate in the United States for over four decades. Among his most influential works are Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists (1968) and A Church That Can And Cannot Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching (2005).

As a Harvard-trained lawyer and a federal judge, Noonan has helped decide a number of important cases, most notably ones addressing the death penalty and assisted suicide. He has also authored a number of books, papers, essays and articles of general interest to the American legal profession. Among the most notable of these works are The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom (1998) and Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States (2002).

In addition, he has served the country as a member of the Presidential Commission on Population, National Institutes of Health, National Endowment for the Humanities, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, as well as the American Law Institute.  Likewise, he has served the Church as a consultant to the USCCB committees on moral values, law and public policy, law and life issues, as well as the committee on social development and world peace. He has been awarded eight honorary degrees, University of Notre Dame's Laetare medal in 1984, and the Aquinas medal from the American Catholic Philosophical Association in 1995.