Speakers

Loyd Allen is Professor of Church History and Spiritual Formation at the McAfee School of Theology where he holds the Sylvan Hills Chair of Baptist Heritage. He has also served as the Executive Director of the W. H. Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society for over ten years. 

Elizabeth Bounds is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

Lawrence Carter, Sr., is the first Dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel and tenured Professor of Religion, and College Curator at Morehouse College.

Devon Chaffee is Advocacy Counsel for Human Rights Watch.

John Chandler is a partner at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP and is representing five Yemeni men detained at Guantanamo Bay.

Alan Culpepper is Dean of the McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University.

Mark P. Denbeaux is Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School, as well as the Director of the Seton Hall Law School Center for Policy and Research, which is best known for its production of the internationally recognized series of reports on the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp.  Denbeaux’s interest in the conditions of detainment arose from his representation of two detainees there.

Pete Dross is Director of Development and Policy for the Center for Victims of Torture.

Mohamed Elsanousi is Director of Communications and Community Outreach of the Islamic Society of North America.

Charles Feinberg is Associate Rabbi for Adas Israel in Washington, DC. 

Timothy Floyd is Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Public Service Program at Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law.

David Garber, Jr., is the Assistant Proffesor of Old Testament and Hebrew at McAfee School of Theology. 

Karen J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law.

David P. Gushee is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, and he is President of Evangelicals for Human Rights.

Linda Gustitus is President of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

Don Guter is dean of the Duquesne University School of Law and the former Navy judge advocate general.

Gita Gutierrez is a US lawyer working for the Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and represents Saudi Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Al-Qatani. 

Yahya Hendi is Muslim Chaplain of Georgetown University, Secretary General of Clergy Beyond Borders, and President of Imams for Universe, Dignity, Human Rights and Dialogue.  

Jeanne Herrick-Stare is founder and editor of Torture's Not Us .net.

George Hunsinger is founder of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Seminary.  

Cheryl Bridges Johns is Professor of Christian Formation and Discipleship, Church of God Theological Seminary.

Doug Johnson is Executive Director of the Center for Victims of Torture.

Rachel Kahn-Troster is Associate Director of Education and Outreach for Rabbis for Human Rights and a senior rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Fareeha Khan is assistant professor of Islam at Georgia State University and was recently a participant at the Yale Common Word conference. Her research focuses on Islamic legal reform and gender.

Cathleen Kaveny is the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Richard Killmer is Executive Director of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

Rachel Laser is the Culture Program Director of Thirdway in Washington, DC.

Rick Love is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, Yale University Divinity School.

Ron Mahurin is Vice President for Academic Affairs at Houghton College in New York.

Denise Massey is the Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Mercer University.  

Craig McMahan is the University Minister and Dean of the Chapel at Mercer University. He is also an assistant professor in the Columbus Roberts Department of Christianity.

Larry McSwain is Professor of Ethics and Leadership at the McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University, where he holds the Watkins Christian Foundation Endowed Chair in Ministry.

Mahan Mirza is Assistant Professor at California State University, Chico and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Yale University in Religious Studies.

Matt Norman is Missiologist & Personnel Selection Manager at Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Global Missions.   

Sister Dianna Ortiz is a Catholic nun who was tortured while serving as a missionary in Guatemala in 1989 and now tells her story so that the world might know what torture does to human beings. She is the founder of Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International (TASSC), an organization founded by and for torture survivors. 

Katie Paris is the Director of Communications Strategy at Faith in Public Life.

Michael Peppard is a Ph.D candidate in Religious Studies at Yale University. His areas of specialization include the New Testament, Judaism and Christianity in antiquity, Greco-ROman religions, and contemporary Jewish-Christian relations.

Kathryn Reklis is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, concentrating in Christian Theology. She is currently a Project Assistant to the Women, Religion, and Globalization project at Yale University.

Stephen Rickard is a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Society Policy Center. He is also the Deputy Director of the Open Society Policy Center.

Andy Saperstein serves as Associate Director of the Reconciliation Program at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, Yale University Divinity School.

Ronald J. Sider is Professor of Theology, Holistic Ministry & Public Policy and the Director of the Sider Center on Ministry & Public Policy at Eastern Seminary. Dr. Sider is also President and Founder of Evangelicals for Social Action. 

Tom Slater is Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at McAfee School of Theology. 

Glen H. Stassen is Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary.  

Asante Todd is a Ph.D. candidate in the Ethics and Society doctoral program at Vanderbilt University. He also has a fellowship in the Program in Theology and Practice, which is awarded to students displaying strong interest in conversations between the academy, church, and society.

Bill Underwood is President of Mercer University.

Graham Walker is Professor of Theology and the Associate Dean for the Master of Divinity Degree Program at McAfee School of Theology.

Brian Walt is Executive Director for Rabbis for Human Rights - North America.

Natalie Wigg-Stevenson is a Ph.D. candidate in theology at Vanderbilt University. She is also a fellow in the Program in Theology and Practice.

Tyler Wigg Stevenson is Director of Two Futures Project.

Thomas Wilner is the managing partner of the International Trade and Government Relations Practice at Shearman & Sterling LLP.

Steve Xenakis is a retired U.S. Army Brig. General and a psychiatrist who serves as an advisor to Physicians for Human Rights, as well as having a psychiatric practice.