Mona Siddiqui is Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, Assistant Principal for Religion and Society, and Dean international for the Middle-East at the University of Edinburgh. Her research areas are primarily in the field of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and ethics and Christian-Muslim relations. 

Phoebe Milliken has worked in international education since 1996.  This work has included: developing literacy programming in Zimbabwe, managing a teacher education project spanning 25 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia for the International Literacy Association, teaching courses in African History in the U.S., and directing Augsburg College’s study abroad program in Namibia.

Osman Simsek is a Board-Certified Chaplain, theologian, educator, and spiritual caregiver with over twenty years of professional experience serving diverse communities in university, healthcare, psychiatric, and correctional settings across the United States. He currently serves as the Director of Muslim Life at Trinity College, where he leads religious programming, provides pastoral counseling, and fosters interfaith engagement grounded in Islamic tradition and contemporary chaplaincy practice.

Osman holds a Master of Arts in Islamic Chaplaincy from Hartford International University and has completed six units of Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), including a chaplaincy residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies to develop his original "Virtuous Companion" model of chaplaincy, which integrates Islamic spiritual ethics with professional standards of pastoral care. His pastoral work emphasizes compassionate presence, ethical leadership, crisis response, and culturally sensitive spiritual care within pluralistic institutions.

Professor Levine has been awarded grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. In Spring 2019 she was the first Jew to teach New Testament at Rome’s Pontifical Biblical Institute; in 2021, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Suheil Laher serves as Faculty Associate in Qur’anic Studies. Born and raised in sunny Zimbabwe, he memorized the Qur’an by the age of fourteen. He came to the U.S. as a college student to study engineering, but the horrific events of 9/11 led him to realize the need to better analyze his own religion, and the need for dialogue with others.