Huwaida Arraf is a Palestinian-American civil/human rights attorney and social justice activist. She received her Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Michigan, and her Juris Doctor from the American University Washington College of Law, where she focused her studies on international human rights and humanitarian law. Over the past two decades Huwaida has been involved in a number of legal and grassroots initiatives for Palestinian rights, including being a co-founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated International Solidarity Movement (ISM). She was one of the initiators and organizers of the first delegation of lawyers to enter Gaza following Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), and co-authored the report on their findings, "Onslaught: Israel's Attack on Gaza and the Rule of Law." Huwaida is the former Chairperson of the Free Gaza Movement, and from August to December 2008, led five successful sea voyages to the Gaza Strip to confront and challenge Israel's illegal blockade on the 2 million Palestinians living there. She was one of the primary organizers of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and was traveling with it when it was lethally attacked by Israeli forces on 31 May 2010.

Huwaida currently practices civil rights law in Detroit, MI where she resides. She is the co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild Palestine Subcommittee, and sits on a number of organizational boards, including New Generation for Palestine, Eyewitness Palestine and  the Advisory Board of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights.

Rev. Addie Domske (she/her) is a social worker and theologian. Raised and rooted in rural America and trained professionally on the southside of Chicago. She is the National Field Organizer for Friends of Sabeel North America and often organizes with Christians for a Free Palestine.

Addie was originally a Hosanna participant in 2016; she joined the teaching team in 2017. Back in seminary, Addie spent the summer of 2013 in the Holy Land; she went on peacemaking and study scholarships, and without any understanding of Palestinian resistance. Oh, how two months in that land can change you! She returned to the U.S. committed to Palestinian human rights globally and indigenous rights on Turtle Island. She serves on the Steering Committee for the Palestine Justice Network of the PC(USA).

Addie loves the concept of sumud, baking without a recipe, struggling to learn Arabic, and taking care of her reptiles and black cat Bissa (بسة). She lives with her spouse and sweetiepie toddler. She writes often about Palestinian liberation work over at https://addiedomske.substack.com/

Safwat Marzouk (he/him) is an Egyptian Presbyterian whose research interests include thinking theologically about monsters in the Bible, Ancient Near East, and popular culture; Constructing the Other in the Old Testament; Middle Eastern Christian Hermeneutics; and Immigration and the Bible. The author of numerous articles and book chapters, he is the author of three books: Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel; Exodus, Joshua, Ezekiel in the Arabic Contemporary Commentary; and Intercultural Church: A Biblical Vision for an Age of Migration. He is currently working on a commentary for the New Interpretation Series of Westminster John Knox Press: Exodus: A Commentary.

Dr. Marzouk was ordained as a pastor in 2002 by the Delta Presbytery of the Synod of the Nile (the governing body of the Presbyterian Church in Egypt), and in May 2021 he joined the Wabash Valley Presbytery of PC(USA). As a Christian Egyptian and migrant to the U.S., he interprets the Bible in ways that are interreligiously and interculturally sensitive seeking God’s shalom and justice for the vulnerable and the marginalized. He is the Associate Professor of Old Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary in VA.

Dee Roberts (she/her) is a graduate of the Master of Arts, Theology program at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the Master of Divinity, Interreligious Engagement program at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in the City of New York, and the MS in Information and Library Sciences at University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Dee is currently working as the Reference and Outreach Librarian at Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta. Her focus for Palestinian liberation is to introduce more people to the narrative of Palestinians by bringing those voices into the collections within theological libraries in the United States. Dee is committed to combatting disinformation and misinformation as it relates to Palestine. They are the author of “Neutrality and Social Justice: A Theological Librarian’s Perspective on Academic Freedom and Responding to Injustice” in the recent anthology Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries.

She serves on the Steering Committee for the Palestine Justice Network of the PC(USA) and has been actively involved in the organization since 2014. Dee is the co-host of the Bad Theology: Busted podcast and the Communications Manager for Joining Hands for Justice. She is a dog mom of two, a multi-instrumentalist, and a suburban gardener.

Rev. Robert O. Smith, PhD (he/him/his), serves Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago as Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs. Dean Smith is an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and an ordained Minister of Word & Sacrament in the ELCA.

A broadly experienced minister, theologian, and administrator, Smith is an interdisciplinary scholar who deploys the methodological lenses of critical race theory, decolonial theory, and political theology to better understand the historical sources of contemporary political dynamics. His pathbreaking work on the political ideology of Christian Zionism exemplifies this approach: Smith is the author of More Desired than Our Owne Salvation: The Roots of Christian Zionism (Oxford, 2013) and editor, with Göran Gunner, of Comprehending Christian Zionism: Perspectives in Comparison (Fortress, 2014).

More recently, Dean Smith has co-researched and co-written three books on the history of critical race theory (CRT) with Aja Y. Martinez, a professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Drawing on archival, ethnographic, historical, and theological analysis, these books reframe CRT’s origins in legal studies while positioning the movement as a vital tool for analyzing and confronting contemporary theological and social developments.