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 spent the pandemic working with young people in Silicon Valley and now lives in a cute little town in Washington state.

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/

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 Libraries and Access to Information in Palestine: Impacts of Military Occupation.

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 also a member of FOSNA’s new initiative, the Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism, and is the Communications Manager for Joining Hands for Justice. She is a dog mom of two, a multi-instrumentalist, and a beginning gardener.

Saleem Alhabash is Professor of Advertising and Public Relations at Michigan State University, where he also co-directs the Media and Advertising Psychology (MAP) Lab. His research focuses on the processes and effects of news and social media within the context of persuasion. More specifically, his research investigates the cognitive and emotional responses, and psychological effects, associated with using news and social media.

He also studies how news and social media can facilitate cross-cultural and international communication, with emphasis on changing attitudes and stereotypes of foreign nations. He's an associate editor for the Journal of Interactive Advertising and Frontiers in Psychology (Media Psychology) and Frontiers in Psychology - Media Psychology. Saleem received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Pre-academia, he worked in a youth nonprofit organization focusing on media and well-being.

Saleem serves on the Board of Trustees for Friends of Sabeel North America. You can learn more about Saleem’s work here.

Dr. Jenny Haddad Mosher is the Director of Research & Educational Design at CrossRoad Institute, where she leverages her expertise in religious education curriculum design. With degrees from Yale (BA, MAR), St Vladimir’s Seminary (MTh), and Union Theological Seminary (PhD), Jenny brings rooted focus in religious education curriculum design and production to our team. She has experience working as a teacher, editor, author, and grant writer. She is the author of Find Your Telos: Discover What Orthodox Young Adults & Parishes Can Create Together.

Jenny is an Orthodox Christian with Palestinian roots. She has represented the Orthodox Church in America at ecumenical gatherings and has been active with the World Council of Churches. Jenny offers our team a lens on cultivating mutual love across generations in the Church. Jenny is a member of Muslim Advocacy for Rights, Unity, and Fairness. She lives in the northeastern United States with her husband and three children.

Rev. Marietta Macy (she/they) was first introduced to the subject of Palestine and Israel while serving as a Youth Advisory Delegate for the PC(USA) General Assembly in 2004 and has stayed connected ever since. She graduated from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 2014 with her M.Div. and from 2013-2019 she served in various roles on the Steering Committee of the Palestine Justice Network of the PC(USA). She is currently a Co-Moderator of the Network.

Having grown up on a farm in rural southern Indiana, Marietta recognized a shared language of kinship with the land as expressed by indigenous Palestinian farmers, which has greatly shaped her theology of Creation and our place in it.

Serving as a Christian educator for most of her professional career with children, youth, and young adults, she recently facilitated a months-long educational series across the country in collaboration with PJN. Marietta lives in Charleston, WV.

Safwat Marzouk 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 Associate Professor of Old Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, VA.

Robert O. Smith (he/him/his) is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Texas. With a research focus on the interactions of race, religion, and Indigeneity, Smith is an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).

Smith is a broadly 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, ofComprehending Christian Zionism: Perspectives in Comparison (Fortress, 2014).

Smith currently has three book projects, co-researched and -written with UNT rhetoric and writing professor Aja Y. Martinez—kicking off Cal UP's new series on CRT. Together, these projects will have far-reaching implications for how CRT is understood within legal history, educational policy, and cultural theory.