Rev. Adam Bunnell, Vice President of Clergy Beyond Borders, is a Conventual Franciscan Friar and Roman Catholic priest. He currently serves as Special Assistant to the President for International and Interfaith Relations at Bellarmine University. Before deciding to sink some roots in Louisville, KY, Father Bunnell traveled the world through his teaching, scholarship and ministry career.

Father Bunnell served for several years as General Delegate for Ecumenism and Inter-Religious Dialogue for the Conventual Franciscans. He has taught the history and spirituality of all three Abrahamic faiths and served as chaplain at universities in the U.S. and around the world. He is the author of Before Infallibility: Liberal Catholicism in Biedermeier Vienna as well as articles on pastoral topics.

Imam Mohamad Bashar Arafat is the founder of the Civilizations Exchange and Cooperation Foundation. He was born and raised in Damascus, Syria. He attended Damascus University and graduated with a degree in Islamic Studies and Arabic Language in 1987 and a degree in Islamic Law in 1988. He served as Imam in Damascus, Syria from 1981 to 1989, and was then invited to the United States to lecture in various Islamic Centers. He served as Imam of the Islamic Society of Baltimore, Maryland from 1989 to 1993, and founded An-Nur Institute for Islamic Studies and Arabic Language in Baltimore in 1993. He co-founded An-Nur Mosque in Carney, Maryland where he was the Imam from 1995 to 1997.

He served before as Campus Imam at Johns Hopkins University, Adjunct Chaplain at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Muslim Chaplain for Baltimore City Police Department. Taught courses on Islamic Studies at the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University, the University of Maryland in Baltimore County (UMBC), Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, the Renaissance Institute, as well as Comparative Religions at Potomac College in Washington, DC. Currently he is teaching at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland.

Rev. Carole A. Crumley is an Episcopal priest who has served as Senior Program Director at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation since 1997. She directs Shalem’s Soul of the Executive, a program for executives seeking to deepen the spiritual grounding of their leadership. Rev. Crumley is an experienced pilgrimage guide to sacred and secular sites throughout Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. and has led numerous pilgrimages for Shalem. She also directs Shalem’s Clergy Spiritual Life and Leadership: Going Deeper Program, an ecumenical program to nurture the spiritual heart and leadership of congregational clergy, and is Senior Guardian for the Shalem Society for Contemplative Leadership.

A native of Tennessee, Carole has a BA from Duke University and a Master of Divinity from INTER/MET Seminary. In 1982, she joined the staff of the Washington National Cathedral and served as the Cathedral’s canon pastor and canon educator until 1997. In her capacity as senior staff, she pioneered programs in spirituality for the Cathedral and managed the Cathedral’s pastoral ministry. She established the Cathedral chaplain program for clergy volunteers and founded the Cathedral’s Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage. She also founded and directed the Cathedral Volunteer Service Community, a ministry for young adults. Besides her work at the Cathedral, she has served in inner city, small town, Capitol Hill and Georgetown parishes in the Washington, DC area. She also has served as leadership dean for Trinity Episcopal Church’s Clergy Leadership Project and as a Wesley Seminary Distinguished Faculty in the Theology and Practice of Ministry.

Imam Talal Eid is from Quincy, Massachusetts. He studied at al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. In 2005, he received his Doctor of Theology degree from Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was the spiritual Director of the Islamic Center of New England from 1982-2005, aslso serving as the Imam of Quincy Mosque. Eid Later became the Imam and Executive Director of the Islamic Institute of Boston. After the September 11th attacks, Eid visited many high schools, churches and community organizations to combat the portrayal of Muslims as terrorists. On May 15, 2007, he became the first Muslim cleric appointed to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer, Ph.D., is the Director, Religious Studies Program and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She received a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University, a master of arts from the Yale Divinity School, rabbinic ordination from RRC and a doctorate in religion from Temple University. She served as director of the Kaplan Institute for Adult Jewish Studies and as rabbinic director of the Jewish Identity Program of Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Philadelphia. She has been a board member of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life and the Maternity Care Coalition of Philadelphia, and currently serves on the boards of the Metanexus Institute for Science and Religion and the Interfaith Center of Philadelphia. She also was a member of the Ethics and Executive Committees of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association and served as its president.

She is the author of Parenting as a Spiritual Journey (Harper Collins, 1996; Jewish Lights, 1998) and of articles in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Religious Education, Cross Currents, Lilith, The Reconstructionist, and Jewish Social Studies, among other journals. She contributed chapters toBroken Tablets: Restoring the Ten Commandments (Jewish Lights Publishing, 1999), Christianity in Jewish Terms (Westview Press, 2000), Union for Reform Judaism Women’s Torah Commentary(contemporary section) and other volumes in the fields of inter-religious dialogue, religion and social science, and Jewish thought.

Rabbi Marc Gopin, Ph.D., is the James H. Laue Professor of Religion, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, and the Director of the Center on Religion, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (CRDC) at George Mason University’s Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR).

Rabbi Gopin has lectured on conflict resolution in Switzerland, Ireland, India, Italy, and Israel, as well as at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and numerous other academic institutions. He has trained thousands of people worldwide in peacemaking strategies for complex conflicts in which religion and culture play a role. He conducts research on values dilemmas as they apply to international problems of globalization, clash of cultures, development, social justice and conflict. Rabbi Gopin has engaged in back channel diplomacy with religious, political and military figures on both sides of conflicts, especially in the Arab/Israeli conflict.

Rabbi Gopin was ordained in 1983 and received a Ph.D. in religious ethics from Brandeis University in 1993. He is now working in partnership with the Fetzer Foundation to create a web-based video series and book on enemies who become friends and close partners. Filming began in the summer of 2008. He is also the author of To Make the Earth Whole: Creating Global Community in an Age of Religious MIlitancy (forthcoming, Rowman Littlefield). Rabbi Gopin is creator and principal author of www.marcgopin.com, a blog dedicated to addressing the transformation of conflicts facing humanity.

Rabbi Amy Eilberg is the first woman ordained as a Conservative rabbi by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. After many years of work in pastoral care, hospice and spiritual direction, Rabbi Eilberg now directs interfaith dialogue programs in the Twin Cities, including at the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning and the St. Paul Interfaith Network. She teaches the art of compassionate listening in venues throughout the country, and is deeply engaged in peace and reconciliation efforts in connection with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as with issues of conflict within the Jewish community. She now works with the Jewish Council on Public Affairs on its Civility Campaign, and is at work on a book on Judaism and peacemaking.

Rev. Dr. Michael Kuchinsky is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina, where he teaches international politics and global studies. His research focuses on international relations and theory, international development, conflict and peace-building, non-governmental organizations, religion and politics, and ethics in international relations.  He has worked for several non-governmental organizations directing and coordinating food security and public policy education programs. He is an ordained Lutheran clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America having served in congregations, college chaplaincies, and agencies active in social justice. Rev. Kuchinsky is married and has two children.

Imam Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim chaplain and adjunct faculty member of Islamic Studies at Duke University. Imam Abdullah completed his basic training and education in his native Turkey. From 1996 to 2003, he worked on a variety of faith-based humanitarian and relief projects in Myanmar (Burma) and Malaysia with the Association of Social and Economic Solidarity with Pacific Countries.

He is the founder and executive board member of the Muslim Chaplains Association and a member of the National Association of College and University Chaplains. From 2003 to 2005 he served as the first Muslim chaplain at Wesleyan University. He then moved to Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, where he was the associate director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program & Interfaith Relations, as well as an adjunct faculty member.

V. Rev. Constantine White, Orthodox Christian Chaplain at Georgetown University, received his Bachelors degree from the American University – School of International Service in Washington, DC. He attended St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, NY, where he graduated with a Masters of Divinity.

Following graduation from St. Vladimir’s, Fr. White served as a lay missionary in the Orthodox Church of Japan for four years. Fr. Constantine has served as the Orthodox Christian Chaplain at Georgetown since 1986. He is the dean of St. Nicholas Cathedral, the national cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). Additionally, he currently serves as the Chancellor of the Diocese of Washington (OCA). Fr. Constantine has worked extensively with Orthodox clergy and faithful from many of the Orthodox jurisdictions found in North America, including the Greek and Antiochian Archdioceses, as well as others. Fr. Constantine is a married priest and his wife and he are blessed with two children.