Rev. Dr. Marshall Elijah Hatch, Sr. has been the Senior Pastor of the New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church of West Garfield since 1993. Born in Chicago, his spiritual development began in the Shiloh Baptist Church under the pastorate of his father, the late Reverend Elijah J. Hatch. In 1985 he was ordained and appointed as the Pastor of Commonwealth Baptist Church of North Lawndale. In the Summer of 1998, he was awarded the Charles E. Merrill Fellowship of Harvard Divinity School. He is Professor of Ministry at Northern Seminary. 

Rev. Dr. Nicole Massie Martin is the Chief Impact Officer at Christianity Today. She is the Founder of Soulfire International Ministries and author of Made to Lead: Empowering Women for Ministry and Leaning In, Letting Go: A Lenten Devotional. She and her husband reside in Maryland with their two daughters.

Dr. Daniel Lee Hill (PhD, Wheaton College) is an Assistant Professor of Christian Theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University. He is the author of Gathered on the Road to Zion and is currently working on a manuscript, Gospel Freedom, that retrieves the insights of 19th-century abolitionists in order to construct an evangelical account of public life.

Rachel Marie Kang is a New York native, born and raised just outside New York City. A mixed woman of African American, Native American (Ramapough Lenape Nation), Irish, and Dutch descent, she holds a degree in English with Creative Writing. She is Founder of The Fallow House and author of Let There Be Art and The Matter of Little Losses.

Dr. Carmen Joy Imes is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University in Southern California. A graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Wheaton College Graduate School, she is the author of Bearing YHWH's Name at Sinai, Bearing God’s Name: Why Sinai Still Matters, and Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Matters.