People

Alexiana Fry (she/her) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen for the project “Divergent Views of Diaspora in Ancient Judaism.” She writes at the intersection of feminism, trauma, and migration studies. She defended her dissertation in 2021 from Stellenbosch University; this dissertation is scheduled to be published with T&T Clark’s LHBOTS series in 2026, entitled Defining the Sin of Gibeah: Trauma, Migration, and an Intertextual Reading of Judges 19 and Hosea. Her first book, Trauma Talks in the Hebrew Bible: Speech Act Theory and Trauma Hermeneutics, released in 2023 with Lexington Books, and her second book, Esther Keeps the Score: Trauma, Body, and Politics, also releases in 2026 with SCM Press. Fry is deeply committed to public scholarship, and has participated in a grant-funded training for scholars of gender, sexuality, and religion through Sacred Writes.

Sung Hyun Lee is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology and Psychology at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, IN. She is the author of The Power of Mature Empathy: In Response to Sexual Violence in Faith Communities (PickWick, 2025), an ordained Methodist pastor, and a Korean immigrant feminist scholar. Her primary research focuses on the moral use of emotions, particularly empathy, in social activism, daily justice-seeking actions, and church life; Motherhood and its psychosocial and moral implications and practices; and decolonial practices for unlearning and undoing racism, linguicism, sexism, xenophobia, and many more. She is also committed to bringing marginalized voices and stories to the social, religious, institutional, and ethical discourses through various channels.

Sung Hyun Lee is a graduate of Drew University, Madison, NJ, for a PhD in Religion and Society with a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. Before her PhD, we attended Emory University, Atlanta, GA, for a Master of Theological Studies, and of Methodist Theological University, Seoul, South Korea, for a B.A. and an M.Th. She is living with her spouse and a four-legged daughter in Mishawaka, IN, spending her extra time for contemplative prayers, attending to nature, and watching K-dramas and thriller movies.

Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt University. An expert on sexual ethics, she uses unconventional readings of classical rabbinic text to study the ethics of sex and sexuality, disability, and neurodiversity. In her copious free time, she enjoys cooking unnecessarily complicated meals and sharpening her overly large collection of kitchen knives.

El/yse Ambrose, PhD (they/them)* is a blackqueer ethicist, artist, and educator whose research, art, and teaching lie at the intersections of blackness, sexuality, gender, and spiritualities/the religious/the sacred. Ambrose is the author of A Blackqueer Sexual Ethics: Embodiment, Possibility, and Living Archive and creator of the Black Trans Ethical World(un)making Lab. Ambrose is most recently the recipient of the Black August Arts Residency (Toronto, 2025 Cohorts). Their ongoing photo-sonic series, “Spirit in the Dark Body: Black Queer Expressions of the Im/material,” premiered during the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion at the L Street Fine Arts Gallery (San Diego, CA) and has shown with the House of Mark West (Bronx, NY)— one of the few black queer-owned galleries in the country. Their work has also shown in New York City and São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. 

Ambrose currently serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Black Study and the Department for the Study of Religion at University of California, Riverside. Their research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation and the Center for Ideas and Society at UC Riverside, the Louisville Institute for the Study of American Religion, the Forum for Theological Exploration, Columbia University’s Center on African American Religion, Sexual Politics, and Social Justice, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Yale University LGBT Studies Fellowship, and the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+). 

Ambrose’s work and commentary have been featured in the Huffington Post, the Christian Century’s podcast Contemplating Now, ForHarriet.com, Vice, and CBC Radio One’s Tapestry, as well as artistic venues as BMoreArt and Religious Studies Review. 

Wing Yin Li, born and raised in Hong Kong, is a Ph.D. student in theology, ethics, and politics and a recipient of both Presidential and Trustees Merit Scholarship at Princeton Theological Seminary. Wing’s research focuses on apocalyptic, the Book of Revelation, and epistemic resistance against empires.

Since mid-2025, Wing has moved to Canada. They now serve as an adjunct faculty at Martin Luther University College of Wilfred Laurier University and a sessional instructor of the Cantonese Continuing Education Program in Christian Theology at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto.

Beyond academia, Wing is a candidate for ordination in the Eastern Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and has years of ministry experience in local churches across the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and the United States.

Xenia L. Chan is Assistant Professor of Religion in the Religion, Philosophy & Classics department at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, SD. Chan holds a Ph.D. in Theological Studies from the University of St. Michael’s College (Toronto School of Theology), University of Toronto. Her interdisciplinary research brings together Asian American, Asian Canadian, and transpacific studies along with the Hebrew Bible, and she is particularly interested in how colonized subjectivities—both ancient and modern—caught in the crosshairs of empire(s) illuminate the underside of modernity.

Damien Pascal Domenack (he/him) is a chaplain, Santero priest, and Ph.D. candidate in Religion & Society at Drew University whose work centers Queer, Transgender, Black, and Brown immigrant communities. His scholarship critically examines how Afro-diasporic spirituality and Christianity shape embodiment, care, and communal life for LGBTQI+ people of color, especially transgender and non-binary communities. He approaches theology and social ethics through Black Atlantic religious studies, feminist and decolonial thought, and lived religious practice as generative sites of ethical formation and collective care.

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Damién Pascal Domenack (él) es capellán, sacerdote santero y candidato a doctorado en Religión y Sociedad en la Universidad Drew, cuyo trabajo se centra en comunidades inmigrantes queer, transgénero, negras y racializadas. Su investigación examina críticamente cómo la espiritualidad afrodiaspórica y el cristianismo configuran la corporalidad, el cuidado y la vida comunitaria de personas LGBTQI+ de color, especialmente en comunidades transgénero y no binarias. Aborda la teología y la ética social desde los estudios religiosos del Atlántico Negro, el pensamiento feminista y decolonial, y las prácticas religiosas vividas como espacios generativos de formación ética y de cuidado colectivo.

Yenny Delgado is an Abya Yala theologian and Peruvian psychologist whose scholarship focuses on decolonial, liberative, and feminist/womanist theological education. With more than fifteen years of experience, she has collaborated with social movements, faith communities, and regional governments, emphasizing gender justice, migration rigths and decolonial education. Yenny is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Psychology of Religion at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

She serves as an ordained ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is a member of the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy. She is also a member of the Steering Committee for the American Academy of Religion’s Status of Women and Gender in the Professions Committee. In addition to her ecclesial leadership, Yenny is the founder and director of PUBLICA Theology, a digital public square where gender, faith, ancestral memory, womanism, and politics converge, offering inspiring reflections and timely articles that spark dialogue and action. She is convener of Women Doing Theology in Abya Yala, an ecumenical and intergenerational womanist community that amplifies women’s theological voices throughout the region.

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Yenny Delgado psicóloga peruana y teóloga. Es candidata a doctoral en Psicología de la Religión en la Universidad de Lausana, Suiza. Con más de quince años de experiencia, Yenny ha colaborado con movimientos sociales, comunidades religiosas y gobiernos regionales, centrándose en la educación descolonial y feminista. Es ordenada presbítera gobernante y forma parte del Comité Asesor sobre Políticas Sociales de la Iglesia Presbiteriana. Además, forma parte del Comité Directivo del Comité sobre la Condición de la Mujer y el Género en la Academia Americana de la Religión. Es fundadora de Publica Theology y es convocante de Mujeres Haciendo Teología en Abya Yala, una comunidad ecuménica e intergeneracional dedicada a amplificar las voces de las mujeres en la educación teológica en Abya Yala.

Heesung Hwang is an Associate Professor of United Methodist Studies, Christian Education, and Leadership at Pacific School of Religion, and an ordained deacon in the United Methodist Church. Her work explores burnout, spiritual formation, and justice-oriented pedagogy, with particular attention to Asian American Christian experiences and communal practices of renewal.

Chance Bonar is an Advising Fellow at UVA, where he advises pre-major undergraduates, teaches first-year courses, and researches the history, culture, and literature of ancient Mediterranean religious communities. He holds a PhD in Religion from Harvard University. Their work currently focuses on slavery in the Roman world, Christian apocryphal literature, the practice and theory of authorship, and ancient Palestine from the Hellenistic to the early Byzantine periods. He has two books with Cambridge University Press: God, Slavery, and Early Christianity (2025), and The Author in Early Christian Literature (2025). They have forthcoming books on religion and slave revolts in the Roman Mediterranean (University of Wisconsin Press), late ancient Gazan literature (Dar al-Kalima University Press), and a reception history of the biblical figure of Onesimus (Fortress Press). They serve on various committees and leadership roles for the Society of Biblical Literature, the Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions, and the Working Group for Religion, Medicine, Disability, Health, and Healing in Late Antiquity.