Melissa Borja is Assistant Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan, where she is core faculty in Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies. Trained at Harvard, the University of Chicago, and Columbia, she is a historian of migration, religion, race, and politics and is the author of Follow the New Way: American Refugee Resettlement Policy and Hmong Religious Change (published in February 2023 by Harvard University Press). An active public scholar, Dr. Borja advises Princeton’s Religion and Forced Migration Initiative, serves as the lead investigator of the Virulent Hate Project, and has contributed research to Stop AAPI Hate. For her research and advocacy on anti-Asian racism during the Covid-19 pandemic, USA Today honored her as one of its 2022 Women of the Year.

Dr. David C. Chao is director of the Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary. He teaches courses on Asian American theology, organizes academic programming in Asian American theology and ministry, and mentors Asian and Asian American students. His research and writing focus on Asian American theology, the uses of Christian doctrine for liberation, the convergence and divergence of Protestant and Catholic dogmatics, and the theology of Karl Barth. His first book, titled Concursus and Concept Use in Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Providence, is under contract with Routledge. He is grant co-author and project editor for the $300,000 translation grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Karl Barth Translator’s Seminar. He is also developing a multi-volume project on Asian American theology. Chao is a graduate of Yale University (BA), Regent College (MDiv), and Princeton Theological Seminary (ThM, PhD). He is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the Association for Asian American Studies. Chao has a wide range of pastoral experience with Chinese American, Korean American, and Pan-Asian churches and ministries and is an active member of the Presbyterian Church (USA).