Roger Worthington is the Assistant Deputy Chancellor for Diversity and an associate professor of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology at the University of Missouri. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, the Vice President for Diversity and the Public Interest in the Society of Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Since 2006, Dr. Worthington has been the principal investigator and project director of the MU Difficult Dialogues Program.

Suzanne Burgoyne is professor of Theatre and Catherine Middlebush Chair of Fine & Performing Arts. A 2000/2001 Carnegie Scholar and a recipient of Fulbright and Kellogg National fellowships, she has explored the pedagogical potential of interactive theatre since 1981. She is co-chair of the MU Committee for the Scholarship of Multicultural Teaching and Learning, using interactive theatre for faculty development on multicultural issues.

Noor Azizan-Gardner is the coordinator of the Chancellor's Diversity Initiative. She is responsible for sponsoring and facilitating programs that cultivate equity and inclusiveness at MU and for enhancing the capacities of students, faculty and staff to learn, teach and thrive in a diverse cross-cultural environment. She is a consultant on cross-cultural competency and management at the national and international levels.

Paul Ladehoff is the director of training programs for the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution (CSDR) and director of the MU Campus Mediation Service. He is an honors graduate of the University of Nebraska College of Law and served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. The CSDR is the premier law school dispute resolution center in the nation.

Sandra Hodge is an Extension Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences, where she directs the Community Deliberation Program. She is an expert in providing training on deliberative dialogue and as a moderator of public forums. She is a fellow in CSDR, research associate with the Kettering Foundation, board member for the National Issues Forums Institute and former Fulbright Scholar.

Robert Baum joined the Department of Religious Studies at MU after spending five years as an associate professor of religious studies at Iowa State University. Baum, who received his Ph.D. from Yale University, specializes in the history and religions of African. His teaching interests include African religions, American Indian religions and history, Islam, religion and society, and religion and politics. His book Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia received the American Academy of Religion’s award for Best First Book in the History of Religions. Among his research fellowships and grants are awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Religion, the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard, the Institute for Advanced Study and Research in the African Humanities at Northwestern University, and the American Philosophical Society.

Sharon Welch is a professor and chair of Religious Studies and a senior fellow in the Center for Religion, the Professions, and the Public. She is an expert on the relationship between religion and social change, and the spiritual and ethical challenges of multiculturalism. She is co-chair of the MU Committee for the Scholarship of Multicultural Teaching and Learning.

Taleb Khairallah is a Doctoral student in Counseling Psychology. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has provided services in a variety of settings. He has been involved in community organization, advocacy efforts, and training on multicultural issues.

Greg Alfred is a doctoral student in counseling psychology. He was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army and served in many different leadership positions during his eleven years of service. His interests include student-veterans’ experiences in higher education, men and masculinity, and therapy with African-American men.