ABOUT MEGHAN:
Meghan J. Clark, PhD, is an associate professor of moral theology at St John’s University (NY).  At St. John’s, Dr. Clark engages students inside and outside the classroom on diverse topics in moral theology and Catholic social thought. She is a senior fellow of the Vincentian Center for Church and Society. In 2015, Dr. Clark was a Fulbright Scholar to the Hekima Institute for Peace Studies and International Relations at Hekima University College, Nairobi, Kenya. She has conducted fieldwork on human rights and solidarity in Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania. In May 2018, she was a Visiting Residential Research Fellow at the Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Durham (UK).

She is author of The Vision of Catholic Social Thought: the Virtue of Solidarity and the Praxis of Human Rights (Fortress Press, 2014). Active in public theology, she is a columnist for US Catholic magazine and an occasional contributor to America Magazine and Millennial Journal.

Additionally, she is on the faculty advisory board for Catholic Relief Services “CRS University” Faculty Learning Commons. From 2010-2013, she served as a Consultant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Domestic Justice. From 2012-2018, she was on the Board of Directors of America Media.  She received her Ph.D. in Theological Ethics from Boston College (2009) and her BA summa cum laude in cursu honorum in philosophy and theology from Fordham University (2003).

ABOUT LEO:
Leo Guardado, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Fordham University. Dr. Guardado received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame with a focus on Theology and Peace Studies. At Fordham University he teaches classes on Latinx Theology, Mystical Theology, as well as the introductory theology courses titled, Faith and Critical Reason. His research focuses on the concept and practice of church sanctuary, its ecclesiological implications in a world of mass human displacement, as well as its possibilities for rethinking collective modes of nonviolent resistance. These interests arise not only from his experience as a child in El Salvador where civil war raised profound questions for what it means to be church in the midst of violence, but also by his prior work at the US-Mexico border with parishes and NGO’s that actively respond to the life and death situations of persons crossing the Sonoran desert. Having lived in a Cistercian/Trappist monastery in California, Dr. Guardado’s theological formation and interests also intersect with patristic studies, early church monastic movements, medieval theology, and the ongoing need to do theology in relation to spirituality.