The following speakers are currently scheduled to speak at Film, Faith and Justice. More speakers will be announced soon.

Read Dr. Hopkins article on "The Religion of Globalization" at theotherjournal.com.	Dwight N. Hopkins Professor of Theology: Divinity School, University of Chicago M.Div., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Union Theological Seminary, New York) Ph.D. (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Dwight N. Hopkins teaches theology at the University of Chicago, the Divinity School. In addition to publishing numerous books and articles, he is the senior editor of the Henry McNeil Turner/Sojourner Truth Series in Black Religion for Orbis Books.
Read Dr. Cavanaugh's article on "Consumption, the Market, and the Eucharist" at theotherjournal.com	Dr. William T. Cavanaugh Professor of Theology: University of St. Thomas Ph.D. (Duke University) M.A. (Cambridge University,Cambridge England) William T. Cavanaugh is a professor of Theology at University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Among his numerous publications are the books Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ (Challenges in Contemporary Theology) and Theopolitical Imagination: Christian Practices of Space and Time.
authors website: www.thesimpleway.org	Shane Claiborne Christian activist and author Shane Claiborne, author of The Irresistible Revolution (Zondervan), is a prominent activist and sought after speaker. He is one of the founding members of The Simple Way, a community in inner city Philadelphia that has helped birth and connect radical faith communities around the world. Shane serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association, and in his down-time is quite a dynamic circus performer.
www.rochestermosaic.org	Rachel A. McGuire Director, Rochester Mosaic Partnerships Rachel McGuire directs Rochester Mosaic Partnerships, a program which systematically builds trusts between community leaders of differing backgrounds for the purpose of reducing racial polarization and increasing civic awareness and engagement. Her prior experience includes international consulting and grass-roots community organizing. She is an ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches. She frequently teaches, writes and speaks on subjects at the intersection of Biblical Hermeneutics, Empire, and Social Justice.

PANELISTS

Roy Barsness holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology - Los Angeles, a Masters Degree (M.A.) in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, a Postgraduate Certificate in Family Studies from the Los Angeles Family Institute and has completed an intensive training program in Psychoanalytic Theory from the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Studies. Dr. Barsness also holds a Clinical Associate Professor appointment at the University of Washington in the Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences. Prior to coming to MHGS, Dr. Barsness was Director of Clinical Training at Seattle Pacific University. He has also taught at Fuller Theological Seminary and Antioch University. His primary interest is in the intersection of psychoanalytic thought and theology. He is a member of the American Psychological Association; the Christian Association of Psychology, the Center for Object Relations and the NW Center for Psychoanalytic Study. He also enjoys forays into acting and recently played the part of Creon in Oedipus at Colonus.

Will Berkovitz is a recently ordained rabbi from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles. Prior to rabbinical school he worked as a journalist in Seattle where he edited and wrote for regional and national magazines focusing on backcountry camping, climbing and cultural arts. He has also worked as the executive director for both University of Oregon Hillel and St. Louis Hillel at Washington University. Although he was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Will has also lived in Israel, England and around the United States. Will is enjoying his return to Seattle and busy exploring the area with his wife Lelach, their sons Nativ and Edan, and their dog Aya.

Alfredo Feregrino is a consultant on immigration professional matters at the International Services Network where he processes work permits, immigration applications and assists immigrants in obtaining immigrant status and permanent residence through labor certification. In addition, he has worked as a paralegal on immigration matters at local law offices and the Consulate of Mexico in Seattle, where he also coordinated special events, including the Seattle International Film Festival and the Day of the Dead Installation at the Seattle Art Museum in 1995-97.

Dwight Friesen is the community-curate for a metro-Seattle simple church and brings more than a dozen years of pastoral experience to Mars Hill Graduate School. He earned his Doctor of Ministry degree at George Fox University, where his dissertation research focused on the development of a relational hermeneutic toward connective church leadership and structure. He earned his masters degree from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois and his undergraduate degree from Alliance University College in Calgary, Alberta. He is active locally and nationally with missional and emerging church movements and blogs regularly at www.dwightfriesen.com. Dwight, his wife Lynette and their son Pascal live in Bellevue, Washington.

W. Tali Hairston was born and raised in the cultural and economically diverse community of the Rainier Valley in South Seattle. After graduating from the University of Washington with a B.A. in History, he left his corporate insurance career to become the youth outreach director of an urban outreach program called Exodus. With this 
experience, he began training and advising other Seattle and Tacoma leaders in urban youth culture, organizational community development, race and ethnicity, justice and reconciliation, and grass roots leadership development. Hairston contributes to strategic organizational partnerships and community-based programming. Hairston also speaks, 
advises, and trains churches, schools, development organizations, and universities. He has traveled throughout South Africa and Vietnam exploring the implications of reconciliation theology on ethnicity and culture, economics, leadership, and education. Hairston came to SPU in 2001 as assistant director of campus ministries advising urban engagement programs. Now as the Director of the John Perkins Center, he leads Seattle Pacific in a comprehensive initiative born out of a dream and a partnership between SPU President, Phillip Eaton and John Perkins, President of the John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development of Jackson Mississippi.

Andrew Himes is the executive director of the Voices in Wartime Education Project, which uses art and education to support the healing process for soldiers and civilians who have experienced the trauma of war, and to help young people understand the nature of conflict and solutions to conflict. Andrew has been working for social change since the 1960's. During the 1980s, Himes spent several years as a technology journalist and editor, and in 1992 went to work for Microsoft, where he helped pioneer the company's embrace of the Internet by managing the first web team at Microsoft. In 2004, he produced his first film, Voices in Wartime, a documentary that uses poetry to explore the trauma of war. He is the co-editor of the Voices in Wartime Anthology, and director of the short film on PTSD, Beyond Wartime. He comes from a long line of fundamentalist preachers.

Father Patrick Howell, a pastoral theologian, works in the area of psycho-spiritual development and leadership preparation, and has had extensive involvement with pastoral outreach to people with mental illness and their families.  He has taught Pastoral Leadership, Sacramental Theology, Pastoral Leadership Supervision, and several spirituality courses. He is the author of Reducing the Storm to a Whisper: The Story of a Breakdown (1985, 2000 ) and A Spiritguide Through Times of Darkness (1996). Pat has also taught for the Theology and Religious Studies Department, worked in various capacities for the Archdiocese of Seattle and the Jesuit Oregon Province, and was co-founder of the Seattle University Faith and Justice Committee. Fr. Howell served as Dean of STM from 2000 to 2006.

Jeff Keuss brings a wealth of scholarly and ministerial experiences as Associate Professor of Christian Ministry and Theology at Seattle Pacific University. A distinctly interdisciplinary thinker and practitioner, he draws on over 15 years of ministry, research and teaching in the Church, Christian Higher Education, Healthcare and Youth Social Service Agencies in the U.S., U.K., and Europe. Dr. Keuss has been a member of the Faculty of Arts and Divinity at the University of Glasgow, Scotland where he served as a Senior Lecturer of Practical Theology and Director for the Centre for the Study of Literature, Theology and the Arts. During his tenure in Scotland, Dr. Keuss has additionally served as Associate Minister of the Glasgow Cathedral and on the National Mission Board for Youth and Urban Priority Areas for the Church of Scotland. He continues to teach as Visiting Professor of Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, Bakke Graduate University, and Mars Hill Graduate School as well as the University of South Africa (UNISA) through Schloss Mittersill Study Center in Austria. Dr. Keuss’ published works include A Poetics of Jesus (2002); The Sacred and the Profane: Current Demands in Hermeneutics (2003); and the upcoming Radical Mission: The Mission of God and Cultural Theory at the Crossroads.

Robert R. Richards is an economist currently serving on the Investment Committee of Global Partnerships, which oversees the placement of funds from American investors and financial institutions into micro-finance institutions in Latin America. He is a lecturer in Economics at the University of Washington and has served as Assistant Professor of Economics at Whitman College and adjunct faculty at Pacific Lutheran University. In addition, he is the former director of the national board of the YMCA of the USA and former chairman of the board of directors of the YMCA of Greater Seattle, as well as the former chairman of the board of directors of the Pacific Association for Theological Studies. He has served as an elder of Mercer Island Presbyterian Church, and is a director of The Commerce Bank of Washington, Baker Boyer Bancorporation, Eoscene Corporation, Flow Control Incorporated, Pacific Wealth Advisors, Sko-Flow Industries, and the Economic Policy Research Council of the University of Washington. He lives with his wife, Marilyn, in North Bend; they have four adult children.

Eliacín Rosario-Cruz is a husband, father, artist, provocateur and former missionary who recently moved to the Pacific Northwest from Puerto Rico. He is the Adult Faith Formation Associate at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral. In 2005 he joined the staff of Mustard Seed Associates, where he does web project managing and graphic design. He and his family are part of The Mustard Seed House, a neo-monastic/intentional community expression in Seattle. He is an International Associate of the Northumbria Community.

Kimberly Segall is an Assistant Professor at Seattle Pacific University. A PhD graduate of Northwestern University, she specializes in post-colonial and African studies.  She has recently published an article in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, titled: "Stories and Song in Iraq and South Africa: From Individual Trauma to Collective Mourning Performances."  Currently, she is writing a book on poetic laments, called Over My Dead Body: Performing Transitional Identities in South Africa and Iraq. 

Christine Sine lives in Seattle with her husband Tom and her dog Bonnie. She is an avid organic gardener and has traveled the world on a YWAM “mercy ship” serving the poor and oppressed as a physician (in spite of the fact that she suffers acute sea-sickness). She and Tom founded Mustard Seed Associates which works to help churches and organizations look at the challenges facing them in the 21st century. Christine has taught a course on mission to the urban poor for Fuller Theological Seminary and has done work in refugee camps in Thailand. She is the author of three books, Tales of a Seasick Doctor (1996), Survival of the Fittest: Keeping Healthy in Overseas Travel and Service (1995), and Sacred Rhythms: Finding a Peaceful Pace in a Hectic World (2003). She and Tom have co-written Living On Purpose: Finding God’s Best For Your Life (2002) and are reportedly still friends.

Luke Williams is a Program Manager at World Relief Seattle, where he helps coordinate support services to newly-arrived refugees. In this role, he works closely both with refugees fleeing persecution and war, as well as with volunteer interns who come to World Relief to serve and learn about refugees, justice, and Christian hospitality. Luke is a member of Emerald City Bible Fellowship, a multi-cultural congregation in the Rainier Valley. A Seattle native, he is a graduate of Earlham College, a Quaker institution, where he majored in Peace and Global Studies.