Dr. Matthew Bersagel Braley serves as an associate professor in the Ethics, Culture, and Society Department and Director of the Honors Program at Viterbo University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on racial reconciliation, social justice, peacemaking, ethics, religion, and global health. He is passionate about getting students out of the classroom and into the community to serve and learn– locally and globally through study away courses. Currently, he is working on a project highlighting creative ways persons overcome barriers to participating in the central social institutions of U.S. society - a project informed by his fellowship with the Leading Causes of Life Initiative, an international network of scholars and practitioners committed to organizing our institutions and communities around that which promotes human flourishing.