Yohana Agra Junker is Assistant Professor of Art, Religion, and Culture and Louisville Institute Postdoctoral Scholar at Claremont School of Theology. In her artistic and educational practices, she explores the human capacity to imagine and retrieve generative ways of being even in the face of impossibility. An ongoing learner of ancient healing modalities, her research probes the intersections of ecology, decolonial and Amerindian ways of knowing, and artmaking. When she is not writing, making art, researching, teaching-learning, or communicating, you can find her conspiring about the poetics of resistance in Salem, Oregon. Dr. Junker has contributed chapters for the forthcoming volumes Georgetown Companion in Interreligious Studies (Georgetown) and Painted Portrayals: The Art of Characterizing Biblical Figures (SBL Press). She is also co-editing, with Dr. Aaron Rosen, Modern and Contemporary Artists on Religion: A Global Sourcebook (Bloomsbury), and is a contributor and board member of the Feminist Studies in Religion Blog.

Eruke Ohwofasa (she/her) is a doctoral student at Claremont School of Theology at Willamette in Salem, OR in the Department of Comparative Theology with a concentration in Interreligious Studies. I am a native of Jackson, Mississippi currently living in the Portland area. I received a Bachelor’s degree in 2006 from the University of Mississippi where I studied Politics and English Literature, a Masters of Divinity with a concentration in Homiletics and African American Religious History in 2011 from Princeton Theological Seminary, and completed Clinical Pastoral Education at the California Pacific Medical Center Interfaith Institute for Health & Healing in San Francisco, CA in 2014. As a second-generation Nigerian-American who grew up in Mississippi, my theological background is pluralistic as a daughter of the Black Church tradition (Baptist), West African Urhobo culture, and the peculiar fusion of those intersecting worlds and spiritualities lived in the context of the American South. As a minister, chaplain, teacher, and doctoral student, I consider myself an Afro-diasporic religious pluralist and comparative theologian who studies and theorizes topics of religious pluralism as a decolonizing practice of joy and liberation.