Rev. Dennis Holstchneider CM is a Vincentian priest and the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Fellow of Church Leadership at Catholic Theological Union. He is chancellor and former president of DePaul University and served as chair of the board and then COO for Ascension, the nation’s largest Catholic health system. Most recently, he was president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, serving the nation’s 200+ Catholic institutions of higher learning.

M. Therese Lysaught, PhD, is Professor at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics at Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine. Her scholarly work integrates the fields of theology, medicine, bioethics, and global health. Her books include: A Prophet to the Peoples: Paul Farmer’s Witness and Theological Ethics (2023), Biopolitics After Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue (2022), Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice: The Praxis of US Healthcare in a Globalized World (2019), On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives on Medical Ethics (2012). She is the Editor of the Journal of Moral Theology and a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

Fr. Michael Trail, is a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago ordained by Cardinal Blase Cupich in May 2016. Currently, he serves as pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Fr. Trail attended Loyola University Chicago for undergrad obtaining a bachelors in Philosophy in 2012. He earned a Masters of Divinity from The University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary in 2016.