Marian Aláez is a lecturer at the University of Deusto. She holds a PhD in Economics and Business Studies, and her teaching activity is carried out in the Faculty of Law, where she teaches Introduction to Economics in the Degree in Law and Strategic Management in the Economics Speciality. She has been a member of the Identity and Mission Committee and of the University’s Teaching Innovation Team. In the Faculty of Law, she has been Vice-Dean of Students and Identity and Mission and Quality Manager. Her research focuses on business and innovation in education.

Montserrat Alom Bartrolí runs the CIRAD-International Center for Research and Decision Support of the International Federation of Catholic Universities (FIUC), Paris, where she is leader on the topic of social responsibility field since 2017, together with numerous international projects and research groups. She is also an associate researcher at CEPED-IRD, Université Paris Cité, Paris, and at the Institute of European Studies and Human Rights of the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Spain. She also teaches at the doctoral school of Paris-Est Sup, Paris.

A sociologist of science specialized in the study of international scientific collaborations with Southern stakeholders, Montserrat has a PhD in sociology from the Université Paris Descartes, Paris, as well as a Master in sociology from the EHESS and a Master in International Relations from the Université Jean Moulin. Her research topics include North-South scientific networks, research funding, knowledge transfer and responsible research practices.

He was born in Zamboanga City, and was exposed to simple societal issues since his youth. Having an interest in law, he took up the Humanities and Social Sciences track during his senior high school education in the Ateneo de Zamboanga University, further exposing and radicalizing him to much of the contemporary socio-politico-economical issues within the Philippines. He is currently taking up an undergraduate bachelor’s degree in Political Science, majoring in Law and Policy studies in the University of San Carlos, Cebu City in the same country. Since 2021 He is a member of two collegiate level publications in the same University, namely Today’s Carolinian where he is serving as a Deputy-Features Editor since December of 2024; and SCIRE Publication, where he served as Managing Editor (2024-2025) and since July of 2025 he has been serving as its Editor-in-Chief. Finally, since August of 2025, due to his participation in the 2025 Service-Learning Student Fellowship, he has become a Service-Learning Student Ambassador in the University of San Carlos.

Manager of University Extension and Service Learning at PUCPR, deputy coordinator of the Southern Chamber of FOREXT, and member of the International Observatory of the Global Compact on Education at the Vatican. I also serve as a theological advisor, having collaborated with various religious schools, parishes, dioceses, and ecclesiastical organizations.

I hold a doctorate and bachelor’s degree in Theology (PUCPR), a master’s degree in Public Policy (UFPR), a specialization in Pastoral Management (PUCPR), and a degree in History (Positivo University).

I research the practice of service-learning, understood theologically as diakonia, a topic that leads me to reflect on democracy, youth, university education, and pastoral theology.

He is Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues. James is also Chair of the Society for Educational Studies, and was Head of the School of Education 2010-2015 and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor 2015-2019. He was previously Editor of the British Journal of Educational Studies for ten years and holds numerous honorary titles in the academe, including Honorary Professor of the University of Glasgow and Honorary Research Fellow in the University of Oxford. James was made an Officer of the British Empire by the Queen in 2018. He has written widely on the relationship between theory and practice in education, particularly the links between character, virtues, citizenship, religion and education. His recent book is The Formation of Character in Education: From Aristotle to the 21st century. James established the Jubilee Centre in 2012, and the Centre has grown in size, scope, and impact since its launch at the House of Lords in May 2012. Recently James was a visiting fellow at the Angelicum University in Rome and has written his seventh book on the Christian Formation of Character 

She had her degree in Psychology in 1987 and her PhD in Psychology in 1991, both from the University of Deusto.
She is a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences in the department of Statistics and Educational Research and the current Faculty of Education and Sports.
She was Head of the Department of Pedagogy and Assistant to the Head of the Strategic Plan of the University of Deusto until 2009 when she assumed a new role as a Director of Innovation.
She has collaborated on various research projects in areas such as evaluation, special education needs, leadership and school management, prevention of drug addiction and the development of personality variables like self-esteem and creativity.
In addition, she has contributed to publications concerning the development of attitudes, self-concept, leadership, and evaluation, as well as in the coordination of several works of translation, adaptation and validation of our socio-cultural reality for programmes developed abroad.

PhD in sociology, independent researcher, professor at Loyola University of Congo, in Kinshasa and parish priest in Lubumbashi/DR Congo. Former regional director of the Jesuit Refugee Service for the Great Lakes region of Africa (Burundi, Congo DRC, Rwanda and Tanzania), he currently conducts much of his research in conflict resolution in Africa and more specifically in the Great Lakes region. With his experience, since 2025 he has been in charge of the training sector of the Arrupe social center for research and training in Lubumbashi.

Father Peter Balleis SJ joined the Jesuit Order in 1981. He worked for many years in refugee service in Africa and was ordained a priest in Zimbabwe in 1988. Starting in 2000, he headed the German Jesuit Mission, responsible for development projects and missionary work worldwide. From 2007 to 2015, he served as the International Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service, based in Rome, with global responsibilities.

Since 2016, he has been the Executive President of Jesuit Worldwide Learning (JWL), headquartered in Geneva – an initiative of Jesuit universities that provides access to higher education and academic degrees via the Internet for refugees, the poor, and other marginalized people around the world.

Dr. Michelle Sterk Barrett is the Director of the J.D. Power Center for Liberal Arts in the World at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She has been engaged with Catholic higher education for nearly 30 years—primarily with the Donelan Office of Community-Based Learning at Holy Cross and the PULSE Program for Service-Learning at Boston College. Michelle earned her B.A. in psychology at Villanova University and her M.A. in higher education administration at Boston College. She completed her Ph.D. in higher education at the University of Massachusetts-Boston where her award-winning dissertation focused on the spiritual growth of undergraduates through service-learning. She has been highly involved in the in the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) network by participating in the Ignatian Colleagues Program, serving on visiting teams in the mission priority examen process, and serving as the Chair of the AJCU service-learning professionals network. 

Allan A. Basas is a Filipino theologian and faculty member of the University of Santo Tomas (UST), serving in the Institute of Religion and the Centre for Religious Studies and Ethics (CRSE). He holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from UST. Dr. Basas is a member of the UST Committee for the Promotion of the Global Compact on Education (GCE). The University of Santo Tomas has been designated as a University of Reference for the thematic area of research: Culture and Religion. In this role, he helps advance Pope Francis’ call for an education that promotes human dignity, intercultural dialogue, and integral human development. Through his teaching, scholarship, and involvement in the GCE initiative, Basas contributes to fostering inclusive and person-centered education that bridges faith, culture, and social responsibility within the Philippine context.

Professor and Head of Research and Development at the Centre for Child Protection (CCP) since 2020, now at the new Institute of Anthropology. Interdisciplinary Studies on Human Dignity and Care (IADC) at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and, since 2019, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Foundation. From 2010-2019 he was Vicar General to the Archbishop of Munich and Freising. During this time, he also chaired the VDD’s Human Resources Commission and was a member of the bishop’s working group on church labour law. Before his time as Vicar General, he headed the Catholic Office Bavaria after working in the field of youth pastoral care and elementary education of Catholic day-care centres. As an honorary professor for religious education, he was involved in the Philosophical-Theological College of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Benediktbeuern.

Leire Bereziartua Gonzalez holds a degree in Industrial Design Engineering from Polytechnic School of Mondragon (Mondragon Unibertsitatea) and specialises in Product Design at Politecnico di Milano. She is currently part of the Deusto Design Research Group team and teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Bilbao campus. She is the coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design Engineering and the Double Degree in Industrial Design Engineering + Mechanical Engineering, and she teaches several subjects related to Graphic Expression in different branches of engineering, both at undergraduate and master’s level, and Sustainable Design and Laboratory II: People-Centred Design in the Degree in Industrial Design Engineering. He is also part of the Deusto fablab team (creativity, innovation and development laboratory for the design of new products, services and experiences) as FabExpert, having completed the FabAcademy in 2018. In 2014 she obtained the University Master’s Degree in Teacher Training, which provides her with a complete training in relation to teaching skills, and and has recently submitted his doctoral thesis on presenting a new way of designing products for the urban ecosystem from a systemic perspective, related to new Technologies and especially Urban Renewable Energies.

Philippine National School for the Blind. Special School Principal I

Ms. Corazón B. Salvador has a Master of Arts in Special Education -Teaching Children with Visual  Impairment, Philippine Normal University Taft Ave., Metro Manila and a Master of Arts in Child Study- Academic Requirements, Philippine Normal University Taft Ave., Metro Manila. She is also Bachelor of Secondary Education -Major in Mathematics, Philippine Normal College Taft Ave., Metro Manila.

Her professional experience includes:

• Trainer of Teachers Program in Teaching Learners of Visual Impairment
• Trainer in Braille Reading and Writing
• Trainer in Orientation and Mobility
• Validator/Evaluator of Learning Materials for Learners with visual    impairment produced by the Department of Education and SDO Pasay
• Speaker/Resource Person in Teacher’s Training both in Division and    National Levels
• Speaker/Resource Person in Disability-Inclusive Education in Mathematics and Science, DOST-SEI   

Simone Birkel is a theologian and professor of religion education. She works at the School of Transformation and Sustainability at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her research focuses religious and ecological education in the context of sustainable development. Furthermore, she has developed innovative pastoral Service-Learning-Formats, including Spirit Poetry Slams and Pastoral Care in the Context of Festival and Events. Methodologically, she likes to work with media education and experiential education. She has developed various study programmes in the context of socio-ecological transformation and sustainability and is currently responsible for practical support in the BA programme Transformation – Sustainability – Ethics.

Francesco Bonini is the current Rector of LUMSA.
He graduated from the University and Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.
He specialised in history at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and obtained his Master’s degree and PhD in Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. Following this, he was engaged in research at ISAP (Institute for Science and Public Administration) in Milan and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, with a NATO-CNR Fellowship.
He is a member of the International Commission for the History of Representative & Parliamentary Institutions, the executive board of the Italian Association for historical archives of political institutions and the scientific committees of various journals, publications and research centres.
He was an adviser to Leopoldo Elia, Minister for Institutional Reforms under the Ciampi Government in 1993-94, and has been adviser to the National Office for Social Communications of the CEI and scientific coordinator of the National Service for the Catholic Church’s Cultural Project.

Dr. Ma. Paquita D. Bonnet is an Associate Professor and the Chairperson of the Department of Management and Organization at the Ramon V. Del Rosario, Sr. College of Business of De La Salle University, Philippines. She teaches in the Master of Business Administration program on Lasallian Leadership, Corporate Social Responsibility, Strategic Human Resource Management, Business Ethics, and a mentor of Insider Action Research to graduate students and accompanies doctoral students in their dissertation writing.

She earned her PHD from the same university with high distinction and has a master degree in values education from the Philippine Normal University. She earned her baccalaureate degree from University of St. La Salle, Bachelor of Science in Commerce- Accountancy. She served as a national and regional Trainer of faculty from various schools, colleges and universities on business ethics, values education, corporate social responsibility, leadership development and humanistic management and service learning. She also has extensive experience in partnering with the industry as the Coordinator for Job Placement Services of DLSU Career and Counseling services for almost 10 years. 

Dr. Bonnet is also a Regional Trainer for Uniservitate Service-Learning Hub for Asia and Oceania housed at De La Salle University, one among the 7 hubs all over the world. This service-learning hub trains administrators, faculty and students on the institutionalization and development of service learning in universities and colleges across Asia and Oceania. Recently she received the distinguished Service Award from the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines Episcopal Commission on the Prison Ministry for her unqualified advocacy, service and dedication to the Persons Deprived of Liberty. 

She has also the passion for student leaders’ formation with a personal commitment that made her more engaged in research and the development of student leaders and faculty in the country and in the Asia Pacific Region. She was director of Student Activities in DLSU for nine years and became the President of the national student affairs association for five years. She served as President and Vice-President of the Asia – Pacific Student Services Association (APSSA) for four years and had served as Director of the APSSA Institute of Student Affairs for 6 years.

Dr. Bonnet’s research interest includes the different areas of leadership and management, cultural education, culture and creative industries, student affairs and services, values education and human development, career development, service learning among others. Her dissertation was funded by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the basis for the CHED Memo Order on Principles, Policies, and Guidelines governing the practice of student affairs and services in the Philippines.

EZIO LORENZO BONO is a religious priest of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Bergamo (Italy). He has carried out his pastoral and educational ministry in various international contexts, including Italy, Switzerland, Brazil, and Mozambique. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor at Save University (Mozambique); he is a contract professor and researcher at LUMSA University in Rome; and he is a Visiting Professor in the Master’s and Doctorate programmes at the Pedagogical University of Maputo.
Since 2020, he has been coordinator of the ‘Global Compact on Education’ project at the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See.
He is the author of numerous publications in the field of philosophy of education, African philosophy, pedagogy and, in particular, the Global Compact on Education.

Mrs. Beatrix Bouwman (Bibi), has experience as a development practitioner, academic and researcher in the field of microbiology, agriculture, business, sustainable development, in technology transfer, as well as community engagement management for more than 15 years, at North- West University (NWU) in South Africa (SA).

She has an MSc degree from the University of Johannesburg and an MBA from NWU. She has participated in Participatory Rural Appraisals in Mpumalanga and community needs and asset assessments, doing engaged research. Currently she heads the strategic sustainability reporting team of the NWU, which includes reporting with an emphasis on people, planet and profit. As such, all universities are now members of a Community of Practice in SA, which are coordinating and promoting reports on how Higher Education is contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals. She heads up a subcommittee to advocate for this work. She is also a member of the South Africa Global Reporting Initiative Focal point. At the NWU, she is driving impact measurement in community engagement. As longest serving executive member of the South African Higher Education Community Engagement Forum (SAHECEF), previous Chairperson and representative of the NWU on SAHECEF, she is well informed on the latest developments in community engagement in SA. She also acted as the webmaster for www.sahecef.ac.za and manages the SAHECEF Facebook page. She has access to an extensive network in South Africa and is keen to facilitate the practice of service-learning as a pedagogy in African universities. She is currently also a member of the Universitate academic sounding board.

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Jay Brandenberger is a faculty member at the Institute for Social Concerns and Concurrent Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, Ph.D. in educational and developmental psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. At the Institute, he directs research initiatives examining the developmental outcomes and best practices associated with engaged learning initiatives.
He teaches interdisciplinary courses addressing social issues and justice, and received the Notre Dame Frank O’Malley Undergraduate Teaching Award. He is also a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, and served as the Director of Academic Community Engagement within the Office of the Provost.
Prior to his work at Notre Dame, Brandenberger co-founded Guadalupe Aztlan school in Texas and taught at Waynesburg College (PA).
His research interests include social cognition, moral theory/development, and social change through higher education. He has collaborated on national research initiatives examining means to enhance social responsibility, and co-founded the Catholic Social Teaching Learning and Research Initiative, a collaboration of twelve Catholic colleges.

Dr. Ann-Kathrin Bremer is a lecturer and researcher at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Her academic work bridges Education for Sustainable Development and Democracy Education, with a particular focus on how higher education can empower students to engage responsibly and critically with societal challenges. She integrates Service Learning and sustainability-oriented teaching methods into her courses, fostering reflective and transformative learning experiences. Her research examines the development of competencies for democratic participation and sustainable action, as well as institutional approaches to embedding sustainability across university structures. Dr. Bremer frequently contributes to national and international conferences and academic collaborations, sharing insights on the interplay between civic education and sustainability. She is actively involved in networks advancing Education for Sustainable Development and the implementation of Service Learning in higher education.

Dr Edward Brooks is the Executive Director of the Oxford Character Project and Director of the Programme for Global Leadership at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. His research lies at the intersection of virtue ethics, character and leadership development. His current research interests include hope, resilience, character and leadership development in higher education, and the cultivation of civic virtues. Recent publications include The Arts of Leading: Perspectives from the Humanities and Liberal Arts (2024) and Cultivating Virtue in the University (2022).  

Portfolio Manager of Vital Catholic Thought at Porticus. International Higher Education management and design, strategic planning, research management and HE quality assurance systems with experience of working in a huge range of locations, cultures and contexts. Special attention to an integral approach of global challenges as well as to new models of education towards broader accessibility to quality HE and an increased social responsibility of Catholic universities.

Associate professor at the Faculty of Education, Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. She focuses primarily on volunteering, service-learning, the nonprofit sector in Slovak conditions, and participatory approaches in social work. She authorises several publications, research studies, and articles in these areas. Since 2013, she has coordinated the service-learning strategy at MBU. She is a recognised expert in academia, practice, and the decisive sphere. She has been actively working in advocacy and development of volunteering since 2002. She was involved in preparing several strategic documents in the area of volunteering and youth in Slovakia.  Since 2011, she has been the vice president of the Platform of Volunteer Centers and Organizations and is currently president. She has coordinated several international and national projects. In practice, she also works as a trainer, consultant, and supervisor. She is a graduate of the Fulbright program, a member of the Government Council for Nongovernmental Organizations, a member of the Board of the Directors of the European Association on Service-learning in Higher Education, and a member of the Service-Learning Network for Central and Eastern Europe.  

He is Professor of International Law and International Organisation at the Pontifical Lateran University (Rome), of which he is currently Rector. Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, he is the author of monographs and essays on human rights, religious freedom, cooperation and development, including ‘Human Rights in International Relations: The Law and Practice of the United Nations’, Rome 1997, Cooperation and Development. International Norms, Bologna 2005, “The Law of the International Community. Principles and Rules for Global Governance‘, Rome 2010, ’Code of Internationalist Disciplines‘, Rome 2010, ’Europe and Human Dignity. Human rights and philosophy”, Rome 2014.

Consultant to the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts; Advisor to the Vatican City State. President of the Disciplinary Commission of the Vatican City State. Since 1994 he has represented the Holy See on the European Commission for Democracy through Law (‘Venice Commission’) and on the Consultative Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Born in Gaeta in 1961, he is married and has two children.

Is a Service-Learning Specialist at the Center for Social Concern and Action of the De La Salle University (DLSU) Manila, Philippines. Within this role, he has been responsible for overseeing courses with a Service-Learning Program under the Ramon V. Del Rosario, Sr. – College of Business, School of Economics, and the College of Law, Clinical Legal Education Program. Jimi Caldea currently serves as the team leader of DLSU’s Service-Learning Program and concurrently the coordinator of the Uniservitate Asia and Oceania Regional Hub. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in philosophy and is currently a candidate for a doctorate at the University of Santo Tomas-Manila. He has worked in different Higher Educational Institutions for over 20 years in various capacities: as a Service-Learning Specialist, Social Orientation and Community Involvement Coordinator, Student Affairs Practitioner, National Service and Training Program Director, Campus Minister, and Faculty member. He has written and published several research papers on Service-Learning and philosophy.

Assistant Professor, School of Physiotherapy, Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

With 7 years of experience in community-based rehabilitation and 11 years in university teaching, Fernanda has developed a strong commitment to promoting healthy aging through education and outreach.

She holds a Master’s in Neurorehabilitation (Universidad Andrés Bello), is a certified Adult Bobath Therapist, and has completed diplomas in Research Sciences and Evidence-Based Medicine (Universidad de los Andes), as well as University Teaching for Health Professionals (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

Fernanda coordinates the Camina60+ Physical Exercise Workshops at Kinesiología UC and leads community engagement activities focused on aging, including her role as Service-Learning Coordinator in the Physiotherapy program. She is also a faculty member of the UC Center for the Study of Aging and Older Adults.

Rector of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), where she previously served as Vice Rector for Research and Internationalization (2012-2016) and was Dean of the School of Human Sciences (2005-2012). She received her PhD in Germanic Studies from that university, where she also serves as Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Human Sciences. In addition, she is an honorary fellow of the IGRS, School of Advanced Study (University of London) and serves as a visiting professor at the University of San Jose (Macau).

Rev Anthony Casamento CSMA is Vice President of Australian Catholic University (ACU), a position he has held since August 2017. Fr Anthony is a member of the Congregation of St Michael the Archangel (Michaelite Fathers), which is part of the wider Salesian family.

Fr Anthony also serves as the Regional Superior for the Michaelites in Australia and is a Chaplain to the NSW Police Force as well as a Magistral Chaplain in the Order of Malta. He holds several Advisory Board positions including the Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education (IACHE) at Boston College (USA) and Marist Schools Australia Regional Advisory Board. He is the co-editor of Ex Corde Ecclesiae: Reflections after 30 years published by St Paul’s in 2022.

Miao-Ju Chwo, PhD, RN, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nursing and Director of the Service Learning Center at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan. She earned her PhD in Nursing from Case Western Reserve University, USA, and holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from the National Defense Medical Center.

Dr. Chwo has over 15 years of experience integrating service-learning into professional nursing education and leading international service-learning programs, particularly in India. Her work emphasizes cultivating students’ empathy, social responsibility, and global citizenship through experiential learning.

She is also the pre-Chairman of the Taiwan Service Learning Society, a committee member of the Overseas Peace Corps of the Ministry of Education, and serves on several professional associations in nursing, safety promotion, and child development. Her professional background includes academic appointments at the National Defense Medical Center and clinical practice as a nurse practitioner at Tri-Service General Hospital.

Jairo H. Cifuentes Madrid is a lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with
specializations in Commercial Law and Socioeconomic Sciences from the same University, and an MBA from the University of Miami.
At Pontificia Universidad Javeriana he has worked as Contracts Lawyer in the Legal Department in Bogotá. He was Head of Human Resources, Secretary General in the Cali Branch and, subsequently, its General Academic Director. From 2002 to 2008 he was appointed Academic Vice Rector of Universidad Javeriana Bogotá. In 2008 he assumed the position of Advisor to the Rector of the University and since 2010 he has been the General Secretary of the University.
Between 1997 and 2003, he was a member on two occasions of the Board of Regents of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Jesus in Colombia and of the Board of Directors of the Caja de Compensación Familiar CAFAM. He is President of the Superior University Council of the CAFAM University Foundation and President of the Board of Directors of TELESCOPI: Network of Observatories of Good Practices of Strategic University Management in Ibero-America. He was a member of the Superior University Council of the University of Ibagué.
He has been a consultant to Colombian and foreign universities; peer evaluator and consultant on issues of university governance for the Ministry of National Education. On several occasions, international peer evaluator of the National Accreditation Commission of Chile.
Author of articles and book chapters on higher education issues, and academic editor of the books: Strategic Management of Universities in the Ibero-America Region – A comparative perspective (Springer) and University Governance Issues (Editorial Javeriana).
In 1996 he received the Academic Merit Award from the University of Miami. In 1997 he received membership in Beta Gamma Sigma, The Honor Society for AACSB Acredited Business Programs. In 2001 he was awarded the Order of the Javeriana University.

Maria Cinque is full professor of Teaching Methodologies and Special Pedagogy at LUMSA University in Rome, where she also coordinates the Bachelor Degree of Educational Sciences and the Post-graduate School “EIS” (Educare all’incontro e alla solidarietà).

She has a PhD in Teaching and Communication Technologies, and her main research interests focus on soft skills and digital skills, special educational needs in the classrom (she directs the specialization course for teachers supporting students with disabilities), service-learning and faculty development. She teaches Didactics and Communication at the Campus Bio-Medico University in Rome and holds every year seminars on active learning in different Italian Universities (Palermo, Catania, Pisa, Genoa, Turin, Milan, Pordenone, Udine).

She has directed several European projects (currently 6 running) and is the coordinator of a working group on the Global Compact on Education set up by the Congregation for Catholic Education in 2020.

He was born in Torres Vedras and after finishing secondary school he attended the Faculty of Letters in Lisbon where he graduated in History. After graduating in History he entered the Major Seminary of Olivais in 1973 and, in 1979, he graduated in Theology from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, obtaining a doctorate in Historical Theology in 1992.
He was ordained priest on the 29th June 1979. He was a member of the Formation Team of the Major Seminary of Olivais, where he served as Vice-Rector from 1989 to 1997 and Rector from 1997 to 2005. In 1999 he received the Episcopal nomination for Auxiliary of the Patriarchate of Lisbon, with the title of Pinhel and, in 2000, Episcopal Ordination. He is appointed Bishop of Porto in 2007 and, in 2013, takes office as 17th Patriarch of Lisbon. He is created Cardinal Presbyter of the Holy Roman Church, by Pope Francis, in 2015, with the title of Saint Anthony of the Portuguese in the Field of Mars.
He is the author of books and studies on topics in the areas of History, Theology and Pastoral, published in specialty editions and magazines, and has already been awarded several distinctions and prizes.

Bojana Culum is an Associate Professor at the University of Rijeka (Croatia), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Education, and serves as a member of the National Council for Youth Work, appointed by the Croatian Government. She is a member of the European Association of Service-Learning in Higher Education and has been engaged in several EU funded projects focused on service-learning development in the EU

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Paraná. Brasil  PUCPR. 

University Extension and Service-Learning Management  

Manager of University Extension and Service Learning at PUCPR, deputy coordinator of the Southern Chamber of FOREXT, and member of the International Observatory of the Global Compact on Education at the Vatican. I also serve as a theological advisor, having collaborated with various religious schools, parishes, dioceses, and ecclesiastical organizations.

I hold a doctorate and bachelor’s degree in Theology (PUCPR), a master’s degree in Public Policy (UFPR), a specialization in Pastoral Management (PUCPR), and a degree in History (Positivo University).

I research the practice of service-learning, understood theologically as diakonia, a topic that leads me to reflect on democracy, youth, university education, and pastoral theology.

Br. Edmundo Adolfo De Leon Fernandez FSC, affectionately known as Br. Dodo, is an educator and a practicing artist. Currently serving as the President of La Salle Green Hills, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, and De La Salle Lipa, he also holds the esteemed position of President of the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges, and Universities (PAASCU) and Treasurer of the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP).

With a wealth of experience in the Lasallian community, he has served as the Provincial of the De La Salle Brothers Lasallian East Asia District (LEAD) from 2011 to 2019 and as the Provincial for the District of the Philippines from 2004 to 2011. At present he is the appointed Chair of the Commission on Education of the De La Salle Brothers worldwide.

Br. Dodo’s leadership extends beyond the realm of education, as he has also made a name for himself in the art world. An accomplished artist, he has held two solo art exhibitions and has participated in artist residencies in Vermont, USA, Japan, and France. His creative talents and passion for the arts have further enriched his multifaceted professional profile.

Br. Dodo is a member of the Board of several La Salle schools and La Salle supervised schools in the country.  He is a member of the Board of the Immaculate Conception Academy in Greenhills San Juan and the Board of La Salle College of the Arts in Singapore. His commitment to excellence extends beyond the realm of education and arts, as evidenced by his membership on the Board of the First Metro Asset Management Inc.

With a passion for both education and the arts, Br. Dodo is a multifaceted individual who continues to make a profound impact on the Lasallian community in the Philippines and beyond.

Dr. Marlon de Luna Era, an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology Behavioral Sciences Department, De La Salle University,Manila, Philippines. He has an M.S. in Human Settlements Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Ph.D on Development Studies at De La Salle University. Dr. Era has extensive teaching and professional experiences in disaster resilience, solid waste management, service-learning, gender and local governance. Dr. Era had worked with the Department of Social Welfare and Development as Social Welfare Program Specialist, Program Associate of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), Thailand ;Operations Manager of the Corporate Network for Disaster Response (CNDR). At present, he is Board Member of the Philippine Sociological Society; Executive Vice President of the Solid Waste Management Association of the Philippines (SWAPP), President, Local Governance Training and Research Institution-Philippine Network , Chairperson, VOICE Philippines and Regional Trustee for Southeast Asia, International Association for Community Development (IACD)

Julio del Valle Ballón is the rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and a senior professor in the Department of Humanities. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany) and a master’s degree in Philosophy from PUCP.

At PUCP, Dr. del Valle has served in several leadership roles, including dean of General Studies in the Humanities, representative of the deans on the University Council, and director of the Institute for University Teaching (IDU). Throughout his career, he has received numerous awards for his work as a teacher and researcher.

His areas of study include art and the concept of artistic productivity, aesthetics and poetry, German literature, educational approaches, pedagogical training, and academic research.

Prof. del Valle has authored numerous research articles, primarily on the subjects of aesthetics and poetry. He has published two books of poetry: Callado Cielo (1994) and El instinto de la memoria (2008).

Aurelie De Smet is an architect (Sint-Lucas Hogeschool voor Wetenschap & Kunst, 2005) and spatial planner (Universiteit Gent, 2007). She currently works as Service-learning Facilitator at the Faculty of Architecture of the KU Leuven. Together with her colleagues, she initiates and supports a wide range of community-engaged learning initiatives. She also teaches two service-learning elective courses and a service-learning design studio in the Master of Architecture. Aurelie is fascinated by people’s direct and indirect influence on their environment and vice versa. In her work, the interaction between ‘practice’ and ‘theory’ is a common thread, as she finds it essential to reflect on her actions and relate any research findings to the real, everyday world.

Father (Professor) Jose Palely Devassy serves as the Vice Chancellor of Assam Don Bosco University, which has achieved 12(B) status under the University Grants Commission (UGC) and is the first private university in Assam to receive an “A” grade from NAAC. He is recognized as an experienced institution builder, having founded Don Bosco College in Senapati District, Manipur, which has also been awarded an “A” grade by  National Assessment and Accreditation Council NAAC multiple times and is now an autonomous institution renowned for its contributions to higher education in the region.

Before his current role, he managed the financial administration for the Salesians of Don Bosco in Dimapur Province from 2009 to 2015, overseeing operations across five northeastern states. He later initiated a college in Golaghat, Assam, which now operates as a fully functional educational institution known for its quality programs.

Dr. Palely holds a doctorate in Political Science, focusing on the traditional administrative systems and customary laws of the Maram Tribe. His extensive work with diverse communities in Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, and Assam has made him a strong advocate for indigenous knowledge systems that enhance sustainability. As a senior leader, counselor, and academician, he has implemented transformative initiatives that promote a rich learning environment valuing diversity and equality of opportunity.

Susana Di Trolio, PhD, was born in Venezuela. She is Executive Secretary of the Kircher Network, Jesuit Higher Education Network in Europe and the Middle East; president of the “Committee for Mission Integration” of the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU) and coordinator of the IAJU programme “Best Practices in Jesuit Higher Education”. She is also an associate professor at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.
She holds a BA in Political Science from the Universidad Central de Venezuela and an MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA), Venezuela. She holds a PhD in International Studies from the Universidad de Deusto, Spain, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, in the United States.
She was Executive Secretary of AUSJAL, the network of Jesuit universities in Latin America and the Caribbean, and Director of the AUSJAL South American Region. She was Senior Consultant in educational systems at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC.

Audrey Dornisch is a current senior at Walsh University, majoring in finance with a minor in data analytics, graduating in December 2025. She served as president of the Garage, an entrepreneurship organization on Walsh’s campus for the past two years. Additionally, she is also a Student Ambassador, Blouin Global Scholar, member of the Business Club, and involved with Campus Ministry. Audrey is passionate about pursuing a career in economic development and community engagement after graduation.

Areas of Expertise: Gender, Education, Sustainable Development, Women in Leadership
Dr. Draru Mary Cecilia, LSMIG, Ph.D. is of the congregation Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Gulu (LSMIG) in Northern Uganda and began her role as ASEC Executive Director in November 2017.

Sr. Draru has vast experience on gender, education and sustainable development in Africa. She received her Ph.D. in September, 2017 from Radboud University in Nijmegen, Holland after successfully defending her doctoral thesis, Education Pathways: Narratives of Female Academics and Administrators. Prior to her new role as ASEC Executive Director, Sr. Draru spent 15 years serving at ASEC’s HESA partner institution, Uganda Martyrs University (UMU). Her most recent role at UMU was Dean of Students, where she was responsible for student welfare, student extracurricular activities and managing alumnae relations.

Fr. Franck was born in France in 1976. He studied Political Sciences in Paris before joining the Order of Preachers, Province of France, in 2001. His Doctorate in theology focuses on Gregory of Nyssa’s doctrine of creation. He consequently published a few books amongst them “Why do cows probably go to Heaven?” Which explores the possibility of an eternal life for the whole cosmos. Fr Franck has taught at the faculties of theology of Strasbourg and Lille. He spent 11 years as student then novice master, helping young Dominican vocations integrate the Order. Since September 2025 he is Deputy President Rector of the Catholic University in Lille. His missions include supervising the young “Humanities” team which coordinates the Service-Learning programme.

Juan Jose Etxeberria has a PhD in Canon Law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In 2003, he got a degree in Canon Law from the Institut Catholique de Paris. He was Deputy Head of the Student Affairs and Innovation and Quality Departments of the Faculty of Law from 2003 to 2006.

He is currently a lecturer at the University of Deusto, where he teaches Philosophy of Law at campus Bilbao. He has also taught Natural Law and Canon Law at the University of Deusto and Ecclesiastical Associative Law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

He has publications in Canon Law and Natural Law, mainly on living wills, ecclesial movements, secularism approach and confessionalism in new social contexts.

President of the Master School of LUMSA University, Rome, which mission is to delve into and promote Service-learning in Italian universities and schools. As a consultant of the Congregation for Catholic Education of the Holy See, he directed the Educating Today and Tomorrow Report in preparation for the 2015 world meeting, promoted by the Holy See. He collaborates with the Scholas Occurrentes pontifical foundation and is the president of the International Scientific Committee “Scholas Chairs.” He served in the Italian Ministry of Education taking over important tasks (he was a board member at the European Agency for Development in special Needs, coordinator of the National Observatory on the Condition of Persons with Disabilities; he is a member of the National Observatory on Interculturality). At the Ministry he coordinated the drafting of the national programs (national indications for the 2007-2012 curriculum). He has recently coordinated the national experimentation for the introduction of Service-learning that concluded with the document La Via Italiana al Service-learning. In addition to Service-learning, his research includes topics of general and social pedagogy, didactics and innovation. Among his numerous publications we recall the compilation of the volume: Oltre l’aula: la proposta pedagogica del Service-learning (Milan, 2016); in addition to numerous contributions in various volumes, including: Una via Italiana al Service-learning (Rome, 2020), Il Service-learning come proposta pedagogica di educazione al bene comune (Naples, 2020), New Horizons for Education and Service-learning: from the Paradigm of Usefulness to the Paradigm of Gift (Vatican, 2018); Service-learning: una novità dal cuore antico (Milan, 2017). Regarding the topics on pedagogical and didactic innovation, we recall the monographic volumes: La sfida dell’insegnamento (Milan, 2017); Scuola accogliente, competent scuola (Brescia, 2016); Insegnare ad apprendere (Brescia, 2014).

PhD in Sociology (UCL-Belgium). Master of Social Sciences (PUCSP-Brazil)). Bachelor of Social Sciences (UFRGS-Brazil). Professor of the Post-Graduate Program in Social Sciences, University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS). Jesuit priest. Director of the National Observatory of Socio- environmental Justice Luciano Mendes de Almeida (OLMA). Leader of the Research Group: “Trans-disciplinarity, Integral Ecology and Socio-Environmental Justice”. Other themes:
Sociology of Religions, Identities, Trans-disciplinarity, Ethnic-Racial Relations.

Andrew Furco teaches in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizational Development at the University of Minnesota. He previously served as Associate Vice President for Public Engagement at the University. For more than 30 years, Furco has championed the expansion of the philosophy and practice of service-learning, community engagement, and experiential learning in K-12, K-12, and higher education, both in the United States and abroad. Prior to coming to Minnesota, he was a faculty member and founding director of the Center for Service-Learning Research and Development at the University of California, Berkeley (1990–2007).

Rodolfo Gallo Cornejo is a civil engineer with a Master’s in Business Administration from UCASAL and a Master’s in Project Management from CEU San Pablo in Spain.
He currently chairs ODUCAL, the Organization of Catholic Universities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Since February 2016, he has been the Rector of the Universidad Católica de Salta in Argentina. He previously served as head of the Department of Extension, Graduates and Well-being of the Faculty of Engineering and director of the Specialization in Construction Management.
As a professor, he was in charge of the Integrated Project Management course and the Final Project Workshop, part of the Specialization in Construction Management.

He is a member of the Spirituality and Research Team of Uniservitate, coordinator of the educational ministry of the Santa Rosa de Lima Institute and professor of Religion at the San Luis Institute in Buenos Aires. He was a national coordinator for the Episcopal Conference of Argentina (2015-2018) and was summoned by the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops as a consultant for the International Seminar on the Condition of Youth (Rome 2017) and as an auditor for the Synod of Bishops “Young People, Faith and Vocational Discernment” (Rome 2018).

PhD in Architecture, researcher-teacher at the Catholic University of Cordoba (Argentina) and regional coordinator of the University Social Responsibility Network (RSU) of the Association of Jesuit Universities of Latin America (AUSJAL).
Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina and member of the Experimental Centre for Affordable Housing. She coordinates the Socio-housing Service, where she develops service-learning initiatives for urban-housing improvement in vulnerable settlements.
He has published articles and taught courses on USR in several countries, among which his contributions to the “Policies and System of Self-Assessment of USR”, the “Compendium of Significant Experiences of USR” and the “Diploma of USR” of AUSJAL stand out.

Dr Fiona Gatty is a researcher and strategic partnership professional, with a multi-disciplinary background and experience. She has been working as an external advisor for the Templeton World Charity Foundation Inc (TWCF) for over 10 years as a program officer in many areas of the foundation’s interests, especially character education.

More recently she has taken on the role of Principal Advisor for Strategic Relationships and Partnerships where she is responsible for external engagement and the development of strategic partnership grants.

Prior to working in philanthropy, she had a career in the international finance, entrepreneurial business, and high net worth family business sectors before returning to Oxford where she completed her Masters and Doctorate. As well as her work in philanthropy she has recently completed a research project on Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times, in the Department of Education at Oxford University.

Daniel Giorgetti has a PhD in Social Sciences (University of Buenos Aires), and also holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences (FLACSO) and a Bachelor’s degree in History (UNS). He has been instructor and researcher in the Latin American Center for Solidarity Service-Learning (CLAYSS) since it was founded and participates en the Uniservitate Programme.

He is a researcher and lecturer at the School of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and the National University of Moreno. He teaches graduate courses at the Latin American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO, for its Spanish acronym), the Catholic University of Salta (UCASAL, for its Spanish acronym) and the Schools of Economic Sciences, Social Sciences and Law of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA, for its Spanish acronym). He served as academic secretary of the Labor Relations Programme (UBA) and as deputy secretary of Advanced Studies (School of Social Sciences, UBA). 

He leads research and extension projects. He has published in the fields of service-learning, labor studies, social movements, labor movement, youth participation and human rights. He worked as an advisor in the Council for Education and Labor of the Province of Buenos Aires (COPRET, for its Spanish acronym), and as a consultant in the “Solidarity Education National Program” of the Argentine Ministry of Education. He has also been a teacher at different education levels, participating as a trainer in social organizations with popular education and youth leadership projects. Between 2018 and 2021 he worked as coordinator of regional meetings and areas for the project entitled “Networked Civil Society to Consolidate Democracy” supported by the European Union.

Br. Alejandro González Cerna was born in 1985. He received the robe of the De La Salle Christian Brothers in 2005 and professed final vows in 2013.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education and a second one in Theology and Religious Studies awarded by different Universities in Mexico; A Postgraduate Diploma in Lasallian Studies from the La Salle Open University in Andorra, and Master’s Degrees in Education from La Salle Noroeste University in México,  and in Lasallian Leadership from St. Mary’s University of MInnesota in the US.

He obtained his PhD in Education from La Salle University in Ciudad Obregón, México in 2019 with a dissertation focusing on the evaluation of Lasallian Educational Quality in Latin America.

He has undergone training as a formator in Christian Social Doctrine and in Spiritual Accompaniment in the Mexican Institute for Christian Social Justice and the Centre for Pastoral Training and Research respectively, both in Mexico City.

He taught in diverse subject areas in elementary, middle and high school and was an advisor for the Academy of Philosophy of the Higher Seminary School of the Diocese of Hermosillo in Mexico.

He co-hosted in the online Radio show “Ven y Sígueme” for Comunidad de Fe Radio and participated as a researcher in the 2012 International Session for Lasallian Studies in Rome.

He served as headmaster at Colegio Regis’ High School and represented the North-Mexico Lasallian District in the Council for Lasallian Educational Mission of the Latin American Lasallian Region during the 2015-2018 term.

Since 2018 he serves as university professor and collaborates in Lasallian formation programmes for teachers of the Lasallian schools in Bethlehem, Jaffa and Jerusalem in the Holy Land. Since 2021 he has also assumed the office of Dean of the Faculty of Education and Chair of the Curriculum and Pedagogy Department at Bethlehem University in Palestine.

He participated in the 2023 Consultation on Education for Human Flourishing, organized by Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program and the Jubilee Center for Character and Virtues and is a faculty member of IALU’s (International Association of Lasallian Universities) Leadership Programme for Lasallian University Faculty and Staff held every summer in Rome.

Dr. Gutiérrez is an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Theological Formation, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He is a Junior Research Fellow (Postdoc) in Humanities and Social Sciences at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. His work bridges research, teaching, and international consultancy on religion and peacebuilding.

Dr. Gutiérrez earned his DPhil in Theology and Religion from the University of Oxford with highest honors, supervised by Alister McGrath and Maria Power, and examined by John Paul Lederach and Mark Wynn. Fully funded by Porticus, his doctorate explored the peaceable role of religious imaginaries in the Colombian Truth Commission‘s Final Report. He also holds an MSt in Science and Religion (Oriel College, Oxford) and degrees in philosophy from Javeriana (MA) and La Sabana (BA).

His interests include imagination, spirituality, artistic world-building, and the peacebuilding potential of dialogical and analogical reasoning.

Andrea Guzowski is a fourth year student at Walsh University from Middleburg Heights, Ohio. She is studying Nursing with a minor in Exercise Science. She has also been a Blouin Scholar and a three-year student athlete while at Walsh. Andrea is passionate about sports and after graduation in May of 2026, she hopes to work in cardiac health.

André Habisch holds a Diploma in Theology (University of Tübingen, 1988) and in Economics (Free University Berlin, 1992), earned his PhD in Theology in 1993 and habilitated in Social Ethics in 1998. Since 1998, he has held the professorship in Christian Social Ethics and Social Policy at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) where his research spans sustainable management, corporate social responsibility (CSR), social capital, and the “practical wisdom” approach to management.
Within the domain of higher-education pedagogy and community engagement, Habisch has been instrumental in advancing service-learning (Lernen durch Engagement) models. At KU, he leads seminars such as “Social Innovation I & II” where students collaborate with social enterprises and start-ups (including those in sub-Saharan Africa) to apply business knowledge for social impact — a clear embodiment of integrating academic learning and real-world service.

Mariana Humenna (Ukraine) – Master’s student in the Languages and Cultures of Europe program at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, communications Manager of the international quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal Space & Culture.
Completed Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University.
An Erasmus+ exchange student at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (2022–2023).

Fritzie is currently the Vice President for Lasallian Mission of De La Salle University. As an active Lasallian Partner, she also serves as Chair of the Lasallian Partners Council of De La Salle Philippines of the Philippine Sector. She is also a member of the Lasallian East Asia District Mission Council and the PARC Secretariat for Formation with/for Association. She is serving the Institute of the Brothers of Christian Schools as a member of the International Council for Lasallian Association and the Educational Mission (CIAMEL). Fritzie finished a degree in Bachelor of Arts Major in Psychology and a Masters in the Industrial /Organizational Psychology in De La Salle University. She finished all the academic courses and currently writing her Dissertation for her PhD in Educational Leadership and Management also in DLSU. She is a mother of two children named River and Sky. 

Psychologist from the Universidad de la Frontera and Master in Educational Policy from the Universidad Alberto Hurtado de Chile. She was Coordinator of the Christian Humanist Education Curriculum at the Catholic University of Temuco between 2004 and 2007. Between 2007-2009 she was a professional at Puentes UC, linking academic resources with municipalities in the Metropolitan Region.
Between 2009 and 2012 she coordinated the UC Service Learning Program, leading the work of the national network and transmitting the methodology to different educational institutions. From 2012 – 2019 she is Deputy Director of the Centre for Teacher Development UC. Since 2020 she has been the director of the centre, leading the implementation of online classes for undergraduate and master’s degrees, as well as the training of university professors.
National leader of the Service Learning Methodology, implementing workshops and giving conferences for educational institutions in Chile, Latin America and Europe. She also advises different educational institutions. Member of the national network of Service Learning and of “The Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship”. She has presented at national and international seminars on the methodology and has published in several educational journals.

Jan Kamiński, PhD, Eng., landscape architect, teacher and researcher in the Department of Landscape Planning and Design at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (KUL). He is the coordinator of the international project “Uniservitate” at KUL. He completed the “Training for Leaders – Institutionalization of Service-Learning in Catholic Higher Education” training program organized by The Latin American Center for Service Learning (CLAYSS). He is a co-author of first Polish handbook on Service Learning for academic teachers. He supervises the “Landscape & Space” Student Research Club at the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL). He uses innovative teaching methods, including Service Learning, in his classes with landscape architecture students. He also conducts workshops and field trips in the field of landscape architecture. His research interests include urban landscape, urban green networks, sustainable urban planning, and social participation.

Stephano Kamwaza is a Catholic priest from Malawi belonging to the Order of Discalced Carmelites. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theology from the Teresianum Pontifical College in Rome and a Diploma in Philosophy from the Inter-Congregational Institute in Malawi. He is currently in his final year of Bachelor of Laws (LLB) studies at the Catholic University of Malawi. His academic and pastoral interests lie at the intersection of faith, justice, and human dignity, reflecting his commitment to both spiritual formation and social transformation.

Br. Tom Kearney, is australian and have lived in Africa since 1995. He has ministry experience as a community based counsellor, as a formator, a lecturer, and an administrator at Tangaza University College, as well as the District Leader of the Christian Brothers in East Africa. His involvement in these ministries and his background in Psychology and Spirituality studies, has made him aware of the personal issues and dynamics of the struggle through life and the various unjust social arrangements, which have kept people in their social situations. His working with these people, especially those at the margins, has created an awareness of the need to have a developed Spirituality which is able to take account of the realities of life – relationship to the world, to the people in the world, to self and to God – and to be able to reconcile these with Christian beliefs. He discovered the need to have well integrated leaders in ministry who would be able to work with their people to transform society as the way to address the undesirable inequalities.

Founder and former CEO of the National Youth Leadership Council. He is co- author of two books and more than 30 articles, and has lectured widely on youth and education issues.

He holds a Ph.D. in education from the University of Colorado, a M.A. in international relations from American University in Washington, D.C., and a B.S. in Zoology from Wheaton College (IL).

Recognitions include:
– Honorary Dr. of Laws, Concordia University, St. Paul;
– The George Norlin Award for lifetime achievement, University of Colorado
– The Kurt Hahn Award, Association of Experiential Education.  

Diana P. Loera Rodríguez. Associate Director of the International Association of La Salle Universities (IALU), where her main function is the internationalization and management of the international Lasallian higher education network, promoting collaboration between the nearly 70 institutions that comprise it. Mexican, Engineer in Information Systems from Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey. Master’s degree in Administration specializing in Educational Technology Management from the EGADE Business School of Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey. Master in Lasallian Leadership and candidate for a Doctorate in Education in Leadership from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Promoter of the Collaborative Online International Learning Program (COIL) in the Lasallian network, director of the Lasallian Leadership programs, collaborator in the Communication project of the Global Educational Compact of the Secretariat of Association and Mission of the Institute, with the Integral Ecology Network of the Latin American region and in the Environmental Sustainability Education Initiative of the Middle District in the United States. Co-author of the book Higher Education in Lasallian Perspective.

She studied a Master ́s degree in education with a specialisation in teaching-learning processes and a PhD in Social Sciences at the Tecnológico de Monterrey. A Master in Cultural, Social and School Services Management at the University of Florence in Italy. He has worked as a teacher in secondary, high school and higher education in different educational institutions such as the Mater Instituto, Universidad Tecmilenio, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Universidad de Monterrey, in subjects of: humanities, social sciences, entrepreneurship and social responsibility. He has collaborated in the development and consolidation of different projects and social initiatives. She founded the organisation Pequeños Gigantes Mexicanos A.C., which protects the human rights of children and adolescents living in residential homes in Nuevo León, through which she has contributed to the generation of public policies in favour of this population. She is currently Director of the Solidarity and Philanthropy Centre of the University of Monterrey.

Dr. Teresa Loong is the Vice Rector for Student Life at the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) in Macau, overseeing student and alumni development and domestic student recruitment. She holds a Doctor of Education in Higher Education Management from Northeastern University, USA (2022). A committed advocate for inclusion, she led USJ to become the first university in Macau to admit a visually impaired student and introduce an Equality and Diversity Policy. She was the inaugural President of the Macao Student Affairs Association and now serves as Vice President of the Macau Higher Education Development Association and Chair of the Steering Committee of the Association of the Southeast and East Asian Catholic Colleges and Universities (ASEACCU). Currently, she is spearheading the institutionalization of Service-Learning at USJ, contributing to its approval and establishing a coordinating entity to embed this pedagogy into the university’s mission. Committed to building bridges, Dr. Loong focuses on nurturing compassionate and responsible leaders dedicated to serving the community and advancing the common good.

Luwerekera Bernard is a member of faculty and coordinator of the Service Learning Programme at the University of Kisubi in Uganda, Eastern Africa, since its inception in 2020. He holds a doctorate from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) in Nairobi, Kenya; a Licentiate and a Bachelor of Theology from the University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy; and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) from Makerere University in Uganda. His career as educator and mentor for young people spans over thirty years, with a vast and diverse tertiary-level experience gained from across the wider East African region. His research interests broadly fall under the contemporary and comparative issues of religion as a soft, yet, powerful agency for social change and transformation; the nexus between religion, theology, spirituality and society; the inexhaustible wisdom of the world’s indigenous peoples that underpinned their near instinctive consciousness for the conservation of nature and the environment; as well as African cultural heritage confronted by its uneasy encounter with modernity, globalization and the pluralism of values. 

Carol Ma is a leading expert in Service-Learning (S-L) and Ageing in Asia, serving as Head of Gerontology Programmes at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. She pioneered the service-learning curriculum in Hong Kong universities and successfully integrated it with the university’s curriculum, making it a valuable academic experience in higher education in Hong Kong and the region. In Singapore, Carol also spearheads curriculum development, community engagement, and applied research in gerontology, advocating for transdisciplinary education to address ageing issues. She has led impactful projects, including the first geragogy guidelines in Singapore, innovative dementia care programmes, reminiscence facilitation programmes, and older adults’ functional capacity under the WHO ICOPE framework, etc. She is an advisor for caregiver and eldercare services with the NCSS, a member of the Tote Board Community Health Fund (TBCHF) Evaluation Panel, an advisor for the International Longevity Centre Singapore. Internationally, she is an advisor of Inclusive learning for the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and an academic board member for the Uniservitate (Global network of Catholic Higher Education Institutions to promote service-learning).

Bakashaba Mark is a Ugandan student born in November 2003, 22 years old now, in his final year of a Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology at the University of Kisubi. He is the Emeritus President of the Service-Learning Club, a GRC Representative for Students with Special Needs, and Co-Founder of the Child’s Race Initiative, a community project promoting inclusivity and empowering young people through education. Mark has served in multiple student leadership roles and remains committed to using service learning, and innovation to create positive community change.

Xus Martín is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education of the University of Barcelona; member of the GREM (Grup de Recerca en Educación Moral) and coordinator of the Master’s Degree “Education in values and citizenship”. Her lines of research focus on education in values, service learning and young people at risk of exclusion.
Her publications include: Projects with soul. Project work with community service (Graó, 2016); Educarse es de valientes. Aprendizaje servicio con adolescentes en riesgo de exclusión (Octaedro, 2018) and “Una pedagogía a favor de la inclusión” (Revista de Educación Social, 2020).
 

She is a professor and researcher at the San Jorge University (Zaragoza, Spain), where she served as Vice-Dean of the Education Department, being responsible for the design and implementation of the degrees in Early Childhood Education and Primary Education and the Master’s Degree in Secondary Education. In 2005 she defended the first doctoral thesis on service-learning in Spain at the University of Navarra. Since 2003, she has been working on service-learning at an academic and professional level, implementing this approach in her university. She is also dedicated to the training of teachers of all educational stages in service-learning and is the author of several publications related to the subject. She is a member of different service-learning networks in Spain and of the ECONOMIUS-J research team at San Jorge University

PhD in Philosophy and Educational Sciences from the University of Barcelona. He is Professor of Theory of Education – now retired – and a member of the research group (GREM) at the University of Barcelona, where he has been principal investigator. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Education, Director of the Institute of Education Sciences and Vice-Rector of the University of Barcelona.

He participates as a consultant and evaluator in different projects, agencies, institutions, educational administrations and universities in Spain and internationally. He is a member of the Academic Council of UNISERVITATE and of the Planeta-University of Barcelona Chair in Higher Education Studies.

Assistant Director for Higher Education in the Secretariat of Catholic Education, at the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops. Barbara assists bishops and presidents of Catholic colleges and universities by promoting dialogue and collaboration for the advancement of Catholic Higher Education. She supports Catholic campus ministers in all institutional venues through formation and networking opportunities. Barbara coordinated two national studies on Catholic campus ministry. Prior to working at the USCCB, Barbara served in campus ministry engaging students and faculty in promoting justice, spiritual enrichment, and team building.

Since 2024, he has been an official of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See, whose prefect is Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, as well as secretary general of the Pontifical Foundation Gravissimum educationis.
Ordained a priest in 2001, his work has been linked to the mission of being spokesperson for Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanti for 12 years, from 2007 to 2011, and then for Cardinal Angelo Scola until 2017. For several months, he was also spokesperson for the current Archbishop of Milan, Monsignor Mario Delpini.
Since 2015, he has been president of the CEI Entertainment Organization Foundation. He was appointed parish priest of Lecco in 2018, where he created the Lecco Film Fest. He was also responsible for the reopening of L’Aquilone, the renovated parish cinema, as well as the ongoing project for the construction of the new oratory.

Dr. Nick Morris has served as the Director of Walsh University’s Brother Francis Blouin Scholars Program for three years. He leads both faculty and students to deliver lasting intellectual service to the community addressing social issues focused on the intersection of poverty and social issues of housing, health, hunger and education. For nearly 20 years Nick has led collaborative community initiatives in higher education both as a community partner and higher education leader at both private and public institutions. His 2016 dissertation Relocating Education for Sustainability: From the campus to the community won a 2017 Campus Research award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. 

Prior to this role, Nick most recently served as a nonprofit consultant, a Lecturer of Environmental Studies at Kent State University, and as the Program Specialist with Arizona 4-H at the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension.

Assistant Professor in Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, and member of the Research Centre for Human Development. She completed her PhD in Educational Sciences – Educational Psychology. She teaches psychological intervention in educational settings and community psychology. Her research interests include student involvement and self-regulated learning, classroom questioning, teacher and student’s perceptions of teaching and learning, and education of vulnerable children and adolescents. She has been a member of nationally and internationally funded projects on promoting youth involvement and social engagement and on citizenship education. Since 2020 she is responsible in UCP, together with Carmo Themudo from the Unit for the Development of the Person, for CApS Project – Catholic University and Service Learning: Innovation and Social Responsibility, aiming at implementing and institutionalizing Service Learning in UCP, stimulating pedagogical innovation and social responsibility.

Maria Müller-Pulsfuß is an enthusiastic and dedicated educator and scholar who brings a diverse academic background and extensive practical teaching experience to her field.
Maria holds two Magister Artium degrees, one in Latin American History and the other in German as a Foreign Language, both from the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt. Her academic career reflects an early interest in interdisciplinary studies and a commitment to academic excellence.
Beyond her academic achievements, Maria has ventured into various roles in the education sector. Most notably, she has been a driving force behind the cooperation with Jesuit Worldwide Learning (JWL), where she has made significant contributions as a project coordinator and academic advisor at the Faculty of Religious Studies and Education at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt. Her commitment has played a key role in the
development and transformation of the faculty.
In addition, Maria has had a significant impact on teacher education and professional development through her role as a lecturer at KU Eichstaett-Ingolstadt. In collaboration with JWL, she has taught courses, including ‘Learning Facilitator’, which have made a lasting global impact on teacher education.
What sets Maria apart is her strong commitment to community engagement and social impact. Her involvement in ‘Studium.Pro: Service-Learning at the Margins’ exemplifies her dedication to promoting education in marginalized communities. Maria is also an active member of the Uniservitate Hub.

In her current position as Student Advisor and Coordinator for Internships and Service-Learning Projects at the School of Transformation and Sustainability at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Maria plays a pivotal role in guiding and facilitating students’ practical experiences, contributing to the development of future change-makers and community leaders. Maria serves as a mentor and guide to both local and international students, fostering a rich and inclusive learning environment.
With extensive experience in language teaching, intercultural studies, program
development, and service-learning, Maria continues to be a driving force in the field of education. Her commitment to promoting inclusive education, her active involvement in service-learning initiatives, and her passionate advocacy for language learning and intercultural understanding make her a valuable asset to any academic institution or educational project.

Patrick Mwania is a religious priest of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost Fathers (Spiritans). Presently Vice Chancellor/Rector of Tangaza University.

He holds a Licentiate Degree in Systematic Theology and a Doctorate Degree in Theology with specialization in Mission Theology from Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule, St. Augustine, Germany. Holder of MA in African Studies from De Paul University, Minnesota, USA. 

Theology Professor at Tangaza University and the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and an External Examiner for the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and Hekima University College. He is external examiner for the post-graduate studies in the Catholic University of Eastern Africa – Main Campus and Hekima University College, Nairobi. 

Among his publications are:

•  A book by the title: The African Woman as an Agent of Evangelization: Her Role and Function in the Mission Activity of the Church in Africa (2009). 

• A newly published book Church, Salvation and Religions (2016).

Prof. Mwania has published numerous articles in book chapters, different periodicals and significant peer reviewed journals across Africa and Europe.

Sarah Mohamed Noor is a student at Tangaza University College (TUC) in Nairobi, Kenya, pursuing her degree in Education. She currently works as a teacher at Little Scholars Academy, where she combines classroom learning with community service and holistic education.

She has actively participated in the Community Service Learning Programme under the Community Engagement Office at Tangaza University, where she has successfully implemented two major projects. Her first project focused on the production of reusable sanitary towels, while her current project promotes reproductive health awareness in Kuwinda informal settlement in Lang’ata.

Sarah has developed strong skills in community mobilization, health education, and participatory learning. Her passion for empowering women and young people through education drives her continued involvement in community development initiatives.

She is part of this presentation to share insights from her field experience and to demonstrate how service-learning can promote dignity, health awareness, and sustainable social transformation in marginalized communities.

With a bachelor’s degree in communication, a Master’s in Pedagogy, she is also a family counselor and coach for youth, marriages, and families. She is a Ph.D. in Family Sciences. President of a non-profit organization, Construye, Observatory of Women. Since 2008, she has directed Be Human, an international program for training young leaders who participate as youth delegates in International Conferences on Women and Population at the United Nations, representing eight countries.

Since 2008, she has participated annually in International Conferences at the European Parliament and the United Nations on issues related to the defense of family, women, and religious freedom. She has been a speaker at national and international forums in Spain, Italy, Hungary, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and various forums in Mexico. 

She was named ‘Woman of the Year 2011’ in the category of Social Development by Promomedios. She was the national director of the Association in Favor of Better Media AC. 

She is a screenwriter and film producer, participating in films such as ‘El Estudiante,’ ‘Ella y el Candidato,’ and more recently, ‘Ilusiones SA.’ 

She has been a professor at Anáhuac University North and South and Coordinator of Humanities at Anáhuac University Mexico North, Academic Coordinator at IJPII. 

She was Director of the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, Mexico Campus. 

She is currently a university profesor teaching Social Responsability and coordinates the Expanded Reason Institute at the Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid.

Born in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. In 2021, he began his studies at the Law School of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU).
In 2023, as part of a mandatory course, Yaroslav joined the UCU Legal Clinic, a project where law students gain their first hands-on legal experience while providing free legal assistance to soldiers, veterans, their families, and civilians affected by the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Since 2024, Yaroslav has been a full-time member of the Legal Clinic team, where he continues to support military personnel and war-affected individuals, while also mentoring students. Through his teaching, he shares his knowledge, experience, and values inspiring the next generation of lawyers to see service as both a professional duty and a moral vocation.
Yaroslav is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at the Faculty of Law of the Ukrainian Catholic University and works as a lawyer with the NGO “Legal Hundred,” which also provides legal aid to soldiers, veterans, and their families.

Tommy Nyawir, a Kenyan change agent, a husband and dad of two amazing kids, has lived and worked in Nairobi since January, 1992. He has work experience as a Community
Development Office a psychological Counsellor and a Social Worker.

At 14, Tommy had finished primary school, worked hard and scored good grades. His family however were incredibly poor, they lived in Africa’s largest urban slum, Kibera, Nairobi and his parents had been unable to find regular work for a long time. The family faced a daily struggle to buy even the most basic needs like food and clothing. Paying the school fees required to send Tommy to secondary school was simply an impossibility. Devastated Tommy, resigned himself to the fact that he would never finish his education.

By sheer luck, Tommy met a stranger (a tourist) visiting the slum one morning and through a simple interaction, the man offered to pay Tommy’s school fees for the entire secondary schooling. To this day however, Tommy doesn’t remember the name of the man who helped him, all he knows is he was from Ireland and his generosity created the opportunity for Tommy to finish school and eventually move him and his family out of the slum.

Due to Tommy’s outstanding leadership skills, he won a scholarship through the Catholic Scholarship Program to study a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Sustainable Human Development at Tangaza University College, a constituent college of The Catholic University of Eastern Africa. Studying at Tangaza university College not only enabled Tommy to acquire the much-needed university degree but also expanded his horizon on a variety of issues that affected his community on a daily basis. The education at Tangaza was holistic and transformative in all aspects. Important to note is the Service-Learning Methodology which sharpened Tommy’s skills as he engaged with his community linking theory, his faith and action. Tommy is currently pursuing an interest in Masters in Autism Studies.

Tommy has a great passion for making a difference in the lives of the poor and the marginalized children, youth, women and men. He has a strong belief that every child deserves a right to education and good health.

Being a beneficiary of someone else’s generosity that saw him acquire secondary school education at a time when he had ruled out ever continuing with his education, and inspired by the transformation he acquired from his studies at Tangaza University College, Tommy made a decision to see as many children, youth, women and men as possible access basic education which he believes is the only way to eradicate poverty. This belief coupled with the desire to give back to the community after being given so much by a stranger, led him to found Mirror of Hope which is a community based organization working to enhance access to quality education, entrepreneurship and employment opportunities to vulnerable children, youth, women and men of Kibera Slums..

Kathia coordinates a variety of Service-Learning projects at KU Leuven Engage and leads strategic initiatives, both regionally and internationally, to sustainably institutionalise Service-Learning in higher education. She takes responsibility for strategy development, capacity building, and deepening the pedagogical approach, with a strong focus on the professionalisation of teachers and teaching teams. She is also particularly interested in and actively exploring the third mission of higher education, especially the ways in which universities connect with communities and strengthen their public role in society.

Aiur Retegi Uria is an Investigator at the Deusto Design Research Group at the University of Deusto, where he contributes to the strategic vision and future development of the design area. His work focuses on bridging academia and society through interdisciplinary design research that addresses real-world social challenges. As a researcher and educator, Aiur is committed to collaborative and community-centered approaches that align with the principles of Service Learning. He currently leads the **Co-Bien project** (Interreg POCTEFA), which focuses on fostering digital technologies to combat loneliness and social isolation, working directly with communities to promote integral wellbeing. His research interests span several areas critical to sustainable and inclusive futures, including social design, health and wellbeing, sustainable design methodologies, and the integration of emerging technologies in service of community needs. Aiur is passionate about creating learning environments that connect students with social organizations and real-world projects, enabling meaningful contributions to society while developing professional competencies.At Deusto, Aiur tries to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and believes in the transformative potential of design thinking to address complex social challenges. He works closely with social organizations, healthcare institutions, and community partners to develop projects that generate positive impact while providing rich educational experiences for students.

Dr. Rowena Roppelt is a Canadian liturgist who has lived and worked in Germany for over 20 years. She studied theology at the Toronto School of Theology and earned her doctorate from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Roppelt has been actively involved in Catholic youth ministry for many years, particularly in the dioceses of Eichstätt and Munich. From 2020 to 2025, she served as interim professor in the School of Transformation and Sustainability at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, where she continues to teach as a Senior Lecturer.

In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Dr. Roppelt serves as the Academic Leader of the Jesuit Worldwide Learning project at the university.

Dr. Howard Rosing is the Executive Director of the Steans Center. He oversees the work of Academic Service Learning and the Egan Office for Urban Education and Community Partnerships and supports DePaul’s partnership with the Asset-Based Community Development Institute. He works with faculty to develop scholarship on service-learning and community-based research and serves as a faculty member in Community Service Studies and an affiliate faculty member in Geography, Sustainable Urban Development (MASUD) and Community Psychology. He also co-directs MASUD. Dr. Rosing has taught and developed numerous service learning courses including Community Food Systems, Sustainable Urban Food Systems, and Geography, Food and Justice. His teaching directly supports DePaul’s Minor in Food Studies and Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Urban Food Systems. Dr. Rosing is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on sustainable food systems development, urban food access, economic restructuring, and food justice movements in Chicago and the Dominican Republic.

Dr Joanna Marie Oliva-Pesquidous is Manager of the Catholic Mission at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, where she leads initiatives that integrate Catholic identity and values across the University’s academic, pastoral, and community life.

She completed her PhD in Education as an All Hallows Scholar in the G.R.A.C.E. Project (Global Researchers Advancing Catholic Education), exploring the impact of Catholic education to the formation of women leaders in the Philippines. Joanna also holds an MA in Catholic School Leadership from St Mary’s University (UK) and an MA in Religious Studies from the Don Bosco School of Theology (Philippines).

Before joining St Mary’s, Joanna served as Chair and Assistant Professor of Theology at Assumption College, San Lorenzo (Philippines), and has been deeply involved in mission formation and Catholic education in both academic and pastoral contexts. Her work bridges theology, leadership, common good, and mission, fostering global dialogue on the role of women and faith in education.

Susan O’Rourke, EdD, is a Professor in Special Education and Director of Center for Global Engagement at Carlow University. She earned her doctorate in Instructional Design & Technology and a Masters in Special Education from the University of Pittsburgh. Susan was a teacher for children with multiple disabilities at The Children’s Institute for 10 years prior to joining the faculty at Carlow in 1997.  Susan is a Past President of the Division of International Special Education and Services (DISES) – a division of the Counsel for Exceptional Children (CEC) and provides professional development to teachers across the globe. Committed to bringing professional educators together, Dr. O’Rourke developed the Carlow & DISES Round Tables and chaired several DISES conferences for international collaborations. A proponent of the value of service-learning, Dr. O’Rourke developed multiple service-focused study abroad programs. She wholeheartedly embraces the Mercy mission of ‘serving the underserved’ by leading teams of volunteers and students to work in developing regions in Africa and Central America to improve the lives of vulnerable children including those with disabilities, children whose support structures have been compromised (orphans), or those who have experienced trauma through abuse, disasters or conflicts. She is a founding member of the non-profit Vulnerable Children and Youth Action (VCAYA) responsible for drilling 11 clean water wells and building the first inclusive school in the Teso Region of Uganda. Publications include the British Journal of Technology, Exceptional Children and chapters in textbooks. 

Br. Bernard S. Oca FSC, De La Salle University’s 24th president, has a rich history with Lasallian institutions, having completed his early education, undergraduate, and higher degrees at De La Salle establishments. His academic career is marked by excellence, including graduating summa cum laude and earning a Doctor of Education. Br. Bernie’s commitment to the Lasallian mission began in 1971, leading to his final vows in 1980. He has held several leadership roles within the Lasallian network, including president of La Salle Green Hills and De La Salle Santiago Zobel School and significant administrative positions at DLSU. Since becoming DLSU president in 2021, Br. Bernie has focused on advancing the university’s research programs and infrastructure development across its campuses, including Manila and Bonifacio Global City. Under his guidance, DLSU has enhanced its sports facilities, spiritual areas, and academic collaborations, emphasizing the holistic development of its community. His strategic initiatives bolster faculty-student engagement and support Philippine enterprises and localization of UN Sustainable Development Goals. Under Br. Bernie’s leadership, DLSU has maintained its position as a top institution globally and the leading private research university in the Philippines, reflecting its commitment to providing quality Lasallian education and contributing to sustainable solutions for the future.

He holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires and is a
specialist in international relations and negotiations from FLACSO and the University of San Andrés.
Between 2000 and 2015 he was a consultant at the National Ministry of Education,
specialising in the promotion of service-learning projects in schools, colleges, universities and youth organisations.
Since the creation of CLAYSS, he has been involved in the development of the
organisation's International Relations, participates in the meetings of the Ibero-American Network of Service-Learning and in the coordination of the Latin American node of the Talloires Network of Universities.
Since 2010, he has been the coordinator of the Support Programme for Latin American Universities in Solidarity.
To these activities he adds the development of his teaching career at both secondary and university level, and his experience in teaching workshops and courses.

PhD in Social Work from the Portuguese Catholic University. She is currently a pedagogical coordinator in the Master in Social Work and an assistant professor of the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University. Coordinates the Post-Graduation of Evaluation in Programs and Social Projects, of Artistic Practices and Social Inclusion and Management of Projects in Cooperation for Development. Researcher at the Católica Research Center for Psychological, Family and Social Wellbeing, her areas of publication and research are in the areas of social innovation and social intervention, intervention with families and youth, theories for practice in Social Work and social and intercultural mediation. Consultant in the areas of planning, management and evaluation of programs and projects, territorial strategic planning, leadership and team management. Her publishing areas are located in the intervention areas with young people, in Social Work theories and practices, and in social and intercultural mediation, where the following books stand out:“The Strength Theory – A referential for practice in social intervention” (2016), “The Turn of the Arrow: positive factors in the lives of young people at risk” (2010) and “Sociocultural Mediation in Portugal: a puzzle under construction ” (2005).  

He is, since 2020, President of the Portuguese Episcopal Conference. and Bishop of Setúbal. In 2015 he was appointed, by Pope Francis, Bishop of the Diocese of Setúbal.
Born on the Island of Madeira, and wishing to be a missionary, he asked to enter the Missionary College of the Congregation of the Priests of the Heart of Jesus (Dehonians) in Funchal, and then continued his studies at the Missionary Institute in Coimbra. He finished his Degree in Theology at the Catholic University of Portugal. He specialized in Biblical Sciences in Rome and Jerusalem and concluded the Canonical Licentiate at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He was ordained a priest on 9 August 1981.
He prepared for his doctorate in Rome and Germany (1992-1996), obtaining a doctorate in Biblical Theology at the Catholic University of Portugal in 1997 where he resumed his teaching activities until 2003.
In his Congregation, he was a formator at the Alfragide Seminary alongside his teaching activities and assumed other positions within the Portuguese Province of the Dehonians, becoming Provincial Superior on July 1, 2000. At the General Chapter of the Congregation, he was elected Superior General of the Dehonians, a position he held from 2003 to 2015.

Professor at Catholic University of Ghana (CUG), in Sunyani, Ghana, where he served as acting dean of students. He is the head of the management department, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, and a member of CUG academic board and service learning committee. A priest of the Konongo-Mampong Diocese, he has been involved with university campus ministry since 2012, from Drake University (USA) to CUG (Ghana). He serves as the facilitator of young priests’ training and a member of the credit union committee of the diocese. Additionally, he is the founder of New Hope Wellness Centre, a non-profit clinic providing rehab therapy to individuals struggling with addiction and mental illness. Mark earned his B.A. in religions and sociology at the University of Ghana and theological studies at St Peter’s Regional Seminary (Ghana). He got his MBA at the University of St Thomas (Min., USA) and Ph.D. in Human Capital Management at Bellevue University (Neb., USA). Mark has a broad experience as a university educator, a researcher, and an advocate for those dealing with addiction and mental health.

Rita Paiva e Pona is Advisor of the Rectory for Social Responsibility and Coordinator of the Social Responsibility Office of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, contributing to the development of a social responsibility project with the aim of involving the different stakeholders in a common and sustainable strategy. With a degree in Foreign Languages by Universidade Católica Portuguesa, she complemented her academic training in the areas of Management, Coaching and Social Entrepreneurship. Passionate about people and teamwork, she is keen on building bridges and bringing together common objectives. She lives and works with the goal of leaving the world better than she found it.
 

Alexandre Palma is a theologian, catholic priest and university professor.
He was born in Lisbon in 1978 and ordained priest in 2006. After beginning his studies in engineering, he graduated in theology from Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2005), where he also completed his master’s degree (2008). He later resided in Rome, where he received a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University (2013). Since returning to Lisbon, he has taught at Universidade Católica Portuguesa where he is an assistant professor and a researcher at the CITER – Research Center for Theology and Religion Studies (he is currently CITER’s director). His research focuses on theological epistemology, the question of God, Christology, theology of religions and theology of space.

Andrés Nicolás Peregalli de Palleja is Vice General Coordinator of the Uniservitate Programme: Service-learning in Higher Education (PORTICUS-CLAYSS). Coordinator of the EFI (Inclusive Formative Experiences; service-learning), in the Faculty of Social Sciences, UCA. He has a PhD in Education, Master and Specialist in Education with a Concentration in Educational Management (University of San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina). He has obtained a degree in Education Sciences with a specialization in Research and Teaching (University of the Republic, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Education Sciences, Uruguay). Graduated in Philosophy (University Salesian Institute, Montevideo, Uruguay). Salesian member of a religious order from 1995 to 2001. Full Professor, Catholic University of Argentina (Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Education. Inclusive and effective education). Undergraduate and postgraduate lecturer in national and foreign universities. Educator and member of management teams of Civil Society Organisations in Uruguay and Argentina working with children, adolescents and young adults from low-income sectors. Member of national and international academic and research networks. Author of books, book chapters and papers.

Professor at Tangaza University College (TUC), in Nairobi, Kenya, where she heads the Community Engagement programme. She has served in Academic, Regional, Non-Governmental and Faith-Based Organizations in different Managerial and Leadership Capacities since 2005. She currently coordinates the Service-Learning Regional Hub for Africa. She has acquired extensive experience as a University Educator, as well in Community Development and Research.

Dr Matthew Pink is the Associate Director (Acting), ACU Engagement at Australian Catholic University. His research areas of interest include the transformational processes of university-community engagement, sport for positive youth development in developing, and developed nations, and athlete welfare and development. Matthew is passionate about harnessing the power of universities and communities to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. Matthew was a student who was personally transformed by a service-learning experience working with football in Timor Leste and has since always made time for service-learning and community engagement in his career spanning 12 years with Australian Catholic University. He is author of over 10 publications across the community engagement, sport for development, and sport and exercise psychology fields and was lead academic in developing the 3×3 model of student learning and well-being during international community engagement. Matthew received his doctorate from ACU in 2016 and was co-academic-lead in establishing the ACU and DePaul University (Chicago) Conference on Community Engagement and Service-learning. In his teaching career, Matthew has received two citations for the quality of his teaching and in particular for showing empathy and support for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Matthew has been the representative in ACU’s first three years of involvement in Uniservitate. 

Michele Pistone, Founding Faculty Director of the Mother Cabrini Institute on Immigration, is chair and visionary behind Refugees and Migrants in Our Common Home.  A law professor at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law for 26 years, Michele Pistone speaks and publishes regularly on migration and asylum law, access to justice, technology, and on topics related to legal education, including online and hybrid teaching, student-centered course design, and formative assessment. Pistone is presently an expert advisor to the Holy See Mission to the United Nations on human rights and migration, a Fellow at the Center for Migration Studies in New York, and a Fellow at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System. Pistone was also a Fulbright scholar at the University of Malta, where she helped to launch Malta’s first clinical education program in the law faculty. At Villanova, she founded and directed an asylum law clinic and was awarded a J.M.K. Innovation Prize to launch VIISTA (Villanova Interdisciplinary Immigration Studies Training for Advocates) the first-ever online university-based certificate program to train non-lawyers to become immigrant advocates and Accredited Representatives authorized to provide legal representation to immigrants in immigration courts and before US Citizenship and Immigration Services. She was a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Resident in March 2024.

Prof. Dr. François Prouteau is Deputy President-Rector for Humanities at Université Catholique de Lille, France. He holds a degree from the Institut Mines-Telecom Atlantique, ranked among the best engineering schools in France. He earned his Doctorate in Educational Sciences and has been actively involved in Catholic higher education for over 30 years. In 1989, he created the higher education establishment IFF Europe, later directing it in association with Université Catholique de l’Ouest. Then, as Moderator of Fondacio (2013-2023) and also a member of the CHARIS International Communion Service launched by Pope Francis in 2019, he has accompanied the implementation of numerous projects in the field of education and international cooperation. Since October 2023, he has been working on the deployment of the Humanities, including Service-Learning, for all the faculties, “Grandes écoles” and other schools of the Université Catholique de Lille.

Since 2018 she has been working as a programme consultant for the United Board, South Asia programmes. She previously served as Principal and Secretary of Lady Doak College, Madurai, India. During her tenure as principal, Dr. Mercy and her colleagues introduced Life Frontier Engagement–a community-based action research and experiential learning initiative–into the curriculum for all third-year students. Prior to becoming principal, she was a member of the chemistry faculty at Lady Doak College for more than three decades. Dr. Mercy received her MSc and MPhil in Chemistry from Madurai Kamaraj University and PhD from Alagappa University, Karaikudi. She is a peer team member in National Assessment and Accreditation Council and a member in the society of Lead Like Jesus, India. She is also a director of the Lady Doak College Foundation, Inc., USA, as a nominee from CUAC. 

Carina Rossa, PhD in Pedagogy. Professor at the Sophia University Institute. Researcher fellow at the EIS Higher Education School (Educating for Encounter and Solidarity) of the LUMSA University of Rome. Member of the technical and scientific committee of the Global Educational Pact. Her research interests mainly focus on the pedagogy of Pope Francis, prosociality, Service-Learning, inclusive education and childhood culture. Particular attention is dedicated to the following topics: – teaching methods and pedagogical guidelines emerging from the Global Compact on Education; – teaching for students with Special Educational Needs; – elaboration of programs for the promotion of pro-sociality in an educational context.

She has a degree in Psychology, a diploma in Religious Sciences and a PhD in Philosophy and Educational Sciences. For more than 20 years she has been working at the Catholic University of Valencia San Vicente Mártir as a lecturer in various subjects and in several master’s degrees. She has held various academic posts. Currently, she continues her teaching work in the Faculty of Psychology, co-directs the master’s degree in Helping Relationships and Counselling and is director of the ScholasOccurrentes Open Chair. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Pontifical Scholas Occurrentes Foundation. She participates in national and international conferences and seminars, contributing with papers and presentations on her research on Service-Learning. She is the author of several articles on school coexistence, intrinsic motivation in the development of vocational work and Service-Learning. She has been applying this methodology in the classroom for more than 10 years. She has given several courses on Service-Learning. She is a member of the State Network of Service-Learning and the Association of University Service-Learning and the group promoting Service-Learning in the Valencian Community.  

Shaji Joseph (Puykunnel), Salesian of Don Bosco (b. 1964) has a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute (Biblicum), Rome (1998), and a Ph.D. in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome (2004). He is currently Adjunct Professor of Old Testament and Director of the Department of Spirituality at the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS) Rome. He is also Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Religion in the Assam Don Bosco University, Guwahati, India. Along with his academic responsibilities and interests, he is also involved in promoting the rights of the differently abled and children at risk. From 1987 to 1991 he served as a volunteer in Don Bosco Ashalayam, a Salesian project for the rehabilitation of street children in Kolkata, India. From 1998 to 2013 he was Director of Caring for Disabled Children, a social outreach program of Sacred Heart Theological College, Shillong, India.

Sahaya G. Selvam is an associate professor of psychology at the Institute of Youth Studies, Tangaza University College, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. Originally from India, he has been serving as a Catholic Priest with the Salesians of Don Bosco in Kenya and Tanzania since 1992.

Religion/Spirituality and Wellbeing have been the central focus of Selvam’s academic ministry that extends over 30 years. He completed his MA in Philosophy at the age of 22, specialising in philosophy of religion. In line with the charism of his religious order, Selvam’s focus is youth and their education and formation.

In 2009, he completed an MA in psychology of religion at Heythrop College, University of London. He sees positive psychology and character strengths providing a viable framework for the psychological study of religion. He has evolved a concept of Religious-Spirituality challenging the dichotomous conceptualisation of religion and spirituality. His doctoral work, completed in 2012 also from University of London, explored the mediating role of character strengths in a Christian-mindfulness based intervention to facilitate recovery from addictive behaviour among university students in Nairobi. 

His research often employs action research bordering service learning. Every chapter of his recent book, Pastoral Psychology for Africa (Paulines, 2019), integrates the model of pastoral cycle (see, judge, and act), which he believes could be a model for service learning.

He served for a long time as a Social Action/Development Worker of the Diocese of Iba-Social Action Center of Zambales (SACZ) after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991. During his time in Social Action, he acquired a wealth of knowledge, skills, and an appreciation for development strategies that supported communities in establishing integrated programs, paving the way for empowerment, self-reliance, dignity, and happiness. Since 2002, he has been serving the University of Santo Tomas as a faculty member of the Department of Sociology, as a community development facilitator/worker from the Office for Community Development to the current Simbahayan Community Development Office, and as a researcher at the Research Center for Social Sciences and Education (RCSSED). In his engagements of teaching, community development, and research, he focuses more on issues, activities, and lives related to communities in their development and establishment with rights and dignity. He was one of the first to establish and serve as an officer of the Community Development Society of the Philippines (CDSP). He published/co-authored several papers and books related to community development engagement, community resiliency, and community and climate justice. He has successfully handled various tasks and designations, including community development facilitator, community organizer, and program development officer. He has served as the Assistant Director (from January 2016 to July 2020) and is currently the Director of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) SIMBAHAYAN Community Development Office (from August 2020 to present).

Project Coordinator and Service-Learning Developer at Université Catholique de Lille

Antoine Six is a Service-Learning coordinator at the Université Catholique de Lille (France). Deeply committed to educational innovation and social justice, he has developed several projects combining academic knowledge with real-world community engagement.

He leads the “Bus de l’Accès au Droit” (Legal Access Bus), a mobile legal clinic that travels to underserved areas, offering free legal information to marginalized populations, including youth and children in foster homes, asylum seekers, and families in precarious situations.

Antoine also plays a role in the development of the university-wide Humanités program, which promotes Service-Learning, ethics, and humanism across all faculties. He coordinates a network of faculty ambassadors, supports SL initiatives, and helps designs tools to support reflective learning practices.

A passionate advocate for student empowerment and civic responsibility, he believes that universities have a duty to form not only competent professionals, but also engaged citizens.

Alfonso Gabriel P. Solidum is a BS Biology student majoring in medical biology, minoring in data science from De La Salle University-Manila. His research interest is applied machine learning for medicine, parasitology, and ecology. Prior to joining DLSU as an undergraduate student, Alfonso is a humanities and social sciences graduate from Paco Catholic School, where he became more aware of the injustices and inequalities of the current society. As a commitment in helping the marginalized sector, he will use his knowledge to help people who are in need of medical attention. With the help of De La Salle University, Alfonso is now an advocate of the Lasallian Mission which is to contribute to meaningful social transformations. After taking his undergraduate degree in DLSU, he plans to take a master’s degree in social work and public health for his advancement in pursuing a career in medicine, where he will be specializing in infectious diseases; with his future role and expertise, Alfonso will be a great example of a service-driven professional.

Doctor and Bachelor of Education Sciences, Master’s Degree in Cognitive Psychology and Learning, and Professor of Chemistry. Former Academic Director of the Technical Teaching Institute (National Technological University), former Principal of Technical School 36 and the San José de la Palabra de Dios Institute in Buenos Aires. He is currently a professor in the Advanced Specialization in University Teaching program at the University of Buenos Aires, in the Master’s in Comparative Education program at the Catholic University of Valencia, designated Director of the Master’s in Management of Educational Organizations at the National University of the West, and Global Coordinator of the Scholas University Chairs Program of the Pontifical Scholas Occurrentes Foundation. He is the author of several books and has contributed to national and international journals specializing in education.

Coordinator of Higher Education at CLAYSS and the Uniservitate Programme. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Education, a certificate in Instructional Technology and Design (San Diego State University), and a Specialization and Master’s Degree in Educational Technology from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Member of CLAYSS since its foundation in 2002, she has served as Coordinator of the Volunteer Programme for Youth in Latin America and the Caribbean “PaSo Joven,” of the Distance Education Area and of the Solidarity Schools Support Programme. She has taught courses and workshops on service-learning for educational institutions and CSOs in Latin America and the Caribbean, the United States, Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya and South Africa. She is in charge of teacher training in Social Educational Practices at the Academic Affairs Office of the University of Buenos Aires and is a professor of Learning and Technology at the “Raúl Scalabrini Ortíz” National University of San Isidro. 

She is the Founder and Director of CLAYSS, the Latin American Center for Service-learning. Between 1997 and 2010, she initiated and coordinated the Solidarity Schools programmes of the Argentine Ministry of Education.

She is the author of numerous books and papers in several languages and has received several international and national awards.

She has been a founding member of the International Association of Researchers on Service-learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) and the Ibero-American Service-Learning Network.

In 2019, she was appointed as a member of the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship (ACES). She is currently head of the online diploma course on service-learning of CLAYSS, OEI and UNSO (Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz National University).

Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, was born in Funchal, on the island of Madeira, on 15 December 1965. He began his studies at the Portuguese Catholic University in the capital in 1986, where he obtained a degree in theology in 1989.

Ordained a priest for his native diocese on 28 July 1990, he enrolled at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome that same year, obtaining a licentiate in Biblical Sciences in 1992. In 2004, back at the UCP in Lisbon, he completed his training with a summa cum laude doctorate in Biblical Theology on a text from the Gospel of Luke (7:36-50: the scene of the encounter between Jesus and the sinful woman at the house of Simon the Pharisee), with Jesuit exegete Jean-Noël Aletti as his supervisor. Subsequently (2011-2012), he also conducted research at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice in New York.

He continued to live in Funchal for the first three years of his priestly ministry, teaching at the diocesan seminary and collaborating with the parish of Nossa Senhora do Livramento. In 1995, he moved to the capital of Portugal, serving as chaplain of the Catholic University for five years. In 2001, he was sent to Rome as rector of the Pontifical Portuguese College for two years, and after completing his doctorate, he became professor of New Testament and Theological Aesthetics at the Faculty of Theology of the UCP in Lisbon (2004-2018). Meanwhile, he edited the theological studies journal Didaskalia (2005-2012) and directed the University’s Centre for the Study of Religions and Cultures (2012-2017), and was rector of the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Bonança (2010-2018).

Appointed Consultant to the Pontifical Council for Culture in 2011, the following year he assumed the vice-rectorship of the UCP, also serving as a visiting professor in Brazil at the Catholic universities of Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro and at the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy and Theology in Belo Horizonte.

He has published numerous volumes and articles in the fields of theology and exegesis, as well as various works of poetry, drawing inspiration from literary and philosophical language. An expert on the relationship between literature and theology, in 2014 he represented Portugal on World Poetry Day and for many years has edited a weekly column entitled ‘What are clouds’ in the daily newspaper Expresso.

In 2018, Pope Francis chose him for the first time to preach the spiritual exercises for the Roman Curia in Ariccia from 18 to 23 February, on the theme ‘In Praise of Thirst’; and then, on 26 June, appointed him Archbishop and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church, elevating him at the same time to the titular see of Suava, with the dignity of Archbishop.

Having received episcopal ordination in Lisbon on 28 July 2018, from Cardinal Patriarch Manuel Clemente, he chose as his motto Considerate lilia agri, ‘Consider the lilies of the field,’ taken from the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:28).

Ewa Trzaskowska, dr hab., prof. KUL, graduate of natural philosophy, ecologist, landscape architect. She conducts research in the field of plant cover, phytosociology, planning and protection of open landscapes, green areas of cities, the natural and recreational systems and the introduction of the idea of sustainable development in the development of green areas of cities. A significant part of her interests are the residential green areas and their importance in shaping the proper environment for human life and habitats for animals with preservation of ecological functions. She uses service learning and other engaging didactic methods at her classes. She is the coordinator of the Service Learning method within the Center for Academic Didactics at KUL. She is the Head of the Department of Landscape Planning and Design at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (KUL).

Br. Michael M. Valenzuela FSC, PhD is a Brother of the Christian Schools and works as a consultant and part-time instructor at the De La Salle-College of St. Benilde, Manila, Philippines. His doctoral dissertation, “Apostles, Prophets, Ambassadors and Angels: De La Salle’s Meditations for the Time of Retreat and the Apostolic Imagination” (2004) uses a classic spiritual text to explore the role of imagination and narrative in faith and spirituality. He has served on two international commissions on Lasallian research , published articles on religious education and spirituality and is active in forming Lasallian mission partners in the Philippines.

Karen Venter heads the Service-Learning Division within the Directorate of Community Engagement, at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Having a MA in Higher Education Studies, with specialisation in the field of community engaged service-learning, she is responsible for the institutionalisation of engaged scholarship and glocal networking to advance higher education engagement. Karen has presented various national and international conference papers and workshops, co-published journal articles and book chapters. Through applying Appreciative Inquiry as strength-based action research methodology, her doctorate research focuses on using an integrated service-learning praxis approach to flourish professional learning and development of all partners in community-university research partnerships. This approach integrates the functions of teaching-learning, research, and community engagement, as well as theory and practice, across disciplines and societal sectors, to deliver the praxis of an engaged scholarship. 

Graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA). The majority of Mr. Vinciguerra’s studies have focused on addressing issues of religion, poverty and sustainable development – both in Christian and Interfaith contexts.

Mr. Vinciguerra served for 14 years at St. Thomas University (Miami, FL) as the coordinator of their Center for Community Engagement. The Center functions as the primary support unit for engaged scholarship at the university, integrating Catholic social thought across the curriculum while leveraging university teaching and research into both regional and international social concerns.

Mr. Vinciguerra is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Theology and Education at Boston College, with a focus on the intersection of theological ethics and engaged scholarship in Catholic higher education. While studying at BC, he serves as visiting scholar for the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, as well as director of the Archdiocese of Miami/Port-de-Paix, Haiti, Global Solidarity Partnership – a collaboration that leverages university teaching and research into long-term social and economic development projects in Miami’s sister-diocese of Port-de-Paix, Haiti.  

Yulia Vintoniv, PhD is a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the Ukrainian Catholic University.

She completed her studies at the Faculty of Journalism of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in 2011, after which she earned a Master’s degree in Ecumenical Studies (specialization in Christian Ethics) from the Institute of Ecumenical Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University. In 2016 she finished her doctoral studies in Theology at the same university, defending a dissertation entitled “Godforsakenness as a Philosophical and Theological Problem of the Mid-Twentieth Century (Based on the Texts of Albert Camus and C. S. Lewis).” In 2023 she completed a postdoctoral program at the University of Notre Dame (USA). She is also an Inklings Project Fellow (USA).

Since 2025 she has been a senior lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and 2020-2025, head of projects and programs at the Center for Teaching and Learning at the Ukrainian Catholic University. Between 2017 and 2024 she served as a lecturer at the Department of Pastoral Theology.

She has participated in numerous international conferences and academic seminars, including events at Warwick, Eichstätt, Bethlehem, Bratislava, Amsterdam, and Rome, and was a visiting scholar at the Protestant Theological University (Amsterdam) and Palacký University (Olomouc).

Her work explores the intersection of faith, culture, and education, focusing on community-engaged (service) learning, Godforsakenness and hope, and the theology of trauma. In 2022 she received the Uniservitate Global Award for her Service Learning project “Me – the Other.”

Dr. Vintoniv has co-authored publications such as “(Re)discovering Connection and Community” (Management Learning, 2025) and regularly contributes essays on culture and faith to Patriiarkhat and Zbruč.