Roger Haydon Mitchell is an honorary research fellow and partnerships coordinator for the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies in the Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Department at Lancaster University. He has worked as an international consultant to the church for forty years and currently co-directs 2MT, a charity offering help negotiating change at www.2mt.org.uk. He and his wife Sue have two sons and four grandchildren.

Julie Tomlin Arram is a journalist living in London. Her work, which focuses on women's activism, has been published in The Guardian, New Statesman, and Huffington Post. She is director of Words of Colour and a co-founder of Digital Women UK, managing and writing for its website with a particular focus on digital feminism.