5 Steps to Healing Polarization in the Classroom: 5 Steps to

Amy Uelmen is a Lecturer at Georgetown Law School and a Research Fellow with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. She teaches seminars that help students to explore how religious values and perspectives might intersect with professional identity, ethics, and theories of justice. From 2001 until July 2011 she served as the founding Director of the Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer's Work at Fordham University School of Law. Throughout her career, she has been active with programs that aim to build bridges between people of different faiths. Her B.A. in American Studies, J.D. and S.J.D. are from Georgetown, and she hold an M.A. in Theology from Fordham.

Michael Kessler is managing director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, an associate professor of the practice of moral and political theory in the Department of Government, and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law School. His research and writing focus on theology, philosophical and religious ethics, and social, political, and legal theory. Co-edited volumes include the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Political Theology. Kessler received his Ph.D. focusing on religion and moral and political theory from the University of Chicago, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. His B.A. in theology and philosophy are from Valparaiso University.