Karen Lebacqz & Matthew J. Gaudet

Karen Lebacqz is professor emerita of the Pacific School of Religion, and former core doctoral faculty of the Graduate Theological Union. Karen's lifelong commitment to issues of social justice has taken shape in three primary areas: professional ethics, bioethics, and ethical theory. Her publications include more than six books, among them Six Theories of Justice, Justice in an Unjust World, Sex in the Parish, and Ethics and Spiritual Care. Her dozens of essays in bioethics, feminist ethics, and sexual ethics have been published in scientific journals, church magazines, and international contexts. In 2019 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Christian Ethics.

Matthew J. Gaudet is the director of ethics programs for the School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. Gaudet's research lies at the intersection of ethics with the social sciences, especially the application of ethics to the topics of war, the university, disability, and technology. He was a lead author of Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations and a coeditor of three issues of the Journal of Moral Theology (on Artificial Intelligence, University Ethics, and Contingent Faculty).