JASON SEXTON is a native northern Californian and Convener of TECC: The California Project. He holds the PhD from The University of St. Andrews, specializing in the intersection of theology and culture.  He has done postdoctoral work on public theology and taught theology in Cambridge as a Visiting Scholar at Ridley Hall. He's been a visiting scholar at UC Riverside's Center for Ideas & Society, and is currently Lecturer in the Honors Program and Faculty coordinator of General Education at California State University, Fullerton. He's published widely in contemporary evangelical theology and is author of The Trinitarian Theology of Stanley J. Grenz (T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2013). He co-edited TECC's first volume, Theology and California: Theological Refractions on California's Culture (Routledge, 2014), and has published in more popular media, including Los Angeles Review of Books, BOOM: A Journal of California, and Zocalo Public Square. He is working on several books on evangelical theology and the prison, the latter for which he is developing an interdisciplinary account of the incarcerated church, which project was recently profiled in the Orange County Register. 

FRED SANDERS is Professor of Theology in Biola University's great books program, the Torrey Honors Institute, and is a Faculty member for the Los Angeles Bible Training School. An evangelical Protestant theologian, he holds a Bachelor's degree in Art from Murray State University, an MDiv from Asbury Theological Seminary (Kentucky), and upon moving back to California earned a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley). He has published one academic monograph, The Image of the Immanent Trinity: Rahner's Rule and the Theological Interpretation of Scripture (Peter Lang, 2005), a popular volume engaging trinitarian theology The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything (Crossway, 2010), and Wesley on the Christian Life: The Heart Renewed in Love (Crossway, 2013). He is author of the essay on the Trinity in the Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology, and is nearing completion of a volume on the doctrine of the Trinity in Zondervan's New Studies in Dogmatics series. He is co-founder of the Los Angeles Theology Conference and is also a popular blogger at Scriptorium Daily.

RUSSELL JEUNG is Professor of Asian-American Studies in the College of Ethic Studies in San Francisco State University. He received the BA (Human Biology) and MA (Education) from Stanford, and the PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley. He is the author of Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity and Religion Among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (New York University Press, 2012) and Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches (Rutgers University Press, 2004). With Valerie Soe he co-produced the documentary, The Oak Park Story (2010), about a landmark housing lawsuit involving his fellow Cambodian and Latino tenants. Much of his work focuses on social and religious features of immigrant identity, and he has received a number of awards and grants for his work. His spiritual memoir, developed out of University of Virginia's Project on Lived Theology will be published by Zondervan in 2016, titled At Home in Exile: Meeting Jesus Among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors, exploring his Hakka Chinese American background, and experiences in East Oakland the last two decades.

JOY J. MOORE is Assistant Professor of Preaching at Fuller Theological Seminary. She holds the BA from National-Louis University, the MDiv from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, and the PhD from London School of Theology (Brunel University) in practical theology. An ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, Moore’s research interests focus on critical issues influencing contemporary culture for community formation. A frequently featured preacher, Bible study leader, and teacher, she is currently conducting research on the impact of various media forms on how we assimilate information and what it does to our religious imagination. She has authored, “Preaching: Telling the Story in a Sound-bite Culture,” in Generation Rising: A Future with Hope for the United Methodist Church (Abingdon, 2011), which calls for preaching that takes seriously the story of scripture over moralisms often imposes on its stories. And she is the author of Text Messaging: Ancient Stories for a Cyberspace Future (forthcoming, Bristol Books). She serves on the board of ZOE Ministries, an empowerment program committed to transforming lives of orphaned African children, and is John Wesley Fellow from A Foundation for Theological Education, Dr. Moore has published in major news columns (NY Times) and co-chairs the Evangelical Studies Group at the American Academy of Religion.

Robert Chao-Romero is Associate Professor in UCLA's Chican@ Studies Department. He holds the BA from UCLA, the JD from UC Berkeley, and the PhD in Latin American History from UCLA. His research examines Asian immigration to Latin America, as well as the large population of “Asian-Latinos” in the US. His first book, The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 (University of Arizona Press, 2010), tells the forgotten history of the Chinese community in Mexico; this book received the Latina/o Studies Section Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association.  He also contributed the essay "Transnational Commercial Orbits" to A Companion to California History, edited by William Deverell and David Igler (Wiley-Blackwell). From his scholarly, academic, and social-justice interests, Chao Romero practices law as an immigration attorney, and examines the legal history of Chican@/Latin@ segregation as well as immigration law and policy. His most recent research explores the role of spirituality in Chicana/o social activism and is being developed in a project he calls "Brown Theology."

RICHARD FLORY is the Director of USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture and Associate Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. He holds the PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago, and his primary research and teaching interests are in the intersection of religion, culture and urban life. With Brad Christerson and Korie L. Edwards, he is the author of Growing up in America: The Power of Race in the Lives of Teens (Stanford University Press, 2010), and with Donald E. Miller he is the author of Finding Faith: The Spiritual Quest of the Post-Boomer Generation (Rutgers University Press, 2008) and editor of GenX Religion (Routledge 2000) and Spirit and Power: The Growth and Global Impact of Pentecostalism (OUP, 2013). His current research is focused on several projects that investigate the role of religion and religious institutions in the civic life of Los Angeles. These include an investigation of the role of faith-based organizing in Los Angeles since the 1992 riots, an ethnographic study of the “Dream Center,” a large-scale Pentecostal ministry in Los Angeles that includes one church and dozens of social outreach programs in the city, and a project investigating the current landscape of Pentecostalism in Los Angeles. His research has been supported by grants from the University of Southern California, the Louisville Institute, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Lilly Endowment, the Haynes Foundation, and the John Templeton Foundation, and he contributes regularly to the CRCC blog, "The Wire."