Dr Herbert Moyo is the Director of the Collaborative for HIV and AIDS, Religion and Theology (CHART) in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics. He is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church and has vast experience in working with vulnerable people, especially in communities in Zimbabwe. Dr Moyo completed his PhD at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on Church/State Relations in Zimbabwe. He is currently the Director of the Ministerial Studies Programme and Clinical Pastoral Education – (CPE). His research interests include Pastoral Care and Counselling from an African perspective, Church and State relations, Religion and Governance and the Church and Human Rights. and his most recent publication is Jesus is HIV positive: Listening with compassion to the HIV positive through Clinical Pastoral Counselling, published in 2011.

Professor Beverley Haddad is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa. She is the research and funding advisor for the Collaborative for HIV and AIDS Religion (CHART). She edited the CHART book, Religion and HIV and AIDS, Charting the Terrain (Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press, 2011), which won the 2011/2012 UKZN Book Prize. Prof. Haddad’s research interests include three areas of focus; HIV and AIDS, gender, and the role of the church in social transformation. She has published widely in these areas. An ordained priest in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, she is also a member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians and has co-edited one of the Circle publications, African Women, HIV/AIDS and Faith Communities (Pietermaritzburg: Cluster, 2003).

Philippe Denis is a professor of History of Christianity at the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Born in Liège, Belgium in 1952, he graduated with a PhD in History from the University of Liège in 1983. He lectures at the University of KwaZulu-Natal since 1993 and is visiting professor at the History Department of the University of Louvain since 2001. In 2006 he was elected associate member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. He has authored, co-authored or edited twenty-books and published more than one hundred peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His main areas of research are the history of the Reformation, the history of Christianity in southern Africa, the history of HIV and AIDS in Africa, oral history methodology and memory work. An important part of his time is dedicated to the Sinomlando Centre for Oral History and Memory Work in Africa, a research and community-based project he established in the mid 1990s at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Dr Beatrice Okyere-Manu is a Lecturer of Ethics studies in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is a member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. Her research interests cover the following areas: HIV and AIDS, Gender and Sexuality, Women’s social and Economic developmental issues from an ethical perspective. An important part of her time is dedicated to the Community Care Project: an HIV and AIDS project empowering families, the church and schools in and around Pietermaritzburg in issues around HIV and AIDS; a project she has been part of since 2002.

Prof Sue Rakoczy is an Honorary Professor of the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics of UKZN and on the staff of St Joseph’s Theological Institute, Cedara. Her teaching and research focus on the areas of spirituality, feminist theology, ecofeminism, and the interface of psychology and spirituality. Her current HIV/AIDS research focuses on Spiritual Direction and HIV/AIDS.

Dr Lilian Cheelo Siwila is a lecturer in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Kwazulu Natal in the field of Gender and Systematic theology. Dr Siwila has lectured in most of the clusters institutes in Pietermaritzburg. She has also worked with a number of ecumenical bodies in the field of gender based violence holding various offices such WCC member in the office of morla discernment in the church and the women’s desk, Church of Sweden where she coordinated a pilot programme in Gender religion and health and Ujamaa where she worked with Tamar campaign. Her research interests include Gender, HIV and Culture, Sexual and reproductive health and its interface with Theology.

Professor Gerald West teaches Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and African Biblical Heremeneutics in the School of Religion and Theology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is also Director of the Ujamaa Centre for Community Development and Research, a project in which socially engaged biblical scholars and ordinary African readers of the Bible from poor, working-class, and marginalized communities collaborate for social transformation. Among Gerald West's recent publications are The Academy of the Poor: Towards a Dialogical Reading of the Bible (Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications 2003) and an edited volume, together with Musa Dube, The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories and Trends (Leiden: Brill, 2000).

Bongi Zengele has a B.A. Degree in Social Work from Wits University, Johannesburg (1992) and an M.A. Degree in Theology and Development from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2007). She is at present Programmes Director for the UJamaa Centre and Coordinator of its Solidarity Programme for People Living with HIV and AIDS. She is also co-teacher of the Church and AIDS Course at the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her research interests include: Engaging with community-based initiatives geared at strengthening resilience in both adults and children living with HIV and AIDS.

Kelly Jacquire is the office manager and programme administrator for the Collaborative for HIV and AIDS, Religion and Theology (CHART) within the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics. She obtained a B Soc Sc from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and was appointed to the CHART office in 2011. Prior to this appointment she worked as a Provincial Programme Officer for the South African Council of Churches based in the KwaZulu-Natal Christian Council offices in Pietermaritzburg.