The Doyle Engaging Difference Program - Georgetown University

Randall (Randy) Bass is the vice president for strategic education initiatives and professor of English at Georgetown University. He previously served as vice provost for education and founding executive director of Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship; he also taught a class supported through the Berkley Center's Doyle Seminars project. He holds a Ph.D. from Brown University.

Ryann Craig is special assistant to the vice president for mission and ministry and director of academic initiatives in Georgetown University's Office of Mission and Ministry. From October 2019 through December 2023 she was the director of student programs and an assistant research professor at the Berkley Center, as well as a faculty fellow at the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University. Before joining the Berkley Center, she worked in academic support and student advising as assistant director of academic support at the Catholic University of America. She recently served as a copy editor for the International Qurʾānic Studies Association’s journal and monograph series (2016-2018) and has been involved in a number of religious minority cultural heritage preservation initiatives in the United States, Germany, and Israel/Palestine. Craig completed her Ph.D. (Catholic University of America) on the use of Quranic proof texts by medieval Christian Arabic and Syriac authors while in residence as a doctoral fellow at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. She is co-editor with Vasile-Octavian Mihoc of A Contested Coexistence: Insights in Arabic Christianity from Theology to Migration (Harrassowitz, 2020).

Derek Goldman is artistic director of the Davis Performing Arts Center and professor of theater and performance studies in the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown University. With Cynthia Schneider he is co-founding director of Georgetown's Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics. He previously taught a class supported through the Berkley Center's Doyle Seminars project. Goldman is also founding artistic director of the StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance and has directed Off-Broadway, internationally, and in leading regional theaters. He is the author of more than 30 professionally produced plays and adaptations, and he has directed over 80 productions; his publications have appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Cultural Studies, Sage Handbook of Performance Studies, American Theatre, Howlround, and elsewhere. He received the National Communication Association's prestigious Outstanding Dissertation Award for his work The Politics and Poetics of Adaptation: Leon Forrest’s Divine Days. Goldman previously taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He holds a B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.

Huaping Lu-Adler is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University.  As a scholar, she specializes in modern Western philosophy. Among other things, she is writing a book and a series of articles on race and racism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is also interested in theories of reason/rationality, especially the ways in which classical rationalism seems to fail badly. As a teacher, she is constantly in search of more effective pedagogical designs. She believes in student-centered, problem-based, and experientially grounded approaches.

Ijeoma Njaka serves as the senior project associate for equity-centered design at the Red House and the inclusive pedagogy specialist for the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University. She specializes in inclusive pedagogy and anti-bias education for student, faculty, and staff audiences with a particular emphasis in arts-based practices.

Michelle Ohnona is the faculty director and assistant professor of the practice for the B.A. in Liberal Studies at Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies. Before joining the School of Continuing Studies, she worked at Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship as Assistant Director for Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives. A passionate educator, Dr. Ohnona is motivated by the capacity of education to transform lives and foster a more just world. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on gender, sexuality, postcolonialism, visual culture, and learning design. She holds a PhD from the University of London, Goldsmiths College, in media, communications, and cultural Studies, and an M.A. in media studies from Concordia University (Canada).

Ann Oldenburg is assistant director and lecturer in the Journalism Program at Georgetown University. She began her career at the Washington Post and went on to spend more than two decades with USA Today covering pop culture topics. After earning an M.S. in aging and health program from Georgetown, she is expanding her teaching topics to include a new course on Aging and Ageism for the Medical Humanities Initiative, along with her new Media and Social Justice course.

Jennifer Rosales is the vice president for inclusion and engaged learning and the chief diversity officer at Barnard College, where she is also the inaugural executive director of the Center for Engaged Pedagogy (CEP). She provides academic leadership and vision for teaching and learning at the CEP and Barnard College, guiding and expanding the college's commitment to inclusive and engaged pedagogy. Previously she was the director of research and evaluation at the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University.