Hussein Rashid and Murali Balaji

Hussein Rashid is a native New Yorker and proud Muslim. Currently an instructor at the Center for Spiritual Inquiry at Park Avenue Christian Church and based at Barnard College, he is deeply committed to interfaith work and is passionate about teaching. He believes we need to start talking more intelligently about Islam specifically, and religion generally. Murali Balaji is the Director of Education and Curriculum Reform for the Hindu American Foundation. A Fulbright Specialist and former journalist, he has taught at Temple University, Penn State University, and Lincoln University, where he served as Chair of the Department of Mass Communications. Balaji is the author of several books, including The Professor and the Pupil: The Politics and Friendship of WEB Du Bois and Paul Robeson (2007); the editor of Thinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse Means (2013); and the co-editor of the seminal anthologies Desi Rap (2008) and Global Masculinities and Manhood (2011).