John Garvey is president of the Catholic University of America. He was dean of Boston College Law school from 1999-2010 and is author or coauthor of many award-winning books. Garvey earned his J.D. in 1974 at Harvard Law School, where he served as treasurer of the Harvard Law Review. He received an A.B. in 1970 from the University of Notre Dame.

Lisa Sowle Cahill is an American ethicist, and J. Donald Monan Professor at the Boston College. She is known for her studies on gender and sexual ethics, but has extended her work to social and global ethics.