Nicolette Manglos-Weber is Associate Professor of Religion and Society and Director, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Boston University's School of Theology. She is the author of Joining the Choir: Religious Membership and Social Trust among Transnational Ghanaians (Oxford, 2018).

Josephine Nabakooza, the author's research assistant should be credited on the byline, currently stylized as "with Josephine Nabakooza" in the manuscript.