Prof. Dr. Aldo Skoda is a member of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles (Scalabrinians). After completing his studies in Philosophy and Theology with a Licentiate in Christian Anthropology, he graduated in Psychology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan and obtained a Doctorate in Pastoral Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. He is Professor of Pastoral Theology, Human Mobility and Interculural Theology at the Pontifical Urbanian University; Executive Director of SIMI, an institute specialising in interdisciplinary research and training on migration studies; Director for Europe and Africa of SIMN, an organisation that supports, promotes and coordinates the socio-pastoral action of the Scalabrinian Missionaries globally.

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Sarah Kilmer is the associate director for the International Studies (IS) Scholars program, for which she teaches several courses. Additionally, she runs IS’s Terp Community Mentors Refugee Education program. As a scholar, Kilmer’s research broadly examines equity, diversity and inclusion in the academic workplace, with an emphasis on how gender stereotypes and social roles can cause disrupting practices that limit career progression for women and BIPOC faculty. Kilmer completed her Ph.D. in Higher Education at the University of Maryland.

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Mélodie Honen-Delmar serves as the Global Director of Professional Programmes and Research Manager at Jesuit Worldwide Learning, an international NGO dedicated to providing Higher Education programs in marginalized contexts. She earned her Master’s degree in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in Education at the University of Geneva to research the learning journey of learners in emergencies and the transformative role of higher education in emergency contexts.  

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Catherine Gladwell is Refugee Education UK’s founder and Chief Executive. REUK works to equip refugee children and young people to access and thrive in education in the UK. Each year they work with several thousand young people through their own direct frontline education support and advice programmes, support several hundred schools, further education colleges and universities, conduct research and influence policy.  Alongside her work at REUK, she is a director and research advisor for Jigsaw Education, where she specialises in international refugee education. Catherine has led and consulted on large scale, multi-country refugee education research and programmes for international agencies including Unicef, UNHCR, Save the Children and many others. She is a regular speaker in the media and holds degrees from Oxford University and the University of London. She is a qualified teacher, an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Winchester and an Honorary Associate Professor of Refugee Education at the University of Nottingham.

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Professor Nick Gill is strategy group member of Universities of Sanctuary, a network of universities working to make Higher Education in the UK more accessible and welcoming to people affected by forced displacement. He is also a member of the UK Higher Education Humanitarian Working Group. Nick is a geographer whose work focuses on issues of justice and injustice, especially in the context of migration, border control, mobility and imprisonment. His books include “Inside Asylum Appeals, Access, Participation and Procedure in Europe” (co-authored, Routledge), “Asylum Determination in Europe Ethnographic Perspectives” (co-edited, Springer), “Nothing Personal? Geographies of Governing and activism in the British Asylum System” (Wiley-Blackwell) and “Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention” (co-edited, Ashgate). He is currently writing a book entitled “Universities After Refugees: Reckoning with Forced Migration in Higher Education”, with Professor Jennifer Bagelman, for McGill-Queens University Press.

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Karen Cordova is a Senior Instructional Designer with over a decade of experience leading training initiatives for government agencies, non-profits, universities, and UN-supported organizations. She specializes in designing and facilitating engaging learning experiences across multiple modalities—including asynchronous, remote synchronous, face-to-face, and hybrid formats. Her international work spans Central Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe, where she has developed curricula, facilitator guides, and multimedia learning tools tailored to local contexts. Her approach integrates adult learning theory, intercultural communication, and practical tools such as needs assessments, gap analyses, and Kirkpatrick’s evaluation framework. Karen has also served as an Affiliate Faculty member at Regis University for over 20 years, teaching courses in communication, research methods, and conflict resolution. She received special recognition for her contributions to online learning. Karen is passionate about advancing education as a human right, particularly in fragile and displaced contexts, and is excited to contribute that passion to RMEN’s mission of supporting refugee and migrant learners through connected, meaningful education.

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