Amanda Morris is a community organiser and currently works for two UK-based non-profits, where she trains Muslim and other minority communities to challenge hateful media narratives. Amanda has an MA in Islam in Contemporary Britain from Cardiff University, an MA in Japanese Linguistics, and is a sessional tutor of Japanese at Cardiff University. In her spare time, she runs an organisation that supports new Muslims in South Wales and trains community members to act as mentors for converts to Islam.

Bilal Brown accepted Islam in 1999 and went to study Arabic in the Arab world in 2004. He returned to the UK in 2006 and left again in 2008 to study Islamic Sciences. He graduated from 4-year intensive accelerated course in Shari’ah studies at the Al-Dawli Institute of Arabic and Islamic Sciences in Damascus in 2012 in addition to studying privately with scholars in Damascus. He then went to Yemen to further his studies in Shafi’i jurisprudence, Arabic grammar and self-rectification. He returned to the UK in November 2014. He has years of experience working in the field of alcohol and drug addiction as well as several years of experience working with and teaching young people. He also has certificates in Childcare, IT, Social Science, and Counselling. He currently teaches Arabic and Islamic sciences in the northwest of England and online as well as conducting chaplaincy, translation, and community work. He is the winner of the 2023 BISCA Award for Education and Teaching.