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Deutsch began his professional life as a teacher. After two years he enrolled at Yale for a master's degree in teaching, he became a welfare-rights organizer, and earned a doctorate in behavioral sciences at Harvard's School of Public Health. In the 1970s he devised an alcohol-education program for teenagers that was nationally replicated, and in the 1980s he helped develop the first comprehensive secondary-school health curriculum found by the Centers for Disease Control to be effective in influencing students' knowledge, attitudes, and practices about health. That curriculum is currently in use in the Cambridge and Boston schools.

Jonathan Zimmerman is Professor of Education and History and Director of the History of Education Program, Steinhardt School of Education. He also holds an appointment in the Department of History of NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A former Peace Corps volunteer and high school teacher, Zimmerman is the author of *Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century *(2006), *Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools* (2002), and *Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America's Public Schools, 1880-1925* (1999). His academic articles have appeared in *the Journal of American History*, *the Teachers College Record*, and *History of Education Quarterly*. Zimmerman is also a frequent op-ed contributor to *the New York Times*, *the Washington Post*, *the New Republic*, and other popular newspapers and magazines.

Mark H. Moore is the Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations and Faculty Chair of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. He was the Founding Chairman of the Kennedy School's Committee on Executive Programs, and served in that role for over a decade. From 1979-2004, he was the Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and Management and Faculty Chairman of the Program Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Kennedy School. His research interests are public management and leadership, civil society and community mobilization, and criminal justice policy and management. His publications include Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government; Dangerous Offenders: The Elusive Targets of Justice; From Children to Citizens: The Mandate for Juvenile Justice; Beyond 911: A New Era for Policing; and Creating Public Value Through State Arts Agencies. Moore's work focuses on the ways in which leaders of public organizations can engage communities in supporting and legitimatizing their work and in the role that value commitments play in enabling leadership in public sector enterprises. Moore holds a B.A. from Yale University, and an M.P.P. and Ph.D. from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Cardinal Walter Kasper was born in Heidenheim-Brenz, Germany, in 1933 and was ordained in 1957. An accomplished theologian and author of many books and articles, Kasper studied at the University of Tobingen where he later became professor of dogmatic theology. He taught at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1983. In 1987 he was ordained bishop of Rottenberg-Stuttgart, Germany. Widely respected for his work in Christian ecumenical relations, Kasper was chosen in 1979 as one of a dozen Catholic theologians to sit on the World Council of Churches' Faith and Order Commission, one of the most comprehensive theological forums in Christianity. In 1994 he was named co-chairman of the Lutheran-Catholic Commission of Unity and five years later was appointed secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity in Rome. On May 3, 2001, Pope John Paul II named Kasper as its president, succeeding the retiring Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy. As president of the council, Kasper is also the president for the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. Under the leadership of Cardinal Kasper, the Council for Promoting Christian Unity has as its primary function guiding and serving the ecumenical activities of the Catholic Church and is also responsible for Catholic - Jewish relations. Among its numerous activities have been international theological dialogues with the Lutheran World Federation, the Anglican Communion, the World Methodist Council, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the Pentecostals, the Disciples of Christ, evangelicals, the Orthodox churches, the Baptist World Alliance, and various Jewish organizations, including the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultation (IJCIC).

Mona Abo-Zena, a former public school teacher and principal of the Islamic Academy of New England, is a doctoral student in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. Her primary research interests include religious and identity development, family and community contexts, and immigrant and other multicultural individuals and communities. In addition to her work as a research assistant on the John Templeton Foundation study of religion and positive youth development, Mona works on the Adoption & Development Project (ADP) at Tufts. The ADP project studies how children adopted from China understand aspects of adoption and their identity, and how their families address adoption and ethnicity as a family. Mona earned her BA in sociology from the University of Chicago and her EdM from Harvard University. She has over 10 years of teaching and administrative experience in public and Islamic schools, and serves on several boards that serve children and families.

John L. Esposito is University Professor, Professor of Religion and International Affairs, Professor of Islamic Studies and Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Esposito specializes in Islam, political Islam from North Africa to Southeast Asia, and Religion and International Affairs. He is editor-in-chief of the four-*volume The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World*, *The Oxford History of Islam*, *The Oxford Dictionary of Islam* and *The Islamic World: Past and Present*. His more than thirty five books include *Who Speaks for Islam*, *Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam*, and *The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?*. Many have been translated into Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Bahasa Indonesia, Urdu, European languages, Japanese and Chinese. A former president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies, he is currently a member of the World Economic Forum

Kim Westheimer is a diversity consultant, educator, and writer. She conducts workshops and designs written materials related to organizational diversity and strategic planning. Kim is the coauthor of *When the Drama Club is Not Enough: Lessons from the Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students*. Her work has also been published by Phi Delta Kappan, The American Psychological Association, and the Center for the Study of Social Policy. She formerly directed The Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students at the Massachusetts Department of Education. Organizations which have hired Kim to address their membership include the California Association of School Health Educators, The National Institute for Teaching excellence, The Centers for Disease Control Division of Adolescent School Health, congregation Agudat Achim, Casey Family Services, and Harvard University's Askwith forum. Kim received her master's degree in Urban Policy from Tufts University and her bachelor's degree from Cornel University. She has taught undergraduates at Harvard University and graduate students at Framingham State University. She has received numerous awards including a Health and Human Services research grant; a Harvard University Certificate of distinction in Teaching; and an honor award for service from the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network.