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Jim Wallis is a bestselling author, public theologian, speaker, preacher, and international commentator on religion and public life, faith and politics. His latest book is *The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith & Politics in a Post Religious Right America* (2008). His previous book, *God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It *(2005), was on *the New York Times* bestseller list for 4 months. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of Sojourners; where he is editor-in-chief of *Sojourners* magazine, whose combined print and electronic media have a readership of more than 250,000 people. Wallis speaks at more than 200 events a year and his columns appear in major newspapers, including *The New York Times*, *Washington Post*, *Los Angeles Times*, and both *Time* and *Newsweek* online. He regularly appears on radio and television, including shows like *Meet the Press*, *the Daily Show with Jon Stewart*, the *O'Reilly Factor*, and is a frequent guest on the news programs of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and National Public Radio. He has taught at Harvard's Divinity School and Kennedy School of Government on "Faith, Politics, and Society." He has written eight books, including: *Faith Works*, *The Soul of Politics*, *Who Speaks for God?*, and *The Call to Conversion*.

Ardath Harter Rodale, chairman of the board of Rodale, Inc., is the author of *Climbing Toward the Light* (1989) and *Gifts of the Spirit *(1997). Ardie also writes "Reflections," a monthly column for Rodale's *Prevention* magazine, the world's largest-circulation health magazine. Chosen as one of the top 50 women business owners in the United States by *Working Woman* magazine and one of the 50 leading women entrepreneurs in the world by The Star Group, Ardie is the mother of five children and the grandmother of ten. She lives in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, on her family's organic farm.

Krogh was a White House Deputy for Domestic Affairs from 1970 to 1972. President Nixon gave Krogh the task of trying to lower crime in Washington DC, which led him to support the idea that treating heroin addicts with methadone could potentially lower crime rates.

Dallas Hudgens is the author of the novels Drive Like Hell (Scribner, 2005), and Season of Gene (Scribner, 2007). He has appeared at the Omaha Lit Fest, Virginia Festival of the Book, Georgia Center for the Book and venues around the country. Hudgen's writing has been published in FANZINE, Five Chapters and The Washington Post.

Lara Santoro is most recently the author of *Mercy*, a novel. She spent most of her career as a foreign news correspondent, based primarily in Rome and in Nairobi working for *Newsweek* and *The Christian Science Monitor*. Her work has also appeared in* the Wall Street Journal*, *The New Republic*, *The Boston Globe*, *The London Telegraph*, *The Times of London* and *The Sunday Times*. She holds a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature from Smith College, a Master's degree in French Literature from the Sorbonne, and a Master's in Fine Arts from New York University, where she was the recipient of the Developmental Fellowship, a biannual award. She was born in Rome, and currently lives in New Mexico.

Being born and raised into a working-class family in Youngstown, Ohio, and witness to the steel era decline in the seventies and eighties encouraged Kenneth J. Bindas to study the negotiation of power between government, business and the people. Using culture (political, social, and popular) as the lens to view primarily the Depression era, his research and teaching has focused on how the people redefined themselves, their government, and business in this era of swirling change. Bindas' current research intersects the construction of memory and society: on one hand he is working on Oral history methodology and its role in the construction of history (both personal and social); and on the other, researching the multivariate means by which modernity became not just a term to help define the Depression era, but signaled a change of consciousness, a secular reformation.

Kaffie McCullough received her masters degree in Community Counseling in 1986 and launched a successful 10-year career as a licensed professional counselor, focusing her work on female clients and issues of self-esteem. Through her experience in her own private therapy practice, in which she saw a number of middle school age clients, McCullough identified that age as the pivotal time when the decline in self-esteem begins. Drawing on experience gained volunteering in a week-long outdoor leadership camp for young girls at Wells, Kaffie McCullough founded the not-for-profit organization, Girls Opportunities for Adventure and Leadership (GOAL). Started as a week-long summer camp, GOAL now offers a number of programs primarily for girls in grades 6 through 9. The mission of GOAL is to promote self-esteem, self-awareness and a respect for individual differences in girls and young women, resulting in an enhanced capacity for leadership. Along with her entrepreneurial successes, McCullough serves the Atlanta community as a speaker, resource, and advisor for other groups working on programs for girls and young women. Over the last year, she has worked to develop a consortium of nonprofit consultants to support new groups and organizations that are preparing to move to the next stage of their development. She is now working with the Juvenile Justice Fund, overseeing a program aimed at combating the criminal sexual exploitation of children.

Paul Howard is Fulton County District Attorney and is currently serving his third term. He is the first African-American to be elected district attorney in the history of the State of Georgia. Prior to being elected district attorney in 1996, Howard served as Fulton County's Solicitor General for four years. A cum laude graduate of Morehouse College in political science, Howard received the school's Marvin C. Magnum Legal Achievement Award. His exemplary undergraduate performance also earned him an academic scholarship at Emory University's School of Law. While doing graduate work at Emory, Howard became the president of the Black American Law Students Association and later the vice president of the Student Bar Association.

Frye Gaillard, writer in residence at the University of South Alabama, has written extensively on southern race relations, politics and culture. He is former Southern Editor at The Charlotte Observer, where he covered Charlotte’s landmark school desegregation controversy, the ill-fated ministry of televangelist Jim Bakker, the funeral of Elvis Presley, and the presidency of Jimmy Carter.