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Richard P. McBrien is a Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Educated at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he has also served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. A leading authority on Catholicism, McBrien is the bestselling author of *Catholicism*, *Lives of the Popes*, and *Lives of the Saints*, as well as the general editor of *The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism*. Most recently a consultant for ABC News, McBrien offers regular commentary on all the major television networks. He is also a prize-winning syndicated columnist in the Catholic press.

Franz Wright's *Walking to Martha's Vineyard* received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. His newest collection is *God's Silence* (2006). He is currently the visiting poet-in-residence at Brandeis University.

James P. Breeden was born October 14, 1934, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and graduated from Dartmouth in 1956. He attended Union Theological Seminary in New York and was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1960. He received his doctorate from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1972. Dean Breeden's career has spanned civil rights activism, education, and the ministry; this collection of his papers places heavy emphasis on his activities in two of these areas, civil rights and education. He was appointed Dean of the Tucker Foundation in 1984. James Breeden's interest in civil rights activism began in 1961, when he was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi while seeking restaurant service in a local bus terminal. He has worked with several civil rights organizations, including the Episcopal Society for Racial and Cultural Unity (ESCRU) to fight racial discrimination within the Episcopal Church. Breeden's role as Executive Director of the Citywide Coordinating Council in Boston brought him into the heart of the turbulent struggle over desegregation of the public schools in that city. Since coming to the College, Dean Breeden has been active and outspoken in the anti-apartheid movement on the campus and in the nation.

Dr. Kenneth Guscott is one of the leading minority business entrepreneurs and community activists in Boston. The former head of the Boston NAACP during the civil rights movement, he is responsible for designing and developing their Positive Program for Boston, a human resources initiative providing employment opportunities and a summer management internship program in Greater Boston industries. In his latest venture, Guscott has worked for 15 years on One Lincoln Street. This 36-story structure in Boston's financial District will be the largest office building in America financed and planned by minority groups. Guscott is also the founder and general partner of the Long Bay Management Company, a real estate development firm that owns and manages 1100 multi-family housing units, commercial, retail and office space.