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Paul Karasik is the co-author (along with David Mazzucchelli) of the perennial graphic novel classic *City of Glass*, adapted from Paul Auster's novel, as well as *How to Read Nancy* (with Mark Newgarden). He is also the editor of *You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation!* and *I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!*, two acclaimed books about the Golden Age comic book artist Fletcher Hanks.

Jack Szostak is the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine for showing how chromosomes are safely copied and protected against degradation. Szostak currently studies the origin and early evolution of life through efforts to design and synthesize a self-replicating protocell capable of Darwinian evolution. Szostak is a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, an Investigator at both Massachusetts General Hospital and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Dash Shaw grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and studied at the School of Visual Arts. A prolific cartoonist and animator, he is the author of the 2008 graphic novel Bottomless Belly Button. He lives in Brooklyn.

Dan McKanan joined the Harvard Divinity School faculty in July 2008 as Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity. Before coming to Harvard, he served as department chair and associate professor of theology at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University, where he began teaching in 1998. He studies religious movements for social transformation in the United States from the abolitionist era to the present. His first book, *Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States* (2002), explores theological understandings of violence and nonviolence among abolitionists, pacifists, and temperance activists. *Touching the World: Christian Communities Transforming Society* (2007) and *The Catholic Worker After Dorothy: Practicing the Works of Mercy in a New Generation* (2008) deal with the Camphill and Catholic Worker networks of intentional communities. McKanan's current book project, tentatively entitled "Prophetic Encounters," is a general history of the religious left in the United States. Image courtesy of Harvard Divinity School photographs.

Emily Click, an ordained United Church of Christ minister, brings a decade of pastoral leadership experience to her work as assistant dean for ministry studies and Lecturer on Ministry at Harvard Divinity School. She teaches courses on leadership, mentoring, religious education, and the histories, theologies, and practices of Christianity. She is the immediate past chairperson of the Association for Theological Field Education, and currently directs Harvard Divinity School's field education program. Her doctoral work, completed at the Claremont School of Theology, focused on forming religious leaders through theological field education. Image courtesy of Harvard Divinity School photographs.

The Rev. Scott Campbell is the pastor of the Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church. He is the denominational counselor to United Methodist students at Harvard Divinity School, where he also offers instruction in polity, meaning making, and preaching. He writes a regular column for *The Progressive Christian* that has twice been recognized for excellence by the Associated Church Press.

The Rev. Galen Guengerich is senior minister of All Souls Unitarian Church in New York City. He was educated at Franklin and Marshall College (BA '82), Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv '85), and the University of Chicago (PhD '04). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves as chair of the Board of Directors of the Interfaith Alliance Foundation, the national nonpartisan education and advocacy voice for faith and freedom. In addition, he serves on the Advisory Board of Musica Viva of New York, one of Manhattan’s leading chorale ensembles.

Julia Sierra Wilkinson is a second-year master of divinity student and serves as the coordinator for Life Together, the Student Association at Harvard Divinity School. She received her undergraduate degree from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, with a double major in religion/social justice and Africana studies. A Fund for Theological Education (FTE) fellow, she is pursuing ordination in the Episcopal Church. Her passions include African Anglicanism and parish ministry.

Molly Housh is a third-year master of divinity student at Harvard Divinity School and holds a BA in religion from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. She spent two years working as an intern in the growth services area of the Unitarian Universalist Association and currently serves as the intern minister at the First Parish in Needham, Massachusetts. Housh is a candidate for ordination as a Unitarian Universalist minister and is passionate about issues of liberal theology and congregational culture.

Andy Danylchuk, PhD, is an assistant professor of fish conservation at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Erik Resly is currently pursuing a master of divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School, in preparation for ordained parish ministry in the Unitarian Universalist tradition. He grew up overseas and was confirmed in the Unitarische Freie Religionsgemeinde in Frankfurt, Germany, before returning to the United States to graduate magna cum laude from Brown University. When he's not frantically attempting to live up to graduate school expectations, Resly spends his time figure-drawing, playing bass guitar, campaigning for universal health care, and worshiping at the First Parish in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and the Sikh Sangat Society Boston.

Vince Razionale is the manager of Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge, MA.