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Andrew Sullivan was born in August 1963 in a small town in Southern England, South Godstone. He attended Reigate Grammar School, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took a First in Modern History and Modern Languages. He was also President of the Oxford Union in his Second Year at college, and spent his summer vacations as an actor in the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. In 1984, he won a Harkness Fellowship to Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and earned a Masters degree in Public Administration in 1986. In 1990, he returned to Washington, D.C., where he free-lanced for the *Telegraph* and started a monthly column for *Esquire*. He was soon back at *The New Republic* as deputy editor under Hendrik Hertzberg, and in June of 1991 was appointed acting editor, at the age of 27. In October, he took over as editor, and presided over 250 issues of *The New Republic*, resigning in May 1996. In those years, *The New Republic*'s circulation grew to well over 100,000 and its advertising revenues grew by 76 percent. Sullivan has appeared on over 100 radio shows across the United States, as well as on *Nightline*, *Face The Nation*, *Meet The Press*, *Crossfire*, *Hardball*, *The O'Reilly Factor*, *The Larry King Show*, *Reliable Sources*, *Hannity and Colmes*, and many others. He remains a senior editor at *the New Republic* and his book, *The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It; How To Get It Back*, was published by Harper Collins in the fall of 2006.

Alan Wolfe is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. He is the author and editor of more than 20 books, including, most recently, *The Future of Liberalism* (2009), *Does American Democracy Still Work?* (2006) *Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What it Needs to Do to Recover It *(2005), *The Transformation of American Religion: How We actually Live our Faith* (2003), and *An Intellectual in Public* (2003). He is the author or editor of more than ten other books including *Marginalized in the Middle* (1997), *One Nation, After All* (1998), *Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice* (2001) and *School Choice: The Moral Debate* (2002). Both *One Nation, After All* and *Moral Freedom* were selected as *New York Times* Notable Books of the Year. Professor Wolfe attended Temple University as an undergraduate and received his doctorate in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. Wolfe currently chairs a task force of the American Political Science Association on Religion and Democracy in the United States.

Alexander C. Sanger is the author of *Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century* published in January 2004 by PublicAffairs. Mr. Sanger, the grandson of Margaret Sanger, who founded the birth control movement over eighty years ago, is currently Chair of the International Planned Parenthood Council and has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund. He also operates a website and weblog www.AlexanderSanger.com with commentary on reproductive rights issues. Mr. Sanger previously served as the President of Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC) and its international arm, The Margaret Sanger Center International (MSCI) for ten years from 1991 - 2000. Shortly after assuming the Presidency of PPNYC, Mr. Sanger launched the Clinician Training Initiative, designed to address the disturbing fact that few doctors were trained or willing to perform abortions. Since its inception in 1993, the program has trained over 100 Ob-Gyn residents and has accomplished two major policy victories with lasting national impact.

Wasserman joined *the Globe* in 1985. He is syndicated in 40 papers in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe, and is the author of two books, *We've Been Framed* and *Paper Cuts* (1995). Wasserman has a BA from Swarthmore College and studied at The Arts Students League of New York.

Mike Peters is a cartoon artist. He draws the popular comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm, as well as syndicated editorial cartoons that appear in papers all over the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. His home paper is the Dayton Daily News in Dayton, Ohio.

Rev. Irene Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist, and Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail. Irene is currently a visiting researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformational Program at Boston University’s School of Theology. Her writings have also appeared in Boston Herald and in the Boston Globe. Her award-winning essay, Louis Farrakhan's Ministry of Misogyny and Homophobia, was greeted with critical acclaim. Listen to Monroe's podcast with Rev. Dr. Emmett G. Price, III. → [All Rev'd Up.](https://www.wgbh.org/podcast/all-revd-up)

Hayat Imam, a Muslim feminist, is an active member of Dorchester People for Peace and a long-time proponent of renewable energy. In the late 1970's, she participated with Clamshell Alliance in resisting the construction of the Seabrook nuclear power plant and she co-wrote a book called *Watermelons Not War!* Professionally, she has worked internationally on women's development projects with non-government organizations and as a consultant for the United Nations system. Hayat has a deep commitment to promoting the economic and political capacity of women so they can build sustainable change in their lives and the lives of their children. She worked for BRAC, an NGO in Bangladesh that has contributed profoundly to the education and poverty reduction of thousands of women and their families, and which now has affiliates in other South Asian countries, including Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. In the Philippines, Hayat was on the Board of ISIS International-Manila, founded to provide regional and global advocacy on gender issues in media and alternative communications, and to promote dialogues to enhance collaboration within the global women's movement. She is a former executive director of the Boston Women's Fund, which is committed to funding social change projects organized by women and girls, and was instrumental in developing and launching its 2000 Club that helped build an endowment through grassroots fundraising.

Peter I. Blute is a former American Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He served two terms, between January 3, 1993 and January 3, 1997, representing the Third District of Massachusetts. Blute was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, one of 11 siblings. He grew up and currently lives in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, where he attended St. John's High School. He earned his B.A. at Boston College in 1978. He was the owner of a sports promotion and marketing firm, and then a marketing representative for The Burdett School. Blute was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1986 and served until 1993 when he was elected as a Republican to the 103rd Congress and then reelected to the 104th Congress.