Roblyn Honeysucker coordinates the Baton Rouge Homeschool Association, which is listed along with other Louisiana homeschool organizations posted by Practical Homeschooling Magazine. The BRHA describes itself as “a secular and inclusive homeschool support group serving the Baton Rouge, LA area and surrounding parishes.”

The Rev. Edward C. Vacek holds the Stephen J. Duffy Chair in Catholic Studies at Loyola University New Orleans. He wrote Love, Human and Divine. He has written about gratitude and love.

Ruby Bridges Hall founded the Ruby Bridges Foundation in 1999 out of her experience in 1960 as the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school. The foundation, based in New Orleans, promotes tolerance, respect and acceptance of differences. She is also co-chair of A Campaign for Forgiveness Research.

William P. Quigley is a law professor and director of the Law Clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans. He is the author of Ending Poverty as We Know It: Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage.

Luceia LeDoux is program director of public safety and governmental oversight grants for the Baptist Community Ministries of New Orleans. She oversees this Christian nonprofit’s community grants that benefit young offenders and at-risk youths in the New Orleans area.

June 30, 2013, in-depth Mashable article about the debate over teaching creationism and intelligent design in public schools with a focus on Louisiana.

Paula Arai is an associate professor of Asian religions and a specialist in Buddhist studies at Louisiana State University.

Peter A. Huff is chairman of the department of religious studies at Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport. Huff teaches courses on global fundamentalism and is the author of What Are They Saying About Fundamentalisms? (Paulist Press, 2008).

Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin is the 18th Surgeon General of the United States.