The Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast in Belfast, Maine, has worked with victims and offenders to seek apologies for victims and to help criminals turn their lives around.

Khalilah Brown-Dean is assistant professor of political science and African-American studies at Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Marla Frederick is a leading ethnographer and scholar focused on the African American religious experience. She is dean of Harvard Divinity School, Boston. Her expertise includes the African-American religious experience. She is the author or co-author of four books, including Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global and Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of […]

Alton B. Pollard III directs the Program of Black Church Studies at Emory University, Atlanta, where he is an associate professor of religion and culture. He co-edited How Long This Road: Race, Religion and the Legacy of C. Eric Lincoln (Palgrave MacMillan, 2003).

Chris Rice co-directs the Center for Reconciliation at Duke University. He wrote Grace Matters: A True Story of Race, Friendship and Faith in the Heart of the South (Jossey-Bass, 2002) and co-authored More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel (InterVarsity Press, 1993).

Eric McDaniel is associate professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. He researches religion and politics, including Black religious organizations’ political involvement and what effect they have on Black political activity.

Eric L. Goldstein is an associate professor of history and of Jewish studies at Emory University, Atlanta, and edits the quarterly journal American Jewish History. He wrote The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race and American Identity (Princeton University Press, 2006).

Gerardo Martí is a sociology professor at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina. He teaches about race and ethnic relations and is the author of A Mosaic of Believers: Diversity and Innovation in a Multiethnic Church. Martí is researching whether worship music matters for making congregations racially and ethnically diverse.

Korie Little Edwards is an associate professor of sociology at The Ohio State University. She researches interracial churches and African American churches and is the author of The Elusive Dream: The Power of Race in Interracial Churches.