William F. Fisher is director of the Program for International Development, Community and Environment at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. He is an expert in global civil society and transnational advocacy.

Simon Blackburn is a Distinguished Research Professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. He is a humanist philosopher and the vice president of the British Humanist Association.

Helen Beebee is a humanist philosopher and the Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester.

The Center for Interfaith Action targets global poverty and describes its work as “operating at the intersection of faith and development.” Its initiatives include the Women, Faith and Development Alliance. CIFA also has its own new gender program. Contact Margaux Bergen, director of communications and development.

Katherine Marshall is executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue and senior fellow and visiting professor at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, leading the Program on Religion and Global Development. She is an expert on international development issues and advises the World Bank, where she once worked.

Jean Duff is executive director of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty. CIFA was one of four co-convening agencies that brought faith, women’s and foreign development groups together in 2008 to work in the Women, Faith and Development Alliance for women and girls. The 2008 gathering was the occasion to announce $1.4 billion in commitments […]

Mayra Buvinic is sector director for gender and development at the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network of the World Bank. She was a founding member and president of the International Center for Research on Women. Contact her through the bank’s media division in Washington, D.C.

Matthew Stanford is CEO of the Hope and Healing Center and Institute in Houston and an expert on mental illness and the church. He is the author of Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness. He has studied how seminaries prepare students to address mental illness within faith communities.

Nancy Kehoe is a psychologist and a Catholic nun in Belmont, Mass. She is the author of Wrestling With Our Inner Angels: Faith, Mental Illness and the Journey to Wholeness.