Salma Abugideiri is advisory board member and director of training of the Peaceful Families Project and a licensed professional counselor in private practice in Sterling, Virginia. She is the co-author of What Islam Says About Domestic Violence: A Guide for Helping Muslim Families.

Carol Goodman Kaufman is a psychologist and author of Sins of Omission: The Jewish Community’s Reaction to Domestic Violence. She was the founding chair of the Domestic Violence Task Force for the Jewish Community of Central Mass. She is based at the Haddassah Institute at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Rachel Lev is the author of Shine the Light: Sexual Abuse and Healing in the Jewish Community (Northeastern University Press, 2002).

Carol Topp, author of Homeschool Co-ops: How to Start Them, Run Them and Not Burn Out (2008), blogs about the issues of running a co-op and offers workshops and other resources to parents interested in homeschooling children. Topp is a CPA who works out of her home office in Cincinnati.

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.”

Kathleen V. Hoover-Dempsey is an associate professor of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She  is co-author (with Christa L. Green) of  the 2007 study “Why Do Parents Homeschool? A Systematic Examination of Parental Involvement.”

Dayna Martin is the author of Radical Unschooling: A Revolution Has Begun (2009). She is the public face for UnschoolingAmerica.com, which is based in Madison, N.H.

Ann Zeise runs A to Z Home’s Cool, a large resource site for homeschoolers that is based in Milpitas, Calif.

Brian D. Ray is founder and president of the nonprofit National Home Education Research Institute in Salem, Ore.