Gary W. Fick is professor emeritus of agronomy at Cornell University and author of Food, Farming and Faith.

Joel Berg is author of All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? and is executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. His anti-hunger work includes experience with faith-based groups.

Mark Winne is a former director of the Hartford Food System. In 2001 he won the U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary’s Plow Honor Award. He is the author of the 2008 book Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty and is working on a new book to be published in 2010. Contact [email protected].

Imam Mohamed Magid is imam and executive director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in the Washington, D.C., area.

Max Finberg is former director of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He formerly headed the Alliance to End Hunger.

C. Smalley is president of Arizona Theological Seminary and Bible College. In the school’s academic philosophy, which Smalley wrote, the school bills itself as favoring “academy model” over the “university model” of education adopted by most seminaries. It has also forgone accreditation with non-Christian educational entities. Contact

David Buschart is a professor of theology and historical studies at Denver Seminary. He has written that the challenges facing seminaries reflect the social, economic and cultural shifts affecting all institutions.

The Rev. James McDonald is president of San Francisco Theological Seminary, the only Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) seminary in the western United States. SFTS announced in 2011 that it would close its Southern California campus, saving the school $450,000 per year.

Ann Jefferson is program coordinator for Theological Education for Leadership, a new distance learning program at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif.