From 1978 to 2012, Andrew Jay Schwartzman was senior vice president and policy director of the Media Access Project, a nonprofit, public-interest law firm that represented listeners’ and speakers’ interests before the FCC.  He is an attorney and consultant who specializes in media and telecommunications policy. He is now an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University. […]

James Steyer is the founder of Common Sense Media, a politically neutral San Francisco-based group that offers information to help parents make good choices for their families. Media contacts are Amber Whiteside and Crista Sumanik.

Jordan J. Ballor is a research fellow and executive editor at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Mich., which promotes “a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.”

Tony Perkins is president of the Family Research Council, which works to foster “a culture in which all human life is valued, families flourish, and religious liberty thrives.” He also leads the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, which tracks religious persecution around the world.

David Blankenhorn is president of the Institute for American Values. Founded in 1987, the group bills itself as a private, nonpartisan organization “devoted to contributing intellectually to the renewal of marriage and family life and the sources of competence, character and citizenship.”

Rabbi Yehuda Levin is founder of Jews for Morality, an Orthodox Jewish group based in Brooklyn, N.Y., that promotes family values.

Katherine G. Grincewich is associate general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Rosemary Chinnici, a disaster specialist, Roman Catholic nun and pastoral theologian, considered the psychological and theological aftermath of disasters in a talk she gave after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In every disaster, she says, after an initial “honeymoon” time of helping, sharing and altruism comes a period of disillusionment with aid efforts before rebuilding begins […]

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is the only museum in the Western Hemisphere with a gallery devoted to Sikh art. Contact the director of public relations.