Read a May 18, 2007, Time magazine article about Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s role in the Abu Ghraib story.

Read an Aug. 28, 2007, Associated Press story about an Army officer acquitted of failing to control U.S. soldiers who abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq.

Diane Nilan of Naperville, Ill., is a former shelter director who founded the nonprofit group Hear Us, to allow the voices of homeless children and youth to be heard. In 2005, Nilan sold her home and set off across the country to interview more than 70 homeless children and teenagers in 16 states, mostly in […]

JoCo IHN (formerly Johnson County Interfaith Hospitality Network) is a nonprofit coalition of congregations in Johnson County, Kansas, that provides services to homeless families.

The West Coast Poverty Center is based at the University of Washington. Jennifer Romich is director as well as professor of social work and public affairs.

Russell Powell is associate professor of law at Seattle University. His expertise includes comparative religious jurisprudence, with particular interests in Catholic social thought and Islamic legal theory.

Greg Duncan is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California, Irvine. He has published extensively on welfare and poverty, including (as co-author) Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children and (as co-editor) For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families.

The Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless is a nonprofit coalition of service providers, housing activists, members and homeless people that looks for solutions to homelessness.

Angela Glover Blackwell is founder and CEO of PolicyLink, a national research institute in Oakland, Calif., that works for economic and social equity. She is a lawyer and well-known advocate on issues of poverty, race and the role of faith.