Adelita Medina is executive director of Alianza, the National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence. She has said that advocates for women who have experienced domestic violence should take a woman’s faith into consideration when trying to help her.

Summer Hathout is a prosecutor in the Los Angeles district attorney’s office and co-founder of the Muslim Women’s League. She has written about misperceptions of domestic violence within the American Muslim community. Contact via the Muslim Women’s League.

The HomeSchool Association of California publishes a newspaper and offers legislative and legal advocacy.

Michael L. Coulter is a professor of humanities and political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pa. He is the author of “Home School Legal Defense Association” in the Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics.

The National Home Education Research Institute in Salem, Ore., publishes a journal, the Home School Researcher.

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.

Robert Kunzman is an associate professor at Indiana University (Bloomington) School of Education. He posts the Homeschooling Research & Scholarship Web site. He is the author of Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling (2009).

Bruce S. Cooper is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University in Manhattan. He edited Homeschooling in Full View: A Reader.