Linda B. Hess is a lecturer in religious studies at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. She is an expert in the poetry of 15th- and 16th-century Hindu saints and can discuss their continued influence.

Thomas E. Buckley is a Jesuit who teaches American religious history at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, Calif. He wrote Church and State in Revolutionary Virginia, 1776-1787 and is working on a study of Jefferson and religious freedom.

Bruce Braden edited ‘Ye Will Say I Am No Christian’: The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values (Prometheus, 2005), source documents that trace the views of Jefferson and Adams over time.

Robert Hanser is the head of the criminal justice department and the assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Brittney Thomas is director of the Kentucky branch of Not for Sale: Re-Abolish Slavery. She says she believes that with increased awareness, human trafficking can be extinguished within her lifetime.

Rachel Braver is the coordinator of the North Carolina Coalition Against Human Trafficking, a coalition of state agencies and nonprofit groups that respond to human trafficking violations in the state.

Robin Rinehart is an associate professor in religious studies at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. She is an expert in Hinduism and Hindu saints.

The New York Anti-Trafficking Coalition is an umbrella organization of New York area advocacy groups, including several religious ones. They helped pass the state’s anti-trafficking law.

Donna M. Hughes is a professor at the University of Rhode Island, where she holds the Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair in the women’s studies program. She has expertise in violence, slavery and sexual exploitation. She focuses on domestic sex trafficking in the U.S., anti-trafficking policy and prostitution and teaches courses on sex […]