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.

Salma Abugideiri is advisory board member and director of training of the Peaceful Families Project and a licensed professional counselor in private practice in Sterling, Virginia. She is the co-author of What Islam Says About Domestic Violence: A Guide for Helping Muslim Families.

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

The Christian Home Educators Association of California is based in Norwalk, Calif.

The Texas Home School Coalition, a Christian-oriented advocacy group based in Lubbock, sponsors an awareness campaign in April.

Arizona Families for Home Education is a Christian-oriented advocacy group based in Chandler, Ariz.

Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., was opened in 2000 by the Home School Legal Defense Association to provide higher education for Christian homeschooled students.

Carol Topp, author of Homeschool Co-ops: How to Start Them, Run Them and Not Burn Out (2008), blogs about the issues of running a co-op and offers workshops and other resources to parents interested in homeschooling children. Topp is a CPA who works out of her home office in Cincinnati.