The African American Ministers Leadership Council is a nonprofit organization under People for the American Way that celebrates the historical role of the Black Church as a stronghold in a history of oppression.

The African American Ministers in Action is a leadership program under People for the American Way. This program works to create justice and peace for struggling communities in the U.S. to create freedom and opportunity for all.

Kirk O. Hanson is Santa Clara University’s John Courtney Murray S.J. University Professor of Social Ethics. He is one of the pioneers of the business ethics field and taught business ethics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for 23 years.

NeighborWorks America is a national nonprofit created by Congress. Affordable housing is one of its primary goals, and it provides financial and technical assistance to religious groups that work on affordable housing issues. It has district offices around the country.

Jill Suzanne Shook is editor and co-author of Making Housing Happen: Faith-Based Affordable Housing Models, in which chapters describe effective models for housing. She has been asked to speak to secular organizations and seminaries about the “theology of housing,” to explain why people of faith are so motivated on this issue.

Hipolito “Paul” Roldan is chief executive officer of the Hispanic Housing Development Corp. in Chicago, which says it is one of the largest nonprofit housing developers in the nation. He was the only employee when community leaders formed it in 1975 to improve Latinos’ housing and has since received a MacArthur “Genius” Award.

Nicolas P. Retsinas is director emeritis of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He chairs Habitat for Humanity International, serves on the board of the National Housing Endowment and Enterprise Community Partners and is on the board of directors of the National Housing Conference. He co-edited Low-Income Homeownership: Examining the Unexamined Goal and Building […]

Ched Myers is a leader in the Sabbath Economics Collaborative, a group of theologians, educators and activists who work for economic justice. He is also co-founder and program director of Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries in Oak View, Calif.

Paul Wycisk is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the National Urban League, whose goals include economic empowerment of African-Americans through home ownership. It is active in helping people learn about buying a home and obtaining financing.