Help the Child Brides is led by Flora Jessop, who lives in Phoenix, Ariz.

The Singapore Dakshina Bharatha Brahmana Sabha is an organization that provides resources on Hinduism, such as practices, festivals, current news and links to other informational resources. Contact the president, Sri G Srinivasan.

Mary Mackert, a former plural wife who lives in Utah, wrote and published The Sixth of Seven Wives: Escape From Modern-Day Polygamy (xpolygamist.com, 2001).

Mark Henkel of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is a national polygamy advocate and founder of TruthBearer.org, a non-Mormon organization that promotes Christian polygamy. Contact through the website.

Dorothy Allred Solomon, a monogamist who is the 28th of the 48 children born to the late polygamist Mormon Rulon Allred, is the author of Predators, Prey and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy (W.W. Norton and Co., 2003). She lives in the Salt Lake City area. She says that because of secrecy and isolation, as well […]

John R. Llewellyn is a retired Salt Lake County, Utah, sheriff’s lieutenant who extensively investigated polygamy cults. A former polygamist, he wrote Polygamy Under Attack: From Tom Green to Brian David Mitchell; A Teenager’s Tears: When Parents Convert To Polygamy; and Murder of a Prophet: The Dark Side of Utah Polygamy. Llewellyn is now a monogamist and muckraker, and he […]

Historian D. Michael Quinn is the author of several scholarly books about Mormons, including Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (Signature Books, 1998). In 1997, the American Historical Association gave him a best-book award for Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example (University of Illinois Press, 1996). He has worked as an independent scholar since 1988, when […]

Kathryn Daynes is an assistant history professor at Brigham Young University in Utah with expertise on Mormon plural marriage. She wrote More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910 (University of Illinois Press, 2001).

Brahma Kumaris is a spiritual, educational institution that works to promote humanism, tolerance and enthusiasm for spreading Hinduism across the globe. The institute is located in India.