Katrina Lantos Swett is the chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and president of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice. She is an expert on religious freedom and human rights issues around the world.

Brittany Shoots-Reinhard, director of special projects for the Foundation Beyond Belief, writes in this blog post about the role of “psychological distance” in providing aid after the Philippines typhoon. Shoots-Reinhard has a doctorate in social psychology.

The Humanist Crisis Response program of the Foundation Beyond Belief is asking humanists to contribute relief money for the Philippines. Within days, the appeal raised $40,000.

Andrew Brown of The Guardian has an April 25 column exploring why some violent organizations feed off religion and others are atheistic.

TheHumanist.com is the daily online news site published by the American Humanist Association. It is based in Washington, D.C. Contact through the website.

A writer and games designer. His games, including Shabbat-Put! and Sacrifice Play have been staged in the U.S. and U.K., and earlier this year he staged a fully-gamed church service at Union Theological Seminary. His largest project to date is a belief agnostic, fully-gamed new religion, Ten Year Game, which started in fall 2011.

Gallup’s page on religion provides a number of studies and research reports on religion in the U.S. Contact through the website.

The Reference Desk’s Religion page provides resources on all types of religion.

The University of Wisconsin Data and Information Services Center is a research organization that provides educational resources on social sciences, including religion.