Erwin Raphael McManus, a native of El Salvador, is lead pastor and cultural architect at Mosaic, a diverse Southern Baptist church in Los Angeles. Mosaic is packed with a multiethnic mix of artistic young adults; McManus describes Mosaic as a cosmopolitan congregation serving the post-modern, post-Western, post-Christian world. McManus is the author of An Unstoppable Force: Daring […]

Gary A. Tobin is president of the Institute for Jewish & Community Research, a nonprofit think tank in San Francisco. He formerly directed the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University and is the co-author of In Every Tongue: The Racial and Ethnic Diversity of the Jewish People.

Choyin Rangdrol is a teacher in the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism and the founder of Rainbow Dharma, a Buddhist center in Oakland, Calif., and of the website RainbowDharma.com. The author of Black Buddha: Changing the Face of American Buddhism (published in 2006), Rangdrol has written about racial separation in American Buddhism.

Kathryn Kahn is director of outreach for the Union for Reform Judaism. She can speak about ethnic diversity and changing demographics within American Judaism.

Community of St. Andrew is Catholic congregation in a racially diverse neighborhood in Portland, Ore., offers Mass in English, Spanish and Kanhoval, a Mayan language. Contact pastor Dave Zegar.

Jonathan Lee, son of a Korean missionary to the United States, is pastor of Holliston United Methodist Church in Pasadena, Calif. It has services in English and Korean.

Gregory Stock is a former director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health. His research interests include the implications for society, medicine and business of the Human Genome Project and developments in molecular genetics and bioinformatics. His books include Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future (Houghton Mifflin, 2002), […]

Dr. Bernard Lo is director of the program in medical ethics and a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco’s School of Medicine. He has written and taught on many topics in bioethics, including research with human beings, AIDS, neuroethics, stem cell policy, pain management and end-of-life care. He wrote Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A […]

Henry “Hank” Greely is a law professor at Stanford University who specializes in health law, genetics and law and biotechnology law. He is the lead author of Cloning Californians? Report of the California Advisory Committee on Human Cloning. He is also a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart and has served as chairman of the […]