Read a June 12, 2013 Huffington Post article about the ec0-villages, or cohousing communities, that are becoming a popular trend for adults and seniors alike.

Read a Sept. 3, 2011 article about the Walnut Commons– a new cohousing community developing in Santa Cruz, C.A.

Tunua Thrash is executive director of West Angeles Community Development Corporation in Los Angeles. Begun by the West Angeles Church of God in Christ, it is active in creating affordable housing.

Marsha Cohen is a law professor at Hastings College of Law of the University of California, San Francisco. Her expertise include food and drug law, torts and administrative law.

Dr. Leonard Deftos is a physician, medical researcher and lawyer. He is a professor of medicine at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine, a physician at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and an adjunct professor of law at California Western School of Law in San Diego.

Paula Nesbitt is a visiting associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Feminization of the Clergy in America: Occupational and Organizational Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 1997).

Freethought Day commemorates an Oct. 12, 1692, evidentiary decision by William Phipps, governor of the Colony of Massachusetts, that ended the Salem witch trials. An outdoor observance marking the anniversary is held each year in Sacramento, Calif.

U.S. Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., in 2007 became the first member of Congress in memory to publicly self-identify as an atheist.

Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University works to provide a home to the “broad range of activities illuminating the Nobel Peace laureate’s life and the movements he inspired.” This organization includes the King Papers Project, in which Stanford historian Clayborne Carson edited and published The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.