Young Lee-Hertig is co-founder and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity in Castro Valley, Calif., which fosters research into Asian-American religion, including that of Koreans.

Martinez J. Hewlett is an emeritus professor of molecular biology at the University of Arizona, a lay member of the Dominican order and resident of Taos, N.M. He is also an adjunct professor at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif.

Joan Roughgarden is a retired professor of biological sciences and geophysics at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. She now resides in Hawaii where she is an adjunct faculty member at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. She is author of Evolution and Christian Faith: Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist (Island Press, 2006) among eight others.

Ann Taves is professor at the University of California – Santa Barbara. She wrote the article “Religion and Same-Sex Relations in the American Context” for the Religious Studies Review.

Gilbert Herdt is professor of sexuality and anthropology at San Francisco State University and director of the National Sexuality Resource Center.

Salim Yaqub is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in U.S. foreign relations and is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he wrote about the relationship between Americans and Arabs in the 1970s.

Robert Cochran Jr. is Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law and director of the Institute on Law, Religion and Ethics at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. He is the editor of Faith and Law: How Religious Traditions From Calvinism to Islam View American Law.

Juan E. Campo is associate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in the comparative study of Islam, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and teaches courses on Islamic tradition; religion, politics and society in the Persian Gulf region; Islamic mysticism; and modern Islamic movements.

Alameda Islamica is a weblog run by an informal gathering of San Francisco Bay Area Latino Muslims. Their goal is to bring together hispanics with Islamic beliefs and to educate the community about the religion. They post information about gatherings and classes.