The Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program is at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The director is William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor. His many books include (as co-author) Good Kids From Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context. Contact through administrative assistant, […]

The Institute on Assets and Social Policy is at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. The director is Thomas Shapiro, who is also Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy at Brandeis’ Heller School for Social Policy and Management. He is the author of The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality and co-author of Black Wealth/ […]

The Rev. Robert VerEecke is a Catholic priest and pastor of The Church of St. Francis Xavier in New York, N.Y. He has written about liturgical dance and dance as prayer and leads workshops on embodied prayer in the Boston area.

Karla Goldman is a historian in residence at the Jewish Women’s Archive in Brookline, Mass. She is an expert on how women have shaped American Judaism.

The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization is a collection of multiple congregations and faith leaders working to overcome divisions of race and social class in Boston. Contact Larry Gordon, the lead organizer.

Bruce Webb teaches macroeconomics and Christian teaching on economics and the economy at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass.

Ibrahim Warde teaches Islamic banking and finance at Tufts University in Boston.

Read an April 16, 2009, Boston Globe article about a Gordon College professor whose personal-finance presentations on campus and in the community draw from an 18th-century sermon about money by John Wesley, founder of Methodism.

Carmen Sirianni is the Morris Hillquit Professor of Labor and Social Thought at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. He is an expert on the role social networks play in youth civic engagement.