Daniel Schrag is the Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University as well as a professor of environmental science and engineering and director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. Schrag studies climate and climate change over the broadest range of Earth history.

Charles Ogletree Jr. is a professor of law at Harvard Law School and chair of the American Bar Association’s Juvenile Justice Committee.

June 30, 2013, The Boston Globe article about mainline Protestant churches calling on their denominations to divest the assets from their endowments and pension funds from the fossil fuel industry as a symbol of acknowledgment of its role in climate change.

Kenneth A. Richman is associate professor of philosophy and health care ethics at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. He is author of Ethics and the Metaphysics of Medicine: Reflections on Health and Beneficence. He can be contacted through his website.

Dr. Allan Ropper is executive vice chair of neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. He wrote an editorial accompanying the article in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Brett-Genny Janiczek Beemyn directs the Stonewall Center: A Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Educational Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Holly Ryan is co-chair of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition with Gunner Scott.

Massachusetts state Rep. Carl M. Sciortino Jr., D-Medford, sponsored a bill to include gender identity in the state’s anti-discrimination and hate crime laws.

June 11, 2007, Boston Globe opinion piece by David K. DeWolf defending the right of academics to question evolution.