Jon Roberts is the Tomorrow Foundation Professor of History at Boston University.

Patrick Webb wrote the 2008 paper “More Food, But Not Yet Enough.” He is an expert in global food security and development policy and a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.

The New Entry Sustainable Farming Project at Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy assists people with limited resources to begin farming in Massachusetts. Its larger goal is to promote economic self-reliance and food security. Contact project director Jennifer Hashley.

The Mind & Life Institute, based in Massachusetts, is working to foster discussion and a research partnership involving science and Buddhism – studying, for example, the impact of meditation on the brain. It sponsors conferences exploring these issues, and holds a summer research institute.

Yvonne M. Vissing is a sociology professor at Salem State College in Salem, Mass. She is the author of Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Homeless Children and Families in Small-Town America and can speak about the spiritual lives of homeless children.

Robert Coles is a professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at Harvard University and chairman of the Forgiveness Research Center. A winner of the Medal of Freedom, Coles is the author of The Spiritual Life of Children and The Moral Life of Children.

Mimi Doe is the founder of SpiritualParenting.com, a Web site dedicated to helping parents raise children who are happy, kind and “connected to their spirits and to their families.” Doe, the mother of two, is the author of Nurturing Your Teenager’s Soul: A Practical Guide to Raising a Kind, Honorable, Compassionate Teen and co-author of 10 Principles for Spiritual […]

Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma is a Baltimore treatment center for survivors of torture. Contact through the website.

Susan Niditch is professor of religion at Amherst College in Massachusetts and has expertise in Hebrew Bible, war and women.