The State Health Access Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota provides information and analysis about health insurance coverage with state-by-state profiles.

Ronald Pagnucco is an associate professor of peace studies at College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn. His research interests include the connection between religion, politics and peace.

Beyond the Yellow Ribbon is a Minnesota-based comprehensive program that creates awareness for the purpose of connecting service members and their families with community support, training, services and resources. Contact Chaplain Major Phillip Winn via the BYR website.

Miguel H. Díaz, who teaches theology at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn., is president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States. His specialties include Cuba, popular religion and U.S. Hispanic theologies. He wrote On Being Human: U.S. Hispanic and Rahnerian Perspectives (Orbis Books, 2001) and co-edited From the Heart of […]

Winona LaDuke, an Anishinaabe, is an author and program director of Honor the Earth, which supports Native environmental issues by working to break the geographic and political isolation of Native communities.

Robert L. Nichols is a professor emeritus in history at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. He is co-editor of Russian Orthodoxy Under the Old Regime.

Paul L. Gavrilyuk is an associate professor in theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. His publications include “Eastern Orthodoxy,” The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion (2007).

Melanie Benjamin is chief executive of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians, based in Onamia, Minn.

Timothy Johnson is Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis-St. Paul. His books include, as co-author, Religious Institutions and Minor Parties in the United States. He wrote the entry on Roe v. Wade for the Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics.