Jennifer Pader
The Rev. Jennifer Pader is a disability rights advocate and affiliated minister for pastoral care at Fourth Universalist Society in New York.
Region: New York
Marilyn A. Martone
Marilyn A. Martone is a retired associate professor of theology and religious studies at St. John’s University in New York, where her research and teaching focused on the distribution of health resources and issues of rehabilitation of brain-trauma victims. After Martone’s adult daughter suffered a serious brain injury in a car accident, Martone wrote a book, Over the […]
Autism Speaks
Autism Speaks is a national advocacy organization founded in 2005 by Bob Wright, former chief executive officer of NBC, and his wife, Suzanne. They have a grandson with autism. Contact CJ Volpe, Chief of Media Strategy.
The Vera Institute of Justice
The Vera Institute of Justice works to improve justice services and systems through research and projects. Nicholas Turner is the president and director.
“Surveillance video captures brutal beating of gay man, Jack Price, in Queens; Both suspects arrested”
A brutal Oct. 8, 2009, beating in New York City by two attackers left an openly gay man in a coma. The beating was classified as a hate crime; it was caught on a surveillance video and made headlines around the country.
Amber Miller
Amber Miller is associate professor of physics at Columbia University in New York, N.Y. She leads the Columbia University Experimental Cosmology group, which studies “relic signatures from the Big Bang with the goal of understanding the origin and evolution of the universe.” She teaches a course titled “Physics for Poets” and is interested in the interface […]
Margaret Abraham
Margaret Abraham is a sociology professor at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. She is the author of Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence Among South Asian Immigrants in the United States.
Kavita Mehra
Kavita Mehra is executive director of Sakhi for South Asian Women, a community-based organization in the New York metropolitan area committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin.
Bruce S. Cooper
Bruce S. Cooper is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University in Manhattan. He edited Homeschooling in Full View: A Reader.