The Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, N.Y. Shiffrin has written that liberals need to give faith-based groups more leeway to receive federal funds.

Sara Niccoli is a program representative at the New York State Nurses Association, with experience in nonprofit management and policy advocacy dedicated to improving quality of life for working people. She is a former executive director of the New York State Labor-Religion Coalition.

Paul Sonn is legal co-director of the National Employment Law Project. He has worked at designing and implementing living-wage policies in low-wage industries for more than a decade. He founded and co-directed the Economic Justice Project at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice, which merged with NELP in 2008.

Stephanie Luce is an assistant professor of labor studies at the City University of New York. She has conducted numerous studies on the effects of minimum-wage laws in the U.S. and is the author of Fighting for a Living Wage, which found that communities that successfully passed living-wage laws haven’t always had as much success in implementing […]

The Point Foundation grants scholarships to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. Contact Eugene Patron, director of marketing and communications.

Beth Navon is executive director of the Lineage Project in Brooklyn, N.Y., which works with at-risk and incarcerated juveniles through a variety of programs, including yoga. Among its community partners is the Jewish Board of Children and Family Services.

Adrienne Asch is director of the Center for Ethics and Edward and Robin Milstein Professor of Bioethics at Yeshiva University in New York City. Her writings include “Assisted Reproduction,” in From Birth to Death and Bench to Clinic (2008).

Josephine Johnston is a research scholar and director of research operations at the Hastings Center in Garrison, N.Y. Her writings include “Judging Octomon” in the Hastings Review and “Reproductive Health: Control and Use of Gametes and Embryos” and “Reproductive Health: Storage and Disposal of Gametes and Embryos” for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (London, UK) […]

David Goldstein is a professor of genetics and development at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and director of Columbia University’s Institute for Genomic Medicine in partnership with New York-Presbyterian in New York, N.Y. Goldstein has predicted there will be a growing demand for “designer babies.”