Sheryl Cates is executive director of the Texas Council on Family Violence, an organization that works to educate the community about domestic violence. It has formed partnerships with different faith groups across Texas and publishes a brochure for clergy about responding to domestic violence. It is based in Austin, Texas.

Lakshmy Parameswaran is the founder and past president of DAYA, a Houston organization that raises awareness about domestic violence in the South Asian community.

Rabbi Judith Abrams of Houston co-edited Jewish Perspectives on Theology and the Human Experience of Disability.

The Texas Home School Coalition, a Christian-oriented advocacy group based in Lubbock, sponsors an awareness campaign in April.

Byron R. Johnson is a professor of sociology at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, who has written widely on the relationship between religion and criminal behavior. He is the author of the entry “The Role of Religious Institutions in Responding to Crime and Delinquency” in The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion.

Ellen Marrus is co-director of the Center for Children, Law & Policy at the University of Houston Law Center.

Derek H. Davis is dean of the College of Humanities and the Graduate School at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas. He is the author of publications on church and state issues and on religious freedom.

Kent A. Chambers is an associate professor of chemistry and environmental management at Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Council on Family Violence jointly produced a brochure for clergy about domestic abuse.