Patricia Castillo is executive director of PEACE Initiative, a San Antonio coalition of organizations committed to ending domestic violence. The group has held workshops for local faith leaders about responding to domestic violence.

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.

Sara Lisherness co-edited Striking Terror No More: The Church Responds to Domestic Violence (Bridge Resources, 1997). She is the coordinator of the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program in Louisville, Ky.

Ellen T. Armour is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Religion, Gender and Sexuality at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a professor in the Divinity School. Her research interests include feminist theology; theories of sexuality, race, gender, disability and embodiment; and contemporary continental philosophy.

Beverly Horsburgh is a law professor at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Fla. One of her specialties is Jewish law and Jewish battered women

The Rev. Melody Johnson is director of outreach, team care, caring and sharing at Greater Piney Grove Baptist Church in Atlanta. She spoke at a February 2007 This Far by Faith seminar of the Black Church and Domestic Violence Institute.

The Rev. Amanda Hendler-Voss is senior pastor at First Congregational UCC in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Wellspring Clergywomen’s Alliance of the Black Church and Domestic Violence Institute.

The Rev. Robin Griffeth is a United Methodist pastor in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and has participated in conferences on the religious response to domestic violence. She has volunteered for Sistercare, a battered women’s shelter, and was a training coordinator for the South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse.