Brett-Genny Janiczek Beemyn directs the Stonewall Center: A Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Educational Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Holly Ryan is co-chair of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition with Gunner Scott.

Massachusetts state Rep. Carl M. Sciortino Jr., D-Medford, sponsored a bill to include gender identity in the state’s anti-discrimination and hate crime laws.

Dennis Wagner is chairman of the board of the Access Research Network, a nonprofit that supports the discussion and teaching of intelligent design. In a 2008, blog entry, Wagner discussed what the ID community could do to prepare for the Darwin bicentennial.

Leslie Wickman is the executive director of the American Scientific Affiliation, a group of Christian scientists working to improve the dialogue between science and religion. She is also a professor of engineering at California Baptist University.

Kevin Padian is an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, where he operates the Padian Lab.

Barry Ritchie is the vice provost for academic personnel as well as a professor in the department of physics at Arizona State University.

Kevin Anderson is director of the Van Andel Creation Research Center, an extension of the Creation Research Society, in Chino Valley, Ariz.

Walter Bradley is a former engineering professor at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and an advocate of creationism and intelligent design.