Peter Leone is a professor of special education at the University of Maryland and the project director of the National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice.

Scott Larson is an adjunct professor of Christian ministries at Gordon College in Wenham, Mass. In 2009, Gordon became the first Christian college to offer a major in juvenile justice ministries. Larson is the primary instructor for the school’s juvenile justice ministries courses and the co-founder and president of Straight Ahead Ministries, a faith-based organization that works with […]

Jake Horowitz is a project manager of the Pew Center on the States and a public safety expert. He has a background in counseling juvenile offenders and served as a counselor in an alternative-to-incarceration program for young offenders.

Sister Janet Harris is a Roman Catholic nun and a nationally recognized advocate for juvenile justice reform. She is the founder of InsideOUT Writers, a writers program for incarcerated juveniles in Los Angeles detention centers, where she was once a chaplain.

Charles Ogletree Jr. is a professor of law at Harvard Law School and chair of the American Bar Association’s Juvenile Justice Committee.

Laura Farber is chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Youth at Risk.

Paolo Annino is a clinical professor at Florida State University’s College of Law and runs the Children in Prison Project at FSU.

June 30, 2013, The Boston Globe article about mainline Protestant churches calling on their denominations to divest the assets from their endowments and pension funds from the fossil fuel industry as a symbol of acknowledgment of its role in climate change.

June 28, 2013, post in the “On Faith” blog on The Washington Post website by national evangelical leader Richard Cizik. Cizik outlines his conversion to belief in climate change and encourages all evangelical leaders to urge their parishioners to contact their elected representative and ask for action on climate change.