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Abdulwahab
Alkebsi
Abdulwahab Alkebsi is Director, Dialogue of Civilizations, and
a board member of The Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy.
CSID is a non-profit organization, based in Washington, D.C.,
dedicated to promoting democracy in the Muslim world and encouraging
better understanding in the West of Islam's approach towards individual
freedom, civil rights, and political pluralism. Before his appointment
at the Center, Mr. Alkebsi was Executive Director of the Islamic
Free Market Institute Foundation, with which he is still associated,
and has worked to further its primary mission of developing grassroots
Muslim participation in the political process in the United States.
Mr. Alkebsi was the Deputy Director of the American Muslim Council,
where he headed the Political and Governmental Affairs Department.
Mr. Alkebsi has also served as the Executive Director of the American
Muslim Association for Democracy. He co-established and served
as Deputy Director of the American Task Force for Bosnia in 1994.
Mr. Alkebsi holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the
American University.
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John J.
DiIulio, Jr.
John J. DiIulio, Jr. is Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of
Politics, Religion, and Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania,
and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the Brookings
Institution. He served as Assistant to the President of the United
States and first director of the White House Office of Faith-Based
and Community Initiatives. He has authored or co-authored a dozen
books including (with E. J. Dionne) What's God Got to Do With the
American Experiment? (Brookings, 2000) and (with James Q. Wilson)
American Government: Institutions and Policies (Houghton Mifflin,
2002). He is a contributing editor of The Weekly Standard and
writes for numerous magazines and newspapers.
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Michelle Engler
Michelle Engler is a former First Lady of Michigan. She has served
for nine years as the founding chair of the Michigan Community
Service Commission, which encourages state citizens, especially
young people, to make a commitment to community service. Mrs.
Engler also serves on the boards of directors of the Connect Michigan
Alliance and the National Points of Light Foundation. She is a
member of the National Commission on Service-Learning and was
appointed by President Bush as a member of the Federal Home Mortgage
Corporation. Mrs. Engler received the Karmanos Cancer Institute’s
Award for Leadership for her work in promoting breast cancer awareness
and has received Northwood University’s Distinguished Women’s
Award, which is presented to women of “outstanding leadership
and achievement” from across the nation. Mrs. Engler received
a B. A. in Government from the University of Texas and is a graduate
of the University of Texas Law School.
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Feather
O. Houstoun
Feather O. Houstoun is the Regional President of AmeriChoice. She is the former Secretary of Public Welfare for the State of Pennsylvania. She has also served with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Washington D.C. During her last two years with HUD, Ms. Houstoun was the Senior Policy Officer in charge of budget and program analysis. She has also headed the financial operations for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) and served as State Treasurer under New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean. Secretary Houstoun was also the Executive Director of New Jersey's Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency. She holds a Master's Degree from the University of Texas.
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Sara Meléndez
Sara Meléndez is Research Professor of Nonprofit Management at George Washington University. Prior to joining the University, she served as the President and CEO of Independent Sector. She has served as a spokesperson on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector for various media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, NBC News, CNBC, and CNN. Before assuming the presidency of Independent Sector, Dr. Meléndez served as President of the Center for Applied Linguistics, as Vice Provost and Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut, and Director if Special Minority Initiatives at the American Council on Education. She serves as a Trustee in the Boards of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, the Ethics Resource Center, the National Puerto Rican Forum, and Richmond College, the American International University in London. She holds a Doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.
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Ronald B. Mincy
Ronald B. Mincy is the Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social
Policy and Social Work Practice at Columbia University. He has
served at the Ford Foundation in several programmatic positions
related to the treatment of low-income fathers by U.S. welfare,
child support, and family support systems. Dr. Mincy has taught
in the Economics Departments of Purdue University, Bentley College,
the University of Delaware, and Swarthmore College, and worked
at the U.S. Department of Labor and at the Urban Institute. He
is a former co-chair of the Grantmakers Income Security Taskforce
and is a Board Member of the Grantmakers for Children, Youth and
Families. Dr. Mincy holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
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John T.
Noonan, Jr.
John T. Noonan, Jr., was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit in 1985 by President Reagan. He has also
taught as an Assistant Professor and Professor at the Notre Dame
Law School. Judge Noonan has also taught as a Professor of Law
at the University of California at Berkeley. He has held a number
of government positions, including as a special staff member of
the National Security Council, chair of the Brookline Redevelopment
Authority, a member of the Presidential Commission on Population
and the American Future, and as a consultant to both the National
Institute of Health and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Judge Noonan is the author of twelve books, including The Lustre
of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom (University
of California Press, 1998). He holds an M. A. and a Ph.D. from
the Catholic University of America, an LL.B. from Harvard Law
School, studied at Cambridge University, and is the recipient
of seven honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from higher education
institutions.
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James
Reichley
James Reichley is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Georgetown
University Public Policy Institute. He has served as a Legislative
Assistant for Senator Kenneth Keating (NY) and Legislative Secretary
to Governor William Scranton (PA). Mr. Reichley went on to work
as a Political Editor at Fortune magazine. He also served on President
Ford’s White House Staff and as Domestic Policy Assistant.
He is the author of numerous books, book chapter and articles,
including Religion in American Public Life (Brookings, 1985),
The Life of the Parties (revised edition, Rowman & Littlefield,
2000), and The Values Connection (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).
Mr. Reichley’s new book, Faith in Politics (Brookings, 2002),
will be released this fall. He received an M. A. in American History
from Harvard University.
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Eugene F. Rivers, III
Eugene F. Rivers, III, is a co-Founder of the Boston TenPoint
Coalition. He also serves as co-Chair of the National TenPoint
Leadership Foundation and is currently working to cultivate church
leadership in inner-city neighborhoods. Reverend Rivers is Pastor
of the Azusa Christian Community in Four Corners, an inner-city
section of Boston. He is a contributing editor to Sojourners magazine
and a contributor to a number of national periodicals. Reverend
Rivers is the author of The TenPoint Plan for a National Church
Mobilization to Combat Black-on-Black Violence , and of two forthcoming
collections of essays, On the Responsibility of Intellectuals
in the Age of Crack (2001), and Beyond the Nationalism of Fools:
A Manifesto for a New Black Movement (2001). He was the subject
of a Newsweek cover story titled “God vs. Gangs” and
is a graduate of Harvard University.
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David
Saperstein
David Saperstein is the Director of the Religious Action Center
of Reform Judaism. He represents the national Reform Jewish Movement
to Congress and the Bush Administration. Rabbi Saperstein was
elected as the first Chair of the U.S. Commission on International
Religious Freedom and serves on the Boards of numerous national
organizations, including the NAACP and People for the American
Way, as well as serving as co-Chair of the Coalition to Preserve
Religious Liberty. Rabbi Saperstein is also an attorney and teaches
seminars in both First Amendment Church-State Law and in Jewish
Law at Georgetown University Law School. His writings have appeared
in the Washington Post and the New York Times and he is the author
of Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice: Tough Moral Choices of
Our Time (Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1999). Rabbi
Saperstein has appeared on Nightline, the Oprah Winfrey Show,
the Lehrer News Hour and ABC’s Sunday Morning.
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William
F. Winter
William F. Winter served as Governor of the State of Mississippi
from 1980-1984. As Governor, he secured passage pf nationally
acclaimed education reform legislation. He has served as chairman
of the Commission on the Future of the South, the Southern Regional
Education Board, the National Civic League, the Kettering Foundation,
the Foundation for the Mid-South, the Board of Trustees of the
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and the National
Commission on the State and Local Public Service. Mr. Winter is
currently a member of the law firm of Watkins Ludlam Winter &
Stennis, P. A. in Jackson, Mississippi. He is a graduate of the
University of Mississippi.
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Harris Wofford
Harris Wofford, Chairman of America's Promise - The Alliance
for Youth, has been at the forefront of the nation’s service
movement since helping to launch the Peace Corps in 1961. A former
U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, and more recently CEO of the Corporation
for National Service, Senator Wofford has dedicated much of his
life to the goal of making citizen service a common expectation
and experience for all Americans. He played a key role in both
crafting and working to pass the trailblazing legislation that
created AmeriCorps and the Corporation for National Service. Senator
Wofford was an instrumental figure in organizing The Presidents’
Summit for America’s Future, held in 1997. Senator Wofford
joined the board of directors of America’s Promise in March
2001 and was elected Chairman in January 2002. In 2000, Senator
Wofford convened and chaired the Working Group on Human Needs
and Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which issued the report
Finding Common Ground. He is the author of numerous publications
including Of Kennedys and Kings: Making Sense of the Sixties (1980).
He is an alumnus of the University of Chicago and both Howard
University and Yale Law Schools.
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