Rabbi Sharon Brous
Ikar Congregation, Los Angeles, California

Rabbi Richard Block
Senior Rabbi, The Temple – Tifereth Israel, Cleveland, OH; Executive Committee, We Believe Ohio

Cantor Jack Chomsky
Congregation Tifereth Israel, Columbus, OH; Executive Committee, We Believe Ohio

Dr. Leonard Fein
Founder, Moment Magazine, Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger

Rabbi Marla Feldman
Director, Commission on Social Action, Union for Reform Judaism

Simon Greer
President, Jewish Funds for Justice

Rabbi Steve Gutow
President, Jewish Council for Public Affairs

Rabbi Jill Jacobs
Director of Education, Jewish Funds for Justice

Rabbi Michael Lerner
Editor, Tikkun Magazine

Dr. David Luchins
Vice President, The Orthodox Union; former Senior Policy Advisor, Sen. Patrick Moynihan

Rabbi Roly Matalon
Rabbi, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun

Ruth Messinger
President, American Jewish World Service

Rabbi Jonah Pesner
Director, Just Congregations, Union for Reform Judaism

Rabbi David Rosenn
Founding Director, Avodah, The Jewish Service Corps

Rabbi Jennie Rosenn
Program Director, Jewish Life and Values, Nathan Cummings Foundation

Rabbi David Saperstein
Director, Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism

Daniel Sokatch
Director, Progressive Jewish Alliance

Al Vorspan
Civil rights leader; Director Emeritus of the Commission on Social Action and Vice President Emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism; founding Director of Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism

Rabbi Arthur Waskow
Director, The Shalom Center

Rabbi Eric Yoffie
President, Union for Reform Judaism

Rev. Tim Ahrens
Senior Minister, First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio
Director, We Believe Ohio

Rev. Steven Baines
Director, Faith Action Network, People for the American Way Foundation

Kim Bobo
Director, National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice

Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock
Director, Faith Voices for the Common Good

Rev. Eric Brown
Pastor, Woodland Christian Church, Columbus, OH; Executive Committee, We Believe Ohio

Dr. Delwin Brown
Coordinator, Progressive Christian Witness

Rev. Jennifer Butler
Director, Faith in Public Life

Sr. Simone Campbell
Director, The Network

Dr. Tony Campolo
Author of numerous books and progressive evangelical leader

Rev. Jeff Carr
CEO, Sojourners/Call to Renewal

Rev. Felix Carrion
Senior Minister, Euclid Avenue Congregational Church, Cleveland, OH; executive committee, We Believe Ohio

Dr. Shaun Casey
Associate Professor of Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary (Washington, DC); Senior Fellow in Religion, Center for American Progress, 2007; former Religion Advisor for Sen. John Kerry, 2004-2007

Sr. Joan Chittester
Author and commentator for National Catholic Reporter

Dr. John Cobb, Jr.
Author, scholar, and co-founder of Progressive Christians Uniting

Judy Coode
Council Chair, Pax Christi USA

Rev. Joseph Darby
Civil rights leader and Pastor, Morris Avenue Baptist Church, Charleston, SC

Fr. John Dear, SJ
Author and Peace Activist

Rev. Mark Diemer
Pastor, Grace of God Lutheran Church, Columbus, OH; executive committee, We Believe Ohio

Marie Dennis
Director, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns; Vice President, Pax Christi International

Rev. Bob Edgar
General Secretary, National Council of Churches

Rev. Dr. James Forbes
Senior Minister, The Riverside Church, New York; Founder, The Healing of the Nations Foundation

Rev. Vincent Frosh
Pastor, First A.M.E. Zion Church, Columbus, OH; executive committee, We Believe Ohio

Rev. Welton Gaddy
Director, The Interfaith Alliance

Brenda Girton-Mitchell
Associate General Secretary for Justice and Advocacy, National Council of Churches

Fr. James E. Hug, SJ
President, Center of Concern

Rev. Vince Isner
Director, Faithful America

Alexia Kelley
CEO, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good

Rev. Harry Knox
Director, Religion and Faith Program, Human Rights Campaign

Rev. Jennifer Kottler
Associate Director, Protestants for the Common Good

Rev. Peter Laarman
Director, Progressive Christians Uniting

Rev. Dr. John Lentz, Jr.
Senior Pastor, Forest Hill Church, Cleveland, OH; executive committee, We Believe Ohio

The Very Rev. Tracey Lind
Dean, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Cleveland, OH; executive committee, We Believe Ohio

Rev. Timothy McDonald
Senior Pastor, First Iconium Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA; Chair, African American Ministers in Action, People for the American Way Foundation

Rev. Brian McLaren
Author, speaker, pastor; author of Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope

Dr. Rosemary Radford Ruether
Professor of Theology, Claremont Graduate School

Rev. Alexia Salvatierra
Director, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Samuel
Civil rights leader and Senior Pastor, Victory Church, Stone Mountain, GA

Rev. Daniel Schultz
Founder, Streetprophets.org, Pastor, Salem United Church of Christ

Maureen Shea
Director of Government Relations, The Episcopal Church; former Liaison to Religious Communities for President Bill Clinton, 1997-2000

Dr. Ron Sider
President, Evangelicals for Social Action; author of numerous books, including Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, which Christianity Today named one of the most influential books of the century

Rev. Ron Stief
Director of the Office of Public Life and Social Policy, United Church of Christ

Rev. Dr. Susan Thistlethwaite
President, Chicago Theological Seminary; Visiting Senior Fellow in Religion, Center for American Progress

Rev. Jim Wallis
President, Sojourners/Call to Renewal

Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
Chairman and Scholar in Residence, Nawawi Foundation

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
Imam of Masjid al-Farah, New York City; founder of American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA)

Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur
Author of Living Islam Out Loud, second-generation African American Muslim activist for women’s equality in Islam

Dr. Khaled Abou el Fadl
The Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Fellow in Islamic Law, UCLA School of Law

Dr. Kecia Ali
Assistant Professor of Religion
Boston University

Dr. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Professor of Law, Emory University, human rights activist, and author of Toward and Islamic Reformation (Syracuse University Press, 1996).

Sarah Eltantawi
Former Communications Director, Progressive Muslim Union

Gray Henry
Director, Fons Vitae Press

Dr. Nazir Khaja
Chairman, Islamic Information Service

Dr. Muqtedar Khan
Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of Islamic Studies Program, University of Delaware

Dr. Eboo Patel
Founder and Director, Interfaith Youth Corps

Dr. Omid Safi
Professor of Religion, University of North Carolina; editor, Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism (One World, 2003)

A’isha Samad
Executive Committee, We Believe Ohio, Cleveland, OH

Rabia Terri-Harris
Coordinator, Muslim Peace Fellowship

Bill Aiken
Director of Public Affairs, Soka Gakkai International

Lama Surya Das
Founder, Dzogchen Foundation

Bernard Glassman
Founder, Zen Peacemakers

Rev. Masao Kodani
Senshin Buddhist Temple, Los Angeles, CA

Susan Moon
Editor, Turning Wheel Magazine; editor, Not Turning Away: The Practice of Engaged Buddhism

Bhante Yogavacara Rahula
Vice-Abbot, Bhavana Society

Alan Senauke
Head of Practice, Berkeley Zen Center; Director of Programs and Peacework Coordinator, Buddhist Peace Fellowship

Robert Thurman
Professor of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University; President, American Institute of Buddhist Studies

Unitarian Universalism

Rev. Dr. Bill Schulz
Director, Amnesty International USA; former president Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Rev. William Sinkford
President, Unitarian Universalist Association

Progressive Political Leaders and Public Intellectuals

Melody Barnes
Executive Vice President for Policy, Center for American Progress

Leah Daughtry
Chief of Staff, Democratic National Committee

E.J. Dionne
Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution; columnist for Washington Post

Dr. Diana Eck
Director, The Pluralism Project, Harvard University

Mike McCurry
Former Press Secretary, President Bill Clinton

Governor Ted Strickland
Governor of Ohio

Amy Sullivan
Editor, Washington Monthly

Mara Vanderslice
President, Common Good Strategies; former Director of Religious Outreach for Sen. John Kerry’s presidential campaign, 2004