Fall 2002, Vol. 29 No. 2

Contributors

Liam Corley is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of California, Riverside. He has directed summer linguacultural exchange programs at universities in China and taught in a variety of institutions in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Corley was formerly the Assistant to the President and interim Chief of Staff for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA.
Email: liamcorley@earthlink.net

Michael J. Maher is the author of Being Gay and Lesbian in a Catholic High School: Beyond the Uniform (Harrington Park Press, 2001). He is currently a lay chaplain and part-time instructor in the School of Education at Loyola University Chicago. He worked as a lay Catholic campus minister in Missouri for six years before coming to Loyola in 1996. He earned a Masters Degree in religious education at the University of Kansas, a Masters Degree in pastoral studies at Loyola University Chicago, and a Ph.D. in education at Saint Louis University.
Email: mmaher@wpo.it.luc.edu

Nicholas Miller is an attorney with the Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood law firm in Los Angeles, California.
Email: nmiller@sidley.com

Mark Osler is an Assistant Professor at Baylor Law School and a former Assistant United States Attorney.
Email: Mark_W_Osler@baylor.edu

Alberto López Pulido is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the west campus of Arizona State University and an affiliated faculty member in Religious Studies and research associate at the Hispanic Research Center on the Tempe campus.
Email: DrPollo@asu.edu

Jan Resseger serves as Minister for Public Education and Witness in the United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries. The UCC is the only mainline Protestant denomination with a staff portfolio in public education justice in the tradition of the UCC’s Congregationalist forebears who were instrumental in establishing universal, compulsory education in this country, and in the tradition of the American Missionary Association that founded schools across the South During and after the Civil War as the path to full citizenship for freed slaves. Jan staffs a denomination-wide public education task force whose members have engaged in immersion discernment visits to public schools in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Phoenix, Portland, Oregon, and rural North Carolina. This group has created resources highlighting the widespread school finance crisis in all these places and raising concerns about how the church can best advocate for schools that welcome children from all races and all cultures.
Email: ressegerj@ucc.org