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The following scholars, writers, and editors are available to members of the media to talk about their work in this area. Following is information about their background, special interests, and preferred manner of contact. Listed email addresses should be copied into an email client, replacing "at" with "@".

David F. Arons
David F. Arons is co-director of Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest.
See also Jeffrey M. Berry, co-author of A Voice for Nonprofits.

Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611

Courtney Bender
Courtney Bender is associate professor in the Department of Religion at Columbia University. She is the author of Heaven's Kitchen: Living Religion at Gods Love We Deliver.

Contact
Publicist: Publicity Department, University of Chicago Press
Email: publicity at press.uchicago.edu

Jeffrey M. Berry
Jeffrey M. Berry is John Richard Skuse Class of 1941 Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. His book, The New Liberalism: The Rising Power of Citizen Groups (Brookings, 1999) won the Policy Studies Organization’s 1999 best book award.
See also David F. Arons, co-author of A Voice for Nonprofits.

Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611

Ming Hsu Chen
Ming Hsu Chen is a research analyst in Governmental Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and a research fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
See also E. J. Dionne, co-editor of Sacred Places, Civic Purposes.

Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611

E.J. Dionne Jr.
E.J. Dionne Jr. is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, co-chair of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group.
See also Ming Hsu Chen , co-editor of Sacred Places, Civic Purposes.
See also Kayla M. Drogosz and Robert E. Litan, co-editors of United We Serve.

Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611

Kayla Meltzer Drogosz
Kayla M. Drogosz is a Senior Research Analyst for the religion and civil society project in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.
See also E. J. Dionne and Robert E. Litan, co-editors of United We Serve.

Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611

Paul Farmer
Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to treating some of the world’s poorest populations, in the process helping to raise the standard of health care in underdeveloped areas of the world. A founding director of Partners In Health, an international charity organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty, Dr. Farmer and his colleagues have successfully challenged the policymakers and critics who claim that quality health care is impossible to deliver in resource-poor areas. Dr. Farmer is an attending physician in infectious diseases and Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and medical director of a hospital, the Clinique Bon Sauveur, in rural Haiti.

Paul Farmer began his lifelong commitment to Haiti when still a student, in 1983, working with villages in Haiti’s Central Plateau; the following year he began medical school at Harvard, and two years later helped found Zanmi Lasante (Creole for Partners In Health), serving as its medical director from 1991 to the present. Boston-based Partners In Health was founded in 1987.

Currently Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Farmer has both taught in and served as course director for social-medicine courses in the Department. He also trains medical students, residents, and fellows at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Among the numerous awards Dr. Farmer has received in the last decade are the Duke University Humanitarian Award, the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association, and the American Medical Association’s International Physician (Nathan Davis) Award. In 1993, he was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "genius award" in recognition of his work. Perhaps no award so typifies Paul Farmer’s life and accomplishments, however, as the Heinz Award for the Human Condition, which he received in 2003. In his acceptance of the Heinz Award, Paul Farmer reminded us all that "as members of the world community, we must recognize that we can and should summon our collective resources to save the countless lives that were previously alleged to be beyond our help." He believes we can do no less than this.

Contact
To set up interviews, or for information on Partners in Health, contact:
Melissa Gillooly
Partners In Health/Program In Infectious Disease and Social Change
Harvard Medical School
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617-432-3718
For information pertaining to Paul Farmer's books, contact:
Alexandra Dahne, Publicity Director
University of California Press
Phone: 510.643.5036
Fax: 510.642.9737
Email: alex.dahne at ucpress.edu

Morris P. Fiorina
Morris P. Fiorina is professor of political science and senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of Congress—Keystone of the Washington Establishment (Yale, 1977, 1989), Retrospective Voting in American National Elections (Yale, 1981), and Divided Government (Macmillan, 1992, Allyn & Bacon, 1995).
See also Theda Skocpol, co-editor of Civic Engagement in American Democracy

Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611

Peter Frumkin
Peter Frumkin is professor of public affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and director of the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, both at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of On Being Nonprofit and Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy.

Contact
Publicist: Publicity Department, University of Chicago Press
Email: publicity at press.uchicago.edu

Edward L. Glaeser
Edward L. Glaeser is professor of economics at Harvard University and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the editor of Governance of Not-for-Profit Organizations and coauthor, with Alberto Alesina, of Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe: A World of Difference.

Contact
Publicist: Publicity Department, University of Chicago Press
Email: publicity at press.uchicago.edu

Paul C. Light
Paul C. Light is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University. He is also Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he founded the Center for Public Service. Light is the author of numerous books on public service and management, among them Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence (2002), Government's Greatest Achievements (2002), Making Nonprofits Work (2000), and The New Public Service (1999).

Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611

Robert E. Litan
Robert E. Litan is vice president for research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation. He is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and is currently the director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center on Regulatory Studies. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of several books, including Financial Crises: Lessons from the Past, Preparation for the Future (Brookings, 2005), Financial Statecraft (Yale University Press, 2005), and Globaphobia: Confronting Fears about Open Trade (Brookings, 1998).
See also Kayla M. Drogosz and E. J. Dionne, co-editors of United We Serve.

Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611

Kathleen D. McCarthy
Kathleen D. McCarthy is professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author or editor of several other books, including Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930, Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society, and American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865.

Contact
Publicist: Publicity Department, University of Chicago Press
Email: publicity at press.uchicago.edu

Francie Ostrower
Francie Ostrower is senior research associate at the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, Washington, D.C. In addition to Trustees of Culture, she is the author of Why the Wealthy Give: The Culture of Elite Philanthropy and coauthor of Race, Ethnicity, and Participation in the Arts.

Contact
Publicist: Publicity Department, University of Chicago Press
Email: publicity at press.uchicago.edu
Phone: 773.702.7740
Fax: 773.702.9756

Lester M. Salamon
Lester M. Salamon is director of the Center for Civil Society Studies at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies. He is the editor of The State of Nonprofit America (Brookings, 2002) and has written or edited more than twenty other books, including a leading textbook on nonprofit institutions, America's Nonprofit Sector: A Primer (The Foundation Center, 1999).

Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611

Mark Sidel
Mark Sidel is Professor of Law and Faculty Scholar at the University of Iowa and a research scholar at the University's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies. His research and writing focus on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector; law and development; and comparative law with an emphasis on Asia. He is the author of More Secure, Less Free. Sidel proposed and subsequently organized the compilation of the Books for Understanding: The Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy bibliography.

Sidel has also taught Vietnamese and Chinese law at Harvard Law School (1998). He served as the W.G. Hart Lecturer in Law at the Law Faculty of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London in 2003, and as visiting professor of Asian law in the chaire Asie at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Centre d'Etudes et de Reserches Internationales in 2004. Before assuming his current position, Professor Sidel managed the regional program on philanthropy and the nonprofit sector for the Ford Foundation in South Asia (New Delhi, 1999-2000). He directed Ford Foundation programs in Vietnam (1992-1995), and earlier worked in the Foundation's Beijing office. Professor Sidel has published extensively on philanthropy, the nonprofit sector, civil society, law and development, and comparative law in Asia.

Contact
Email: mark-sidel at uiowa.edu
Phone: 319-384-4640

Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University and author of Boomerang: Health Reform and the Turn Against Politics (Norton, 1996), and Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Harvard, 1992) which won five scholarly awards.
See also Morris P. Fiorina, co-editor of Civic Engagement in American Democracy.

Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611

Abigail A. Van Slyck
Abigail A. Van Slyck is the Dayton Associate Professor of Art History and director of the Architectural Studies Program at Connecticut College. Her books include Free to All: Carnegie Libraries and American Culture, 1890-1920.

Contact
Publicist: Publicity Department, University of Chicago Press
Email: publicity at press.uchicago.edu

David Vogel
David Vogel is the Solomon Lee Professor of Business Ethics at the Haas School of Business and professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Barriers or Benefits? Regulation in Transatlantic Trade (Brookings, 1998), Kindred Strangers: The Uneasy Relationship between Politics and Business (Princeton, 1996), and Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy (Harvard, 1995).

Contact
Publicist: Melissa McConnell, Publicity Manager
Brookings Institution Press
E-mail: mmcconnell at brookings.edu
Phone: 202-536-3611

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