Nina Balsam, JD, is Co-Chair of the Missouri Restorative Justice Coalition. She was the major force behind the Symposium held on the MU campus. Until 2010, she was formerly the Director of the Restorative Justice center for Women in Transition. She is presently with the University of Missouri Extension as the St Louis County Program Director.
Email address: ninab3@sbcglobal.net

Gene Bonham, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg. He received his PhD from Sam Houston State University. His research interests include: community and restorative justice, program evaluation, civil liability in Corrections and special needs populations in corrections.
Email address: Ibonham@ucmo.edu

David Bryson graduated from Oriel College, Oxford University, England and is retired from Shell where he was a systems analyst. He lives in Great Britain.
Email address: Dbbryson@aol.com

Jessica Corno received her M.S from the Criminology Program at the Missouri State University in 2008. She was among the first graduates of the program. Prior to this, she had completed an internship at the United States Probation Office in St Louis.
Email address: corno_93@hotmail.com

Aida Hass, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at Missouri State University. She received her PhD from George Washington University in Sociology. Her areas of interest are Criminology, Deviance and Corrections. Her research examines the social organization of the modern penal institution, prisoner re-entry programs and faith-based initiatives as resources for ex- prisoners.
Email address: aidahass@missouristate.edu

Angela Hessler received her Ph.D. in earth science from Stanford University. She was on the faculty at grand Valley State University and is currently a geologist at Chevron Energy Technology Company, in San Ramon, CA.
Email address: ahessler@malfamia.com

Richard Hessler, Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He publishes in the gerontology and methodology areas.
Email address: Hesslerr@missouri.edu

Joanne Katz, JD, is a Professor of Legal Studies in the Department of Criminal justice/Legal Studies at Missouri Western State University. She received her JD from the University of Missouri-Kansas. Her research interests include restorative justice, alternatives to incarceration and collaboration between stakeholders in the criminal justice system. Presently her work is focused on the benefits to community members who volunteer in the criminal justice system.
Email address: katz@missouriwestern.edu

David Lerman, JD, is one of only two restorative justice prosecutors in Wisconsin. He received his JD from the University of Wisconsin. As his contribution to this issue reveals, he was instrumental in establishing the Community Conferencing Program in Milwaukee. He has a number of interrelated interests he is pursuing, including integrating spirituality, law and politics, improving the culture of legal education, and re-integrating the concept of healing into justice.
Email address: lerman.david@gmail.com

Tola Olu Pearce, Ph.D. is a Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She has a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies, and is a faculty advisor in the Peace Studies Program at MU. She obtained her PhD from Brown University, Rhode Island. Her areas of research are women and health, social inequalities, and development/globalization. She is co-editor of IJCR.
Email address: pearcei@missouri.edu

Jo Ann Vogt is completing her Ph.D. at the University of Missouri in English Language and Linguistics. She was formerly the assistant director of the MU Campus Writing program and is now the Writing Tutorial Services Director of the Campus Writing Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. Ms Vogt has a longstanding interest in Social justice and the MU Peace Studies Program.
Email address: javogt@indiana.edu

Christopher K. Wikle, Ph.D. is a Professor at the University of Missouri in the Department of Statistics, and adjunct Professor in the Department of Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences. He has a co-major PhD from Iowa State University in Statistics and Atmospheric Science. His interests are in spatio-temporal dynamics and hierarchical Bayesian statistical models for complex processes. He has worked on problems in the atmospheric and ocean sciences, as well as ecology, fisheries and wildlife, forestry, and educational testing.
Email address: wiklec@missouri.edu