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Ashe is the legislative and policy director of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project at Columbia Law School, a think tank focused on developing legal and policy solutions to tensions that arise when religious liberty guarantees conflict with other fundamental rights to equality and justice under the Constitution. McGovern's writing has been featured in The Nation, NPR, Huffington Post, The Advocate and ThinkProgress, among other sites.

Charles E. Cobb Jr. is a distinguished journalist, educator and activist. As a field secretary with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) he originated the idea of freedom schools as a part of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. He began his journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for WHUR Radio in Washington, DC. In 1976 he joined the staff of National Public Radio as a foreign affairs reporter, bringing to that network its first regular coverage of Africa. From 1985 to 1997 Cobb was a National Geographic staff member. He is the coauthor, with civil rights organizer