Alejandro Aguilera-Titus is the Interim Executive Director of the Secretariat for Hispanic Affairs, USCCB. He has more than twenty four years of experience in ministry with a strong emphasis on leadership development and formation. Mr. Aguilera-Titus is a nationally known speaker and writer highly regarded for his practical application of theological thought to pastoral ministry and formation. He holds a M.A. in Theology from the University of Portland and a B.A. in Communications with a minor in Philosophy from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He is co-author of the series Prophets of Hope, St. Mary' s Press, and contributing editor of Liturgia y Canción, Oregon Catholic Press. He shares and intercultural family with his wife Mary and their three children.

Stephen Beirne has thirty years experience working in family life ministry in Missouri and Maine.  For 15 years he has been involved in publishing a newsletter for newlyweds. His BA in philosophy is from Providence College and his MA in Catechetical Theology is from Manhattan College. He and his wife have been married for 40 years, and they have raised seven children.

Florence Bourg (Ph.D., Boston College) is author of Where Two or Three Are Gathered: Christian Families as Domestic Churches (University of Notre Dame Press). Her articles and reviews on theology of marriage and family have appeared in Horizons, Concilium, INTAMS Review, Theological Studies, and the College Theology Society Annual Volume. Dr. Bourg taught at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati before returning ‘home'  to New Orleans. She now teaches at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, and has been a visiting professor at Loyola University and Springhill College. Dr. Bourg has been married 18 years and has 4 children.

Judy Clark is Director of Family & Adult Ministry and Counseling Services at St. Mark the Evangelist Parish, Plano, TX. She and her husband, George, have served in marriage ministry for over 30 years. Judy is a licensed professional counselor. She is a member of the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers.

Bill Coffin is the Special Assistant for Marriage Education in the Administration for Children and Families (HHS).  In recognition of his work he was awarded the 2006 Smart Marriages Impact Award.  Bill has served as the Marriage Preparation Coordinator for the Archdiocese of Washington and as a consultant to the U.S. Bishops Committee on Marriage and Family Life.  He co-authored a book chapter on Preventive Interventions for Couples.  Bill is a graduate of Fairfield University in CT and has two master’s degrees, one in Human Relations, and one in Counseling.  Bill and Pat have been married for 38 years. They have four children and four grandchildren.

Paul Covino is Associate Chaplain and Director of Liturgy at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts and Adjunct Staff Member of the Georgetown Center for Liturgy. He is the editor and principal author of the wedding workbook “Celebrating Marriage” (Pastoral Press) and served on the U.S. bishops' task group for adaptations to the revised “Order for Celebrating Marriage.” He has led many workshops for engaged couples and pastoral ministers and authored numerous articles on the celebration of the wedding liturgy.

Cynthia S. Dobrzynski currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers. She has worked in schools, parishes, and at the diocesan level. Cynthia gives talks and workshops on various topics including marriage, family life, spirituality, and lifelong faith formation,. She is also a spiritual director and a contributing author for Lifelong Faith, a journal of faith formation. Cynthia served on the planning committee for “Working in the Vineyard of the Lord: A National Symposium on Lay Ecclesial Ministry” held in August 2007 at St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN. She holds an MA in Pastoral Ministry from Boston College in church leadership and liturgy and worship and a post-Master’s Certificate in the Practice of Spirituality.

Sheila Garcia has been with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for the past 18 years, where she is Associate Director of the Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth. She works primarily on issues related to marriage and family and women, including women’s leadership in the church and domestic violence. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Ohio University and a master's degree from De Sales School of Theology in Washington, D.C. She and her husband Bob have two adult sons.

Julie Hanlon Rubio is currently Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at St. Louis University, where she has taught courses in marriage, sexual ethics, religion and politics, and social justice since 1999. She earned her M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School in 1991 and her Ph.D. in Religion and Social Ethics from the University of Southern California in 1995. Her articles have appeared in Theological Studies, the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Josephinum Journal of Theology, and Horizons. Her first book, A Christian Theology of Marriage and Family (Paulist Press, 2003) received a Catholic Press Association award. She is currently working on a monograph on family ethics and co-editing a volume on marriage with Charles Curran.

Jim Healy has been the director of The Center for Family Ministry of the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, since 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Illinois in 1985. He has spoken on marriage topics in over 60 dioceses, and his marriage materials, most notably his Living Together and Christian Commitment materials and his How to Get Married and Stay Engaged, are used throughout the country. Jim was given the NACFLM Ministry Award in 2000. He lives in Joliet with his wife Madonna and their four children.

Leif Kehrwald has worked in family ministry and faith formation on the parish, diocesan, and national levels for over twenty-five years. Currently he serves as Project Coordinator for Family and Intergenerational Services for the Center for Ministry Development. Leif has published several books and numerous articles on family life, family ministry, marriage, and youth ministry. His latest book is Families and Faith: A Vision and Practice for Parish Leaders (Twenty-Third Publications, 2006).

Andrew Lyke is the Executive Director of Arusi Network, Inc., a not-for-profit organization that focuses on the strengthening of marriage in the African American community through education, consultation, coaching and spiritual retreats. He is also the Coordinator of Marriage Ministry for the Archdiocese of Chicago. With his wife, Terri, he has nationally presented keynote addresses, workshops, retreats and seminars on marriage and family issues to church, community and business audiences. They have written articles for local and national publications. Terri and Andrew regularly write for Catholic News Service's “Faith Alive” publication. Their biweekly column, “Family Reflections,” was regularly featured in several Catholic diocesan newspapers around the United States from 1994 to 2003.

Bonnie Mack is a part-time program coordinator of marriage preparation and enrichment in the Cincinnati Archdiocese, on staff since 1991. In addition, she coordinates programs for newly-married and interchurch couples (Catholic/Protestant) in the archdiocese. She has a B.A. from Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH, and taught high school prior to joining the Cincinnati Family Life Office. She and her husband Tom have been married since 1969 and have 3 grown children and 5 grandchildren.

David M. McCarthy teaches at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He is an associate professor of theology and the Fr. James M. Forker Professor of Catholic Social Teaching. He is the editor of Gathered for the Journey: Moral Theology in Catholic Perspective, and he is the author of Sex and Love in the Home: A theology of the Household and The Good Life. He lives in Emmitsburg with his wife Bridget and their children.

Howard Richard (Rick) McCord is a senior staff member at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. His duties include project development for the Committee on Marriage and Family Life. He has served the Catholic Church in professional capacities for 35 years at parish, diocesan and national levels. He holds graduate degrees in theology and education. His published work has appeared in various professional and popular publications. He is currently directing the Bishops multi-year National Pastoral Initiative for Marriage. He and his wife, Denise, have been married for 31 years. They are parents of an adult son, Andrew.

Tim Muldoon is a theologian, professor, and author of three books and a number of popular and scholarly essays. His next book Seeds of Hope: Young Adults and the Catholic Church in the United States will be released by Paulist Press in Spring, 2008.  He was the inaugural Director of The Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College from 2005 to 2007, and now serves as Assistant to the Vice President for University Mission and Ministry, and teaches in the College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. His dissertation at Duquesne University (1998) focused on the understanding of sexuality in the Catholic doctrine on marriage. He and his wife Suzanne have been married for fourteen years and have two daughters, both by adoption.

Don Paglia is co-Director, with wife, Christine, of the Hartford Connecticut Catholic Archdiocesan Family Life Office. Don and Chris are founding members of NACFLM, and Don is a past president. Don is a marriage and family therapist for the past 28 years, has Advanced Graduate Training in Marriage and Family Therapy and Gestalt Therapy, and is a member of the National Registry of Marriage Friendly Therapists. He conducts numerous workshops and programs for clergy, lay leaders, individuals and couples, as well as business leaders throughout the United States and also in Ireland. Don and Chris provide marriage preparation, marriage enrichment, family ministry and programming for population of 800,000 Catholics and 210 parishes in Connecticut. Don is also known to occasionally do stand-up comedy and humorous workshops for marriage enrichment throughout the U.S., called: Msgr. Dominic Primo Vera Explains Marriage. Don and Chris are married 38 years, 6 children, and 8 grandchildren.

William P. Roberts is Professor of Theology at the University of Dayton. His principal areas of concentration are Christology, Sacramental Theology, Christian Marriage, and Christian Family Values and the Media. He is the author of eleven books, and editor of four. He has also authored over sixty-five articles and book reviews. His most recent book is Marriage: It's a God Thing, published by St. Anthony Messenger Press (2007).

Jonathan Y. Tan (Ph.D. in Religion and Culture, Catholic University of America) is an Assistant Professor of Religion and Culture at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio.  Before that, he taught at The Catholic University of America and was Assistant Editor of The New Catholic Encyclopedia, Second Edition (2003). With generous financial support from the Louisville Institute, which awarded him the 2005 First Book Grant for Minority Scholars, he has recently completed his first book, Introducing Asian American Theologies, to be published by Orbis Books in 2008.

David M. Thomas has a Ph.D. in Systematic and Historical Theology from the University of Notre Dame. He is the past director of the graduate program in family ministry and adult Christian community development at Regis University in Denver, where he taught for 20 years. Currently he is the co-director of the Bethany Family Institute (UK and USA), associate director of the graduate program in family ministry and faith formation at Dominican University (just outside Chicago), and coordinator of instruction for the deacon formation program for the Diocese of Helena, Montana. Liturgical Press recently published his latest book, Christian Marriage: The New Challenge.

(Deacon) Bill Urbine D. Min., LMFT is the President of the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministries and the Director of the Office of Family Life Ministries for the diocese of Allentown, PA. He is also an adjunct instructor of theology at DeSales University, Center Valley, PA and for the graduate psychology program of Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.

Lee Williams is Professor in the Marital and Family Therapy Program at the University of San Diego. He is also a licensed Marital and Family Therapist, and an Approved Supervisor in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He has published several journal articles and book chapters, primarily in the areas of interchurch couples, marriage preparation, and family therapy training/supervision. He is also a co-author of Essential Skills in Family Therapy, a popular text for beginning family therapists.