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Association for Religious Freedom, the oldest international
interfaith organization in the world. Throughout his career he
has been outspoken in his opposition to the death penalty and
his support for women's rights, gay and lesbian rights and
racial justice, having organized, participated in demonstrations
and written extensively on behalf of all four causes.

Dr. Schulz has served on the boards of People for the
American Way, Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
the Communitarian Network and Americans United for the
Separation of Church and State, among others. He is currently
a member of the International Advisory Committee for the
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.

He has appeared frequently on radio and television, including
=9360 Minutes,=94 =9320/20,=94 =93The Today Show,=94 =93Good Morning,
America,=94 =93All Things Considered,=94 =93Talk of the Nation,=94
=93ABC World News,=94 =93Larry King Live,=94 =93Nightline,=94
=93Politically Incorrect,=94 and on the BBC, CNN, MSNBC,
CNBC, FOX News and Bloomberg News. He has published
and is quoted widely in newspapers and magazines, including
the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian
Science Monitor, the New York Review of Books, The
Nation, The National Interest and Parade and is the author of
several books, including Finding Time and Other Delicacies,
Transforming Words: Six Essays on Preaching and Making the
Manifesto: The Birth of Religious Humanism. In April 2001
his latest book entitled In Our Own Best Interests: How
Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All was published by
Beacon Press. An expert on national and international civil and
political rights, and human rights records worldwide, Bill=92s
latest book, entitled Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of
Human Rights, was published in September 2003. With the
reasoned arguments, moving stories and surprising statistics,
Tainted Legacy provokes a heated debate about the fate of
human rights in an era of terrorism.

A familiar speaker at colleges and universities, Dr. Schulz has
delivered lectures at the Yale Political Union, Oxford
University, McGill, Columbia, Penn, Northwestern and many
others and taught a seminar on the role of religion in
international social and political conflict at Harvard
University's John F. Kennedy School of Government (Institute
of Politics) in the fall of 1993. He is a frequent speaker at
World Affairs Council meetings, before corporate groups and
in international settings and is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations.

He has received the 2002 Human Rights Award from
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, the Harry S. Truman
Award for International Leadership from the Kansas City, MO,
United Nations Association, the Cranbrook Peace Award from
the Cranbrook Peace Foundation, the Humanitarian Award
from Marylhurst University in Portland, OR and been honored
by those from one end of the religious spectrum to another,
having been named one of the =93World=92s 365 Most Influential
People=94 by the The Pray 365 Project and chosen =93Humanist of
the Year=94 by the American Humanist Association in 2000.

Dr. Schulz is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College,
holds a master=92s degree in philosophy from the University of
Chicago and the Doctor of Ministry degree from Meadville
[pronounced =93Meed-vil=94]/Lombard Theological School (at the
University of Chicago). He was awarded an honorary D. D.
from Meadville/Lombard in 1987 and an honorary L. H. D.
from Nova Southeastern University in 1995. He is listed in
Who=92s Who in America and Who=92s Who in the East.

He is married to the Rev. Beth Graham, also a Unitarian
Universalist minister, and they live on Long Island where Ms.
Graham serves a congregation. Dr. Schulz has two grown
children from a previous marriage.



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