(This information is taken from pages 17-19 of the information packet Introducing Our Whole Lives: Sexuality and Our Faith Human Sexuality Education Programs for Children and Youth, United Board for Homeland Ministries and the Unitarian Universalist Association, unknown publication date.)
Elizabeth M. Casparian, Ph.D., co-author of Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades 4-6 and Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades 10-12 is a health and sexuality educator with more than fourteen years of experience leading workshops, seminars, programs and courses in health, human sexuality and sexual health within university settings, public service organizations and schools. She has a doctorate in educational leadership in human sexuality from the University of Pennsylvania.
Eva S. Goldfarb, Ph.D., co-author of Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades 4-6 and Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades 10-12, is an assistant professor in health programs at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. She has more than ten years experience teaching courses, leading workshops, conducting seminars and developing curricula in human sexuality and STD prevention. She holds a doctorate in human sexuality education from the University of Pennsylvania.
The Reverend Patricia Hoertdoerfer, author of The Parent Guide to Our Whole Lives: Grades K-1 and 4-6, co-author of Sexuality and Our Faith: A Companion to Our Whole Lives Grades K-1 (Unitarian Universalist Association companion guide) and Sexuality and Our Faith: A Companion to Our Whole Lives Grades 4-6 (Unitarian Universalist Association companion guide), is a Unitarian Universalist minister of religious education. She has been the Children’s Curriculum Development Director for the Unitarian Universalist Association since 1993. She serves on the Sexuality Education Task Force and is the editor of Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades K-1 and Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades 4-6.
Barbara Sprung, author of Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades K-1, is the co-founder and co-director of Educational Equity Concepts, Inc., a national nonprofit organization that conducts research and develops programs and materials to eliminate bias due to gender, race/ethnicity, disability and socioeconomic status. She is the author of curricula and books for elementary school students, including Learning About Family Life, a K-3 program written to meet the New Jersey state mandate for sexuality education in the early grades. She holds a B.A. in early childhood education and an M.A. in child development.
Pamela M. Wilson, M.S.W., author of Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades 7-9, has more than twenty years of experience designing, implementing and leading programs in sexuality education, diversity, adolescent pregnancy prevention and responsible fatherhood. She is the author of When Sex is the Subject: Attitudes and Answers for Young Children, Families Talk About Sexuality: A Parent/Child Curriculum, Fatherhood Development Curriculum, and a series of pregnancy prevention curricula published by Girls Incorporated. Wilson is a featured expert in the Media Works video Raising Healthy Kids: Families Talk About Sexual Health. She is a past board member of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States.