• Handout 1, Biography of William F. Schulz
• Leader Resource 1, William F. Schulz Portrait
• Optional: Microphone
• Optional: Computer and projector

• Copy the handout for all participants.
• Prepare to project Leader Resource 1 or make copies.

Project or distribute copies of Leader Resource 1. Briefly introduce the Rev. Dr. William F. Schulz. Read or convey biographical information using these paragraphs as a guide:

The Rev. Dr. William F. Schulz has celebrity status for all the right reasons. He has taught the world how to practice what we preach. Or as the June, 2002 edition of The New York Review of Books put it, he "has done more than anyone in the American human rights movement to make human rights issues known in the United States." As executive director of Amnesty International, USA from 1994-2006, Schulz traveled hundreds of thousands of miles abroad, leading missions to Liberia, Tunisia, Northern Ireland, and Sudan and visiting places as diverse as Cuba and Mongolia-and he traveled tens of thousands of miles in the United States, spreading the human rights message from campuses to boardrooms to civic organizations. Add to this his frequent guest appearances on television programs like Good Morning America, The Today Show, Hardball, and Nightline and include the books he has written or edited on human rights, and you will know that we are talking about a social justice stellar figure.

An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, Schulz was president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations from 1985 to 1993 before becoming executive director of Amnesty International, USA from 1994 to 2006. He is currently president and CEO of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Born November 14, 1949, in Pittsburgh, Schulz is third generation Unitarian. His father, William F. Schulz, was for 33 years a professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh. His mother, Jean Holman Smith Schulz was a housewife. Schulz's grandfather, also named William F. Schulz, was a professor of physics at the University of Illinois, a member of the Unitarian Church of Urbana, and for 17 years, the church treasurer who invariably paid the church's year-end deficit out of his own pocket. Schulz is married to the Rev. Beth Graham, also a Unitarian Universalist minister.

Distribute Handout 1, which contains more detail about Schulz's life, and invite participants to read it at home.