Donald Rothberg is one of the major teachers and writers on socially engaged Buddhism in the United States. He is a meditation teacher on the Spirit Rock Teachers' Council in northern California and has been an organizer, teacher, and board member for the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. Rothberg also...

Shelley Rotner is an award-winning author and photo illustrator of more than fifty books for young readers. With a background as an elementary school teacher, museum educational specialist, and UNICEF photographer, Rotner is also a noted freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared in Time...

James (Chip) Roush co-founded "Undoing Racism at Meadville-Lombard: a Committee for Honesty, Education and Reconciliation" at the Unitarian Universalist seminary in Chicago. He serves as the senior minister to the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Grand Traverse, in Traverse City, Michigan.

Isabel Roxas is an illustrator, graphic designer, and traveler. She lives in Queens, New York.

Masha Rumer is an award-winning journalist and freelance writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Quartz, the Moscow Times, Parents.com, SFWeekly, Volume 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. An immigrant from the former Soviet Union, she now lives with her family in...

Ji Ruoxiao was honored at the First National Art Exhibition of Chinese Landscape Painting with the Selected Work Award, and she received the Maple Leaf Award at the Oriental Sumi Art Exhibition....

Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen previous novels, including Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, and Quichotte, all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of...

James W. Russell is the author of eight books, including Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States....

Jennifer Ruth is associate dean in the College of the Arts and professor in the School of Film at Portland State University....

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg is an award-winning author and writer. She serves as Scholar in Residence at the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW). Ruttenberg was named by Newsweek and The Daily Beast as one of 10 “rabbis to watch;” as one of 21 “faith leaders to watch” by the Center for...

David Rynick is a life and leadership coach. He is a member of the First Unitarian Church of Worcester, Massachusetts, and one of the founders and guiding teachers of the Boundless Way Zen community.

Jane Ranney Rzepka is the author of A Small Heaven and Thematic Preaching and former minister of congregations in Winchester and Reading, Massachusetts, as well as the Church of the Larger Fellowship. She taught preaching at Harvard Divinity School for a number of years.

A third generation UU, Toby Rzepka grew up as the minister’s kid at the UU Church of Reading, Massachusetts, and went on to work for the Church of the Larger Fellowship. Visit his wesite at Toby Rzepka.

Victoria Safford is the minister at of White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Walking Toward Morning, the 2003 UUA Meditation Manual and With or Without Candlelight: A Meditation Anthology. Both are published by Skinner House Books.

Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist whose print and broadcast work has appeared on the BBC and in the Guardian, New Scientist, Wired, the Economist, and Science. A former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, she won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s...

Buffy Sainte-Marie is a world-renowned and Academy Award-winning Cree singer–songwriter, activist, educator, and visual artist. Her other books for kids include Hey Little Rockabye, illustrated by Ben Hodson, and T∾irc;pw≖c; and the Magic Hat.

Komako Sakai lives in Japan and studied art in Tokyo. She is one of the most popular children’s illustrators in Japan and winner of the Japanese Picture Book Prize, and her books are published throughout the world.

Aida Salazar is an award-winning author and arts activist whose writings for adults and children explore issues of identity and social justice....

C. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary humanities scholar who is fascinated by the historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and cross-cultural exchange....

A lifelong Unitarian Universalist, the Reverend Anya Sammler-Michael is a graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School where she concentrated on theology and ethics. Rev. Anya is married to Rev. Scott Sammler-Michael. Rev. Anya is dedicated to interfaith work and deepening our efforts of...

Ana Sampson edits poetry anthologies for both children and adults and often gives talks in bookshops, libraries, schools and at literary festivals about poetry, women’s writing and publishing.

Sonia Sanchez-award-winning poet, activist, scholar, and formerly the Laura Carnell professor of English and women's studies at Temple University-is the author of sixteen books, including Like the Singing Coming off the Drums, Does Your House Have Lions?, Wounded in the House of a Friend, and Sha...

ROB SANDERS is a writer who teaches, and a teacher who writes. He is the author of Cowboy Christmas, Crystal Kite-winner Outer Space Bedtime Race, Ruby Rose – Off to School She Goes, Ruby Rose – Big Bravos, and Rodzilla. Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag is Rob’s first...

Jon Sands is the author of The New Clean and the cohost of The Poetry Gods podcast. His work has been featured in the New York Times and anthologized in The Best American Poetry. He’s received residencies and fellowships from the Blue Mountain Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Council of...