Professor Bruce Phillips
Dr. Phillips is Professor of Jewish Communal Service in the School of Jewish Communal Service, HUC-JIR/Los Angeles. He is among the leading sociologists studying the contemporary Jewish community, specializing in the sociology and demography of American Jewry. He has conducted a dozen local Jewish population studies across the United States as well serving on the Technical Advisory Committee for the National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS). His most recent works are the NJPS Report on Intermarriage (forthcoming 2006), “Demographic Profile of American Jewry” (forthcoming 2007).

Professor James Allen
Dr. Allen is Professor of Geography at California State University, Northridge. His research has focused on the changing distributions, migrations, and employment patterns of ethnic groups in the United States. He is co-author with Eugene Turner of Changing Faces, Changing Places: Mapping Southern Californians, an award-winning study that uses both 1990 and 2000 census data to map and analyze racial and Latino population shifts during the 1990s in terms of neighborhoods or census tracts.