Gary and Joy are the authors of the bestselling books on relationships: I Don’t Have to Make Everything All Better  and Married for Better, Not Worse: The 14 Secrets to a Happy Marriage. The Lundbergs have appeared on numerous radio and TV talk shows throughout the United States.

Gary Lundberg is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

Joy Lundberg is an accomplished lyricist and has written over 170 published songs with composer Janice Kapp Perry. Their new song, Save the Family, was written to inspire people worldwide to help protect marriage and the family.

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Dr. Shirley Cox received her doctorate in Social Work University of Utah. She currently teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Social Work Administration, Ethics, Community Development, Social Welfare Programs & Services and Field Practicum. She is also the Director of the Field Practicum Program in the School of Social Work. Dr. Cox's research is primarily the area of International Field Work Social Work Program Development. She has served in local, state, national, and international, offices for The National Association of Social Workers and is a member of the LDS Family Services Board.

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David C. Dollahite, Ph.D. is Professor and Associate Director in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University where he is also an Eliza R. Snow Fellow. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Dominican University of California, and will be a visiting scholar at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India in 2005. His scholarship focuses on religion and family life in the Abrahamic faiths and on Latter-day Saint family life. He is on the Utah Governor’s Commission on Marriage and past president of the Utah Council on Family Relations. Together, he and his wife Mary parent seven terrific kids.

Cory W. Leonard is assistant director of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University. He is responsible for lectures and conferences as publications and graphics, advisement, and external relations. In 2003 he was named as outreach coordinator for a $1.2 million US Department of Education Title VI grant for Western Europe. In addition, he teaches courses dealing with international studies, cross-cultural issues, and diplomacy, including BYU's nationally-ranked Model United Nations program. Over the past seven years he has attended United Nations conferences in New York, Geneva, Dakar, Nairobi, Durban, Bangkok and elsewhere as a representative of the World Family Policy Center.

Richard G. Wilkins is a Professor of Law and Managing Director of the World Family Policy Center at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. He is a former Assistant to the Solicitor General, United States Department of Justice.

Professor Wilkins has written extensively on constitutional law, international law, family policy, federal jurisdiction and legal advocacy. In 1997, he established the World Family Policy Center. The Center hosts the annual World Family Policy Forum to analyze and discuss international family policy issues. The Forum is attended by United Nations Diplomats, government representatives, opinion leaders and scholars from around the world.

Most recently, Professor Wilkins served as Chair of the NGO Working Committee of the Doha International Conference for the Family, organizing a series of interdisciplinary meetings on questions of family policy in major cities around the world. The Conference negotiated and adopted the Doha Declaration, which reaffirms the international community’s commitments to the natural family. The Declaration was noted by the UN General Assembly at its December 6, 2004, Special Session on the International Year of the Family.

Professor Wilkins has presented papers at conferences in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and South America and Scandinavia. He has taught a course on international human rights in Beijing, China, and has made presentations to numerous UN bodies and commissions, including the UN General Assembly, the Commission on Social Development and the Commission on Human Settlements. He has testified before legislative panels in Australia, the European Union, Sweden and the United States and has assisted various governmental and non-governmental advisory committees on issues related to the new Constitution for the European Union.

Professor Wilkins is married to Melany Moore Wilkins, who holds a Masters Degree in Social Work. They are the parents of four children and have one grandchild.

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Marya Reed, the World Family Policy Center’s Administrative Director, has been with the Center since 1998. She received an accounting degree from Arizona State University and a J.D. from the J. Reuben Clark Law School, BYU in 2003. Marya is the Center’s main representative for U.N. Aging, Habitat, HIV/AIDS, Sustainable Development, in New York, Chengdu, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Nairobi, and Bali.