Diverse Additions to Faith-Based Council

President Barack Obama has announced nine new members of the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (which now has a total of 25 members, each appointed to a one-year term). They are:

• Anju Bhargava, founder of Asian Indian Women of America
• Charles Blake, presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ
• Rev. Peg Chemberlin, president-elect of the National Council of Churches USA
• Nathan Diament, director of public policy at the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America
• Harry Knox, director of the Religion and Faith Program at the Human Rights Campaign
• Dalia Mogahed, executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies
• Anthony Picarello, general counsel of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Nancy Ratzan, president of the National Council of Jewish Women
• Sharon Watkins, general minister and president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)