Our Whole Lives

About the Authors

Our Whole Lives Authors

Elizabeth Casparian, Ph.D., co-author of Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades 4-6 and Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades 10-12, has been a consultant in health and sexuality education for over eleven years, writing and developing teaching materials and videos, and leading training sessions and seminars with adolescents, parents, teachers and other professionals.  Co-author of Filling the Gaps, a book on hard-to-teach topics in human sexuality, she has written and consulted on sexual health issues with universities, public service organizations and schools.  Casparian holds a doctorate in Education Leadership in Human Sexuality from the University of Pennsylvania.

Eva Goldfarb, Ph.D., co-author of Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades 4-6 and Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades 10-12, is an assistant professor in health programs at Montclair State University where she teaches and conducts research in human sexuality, curriculum development, and evaluation of health education programs.  Co-author of Filling the Gaps, a book on hard-to-teach topics in human sexuality, she has over twelve years of experience teaching courses, leading workshops, consulting on media projects, conducting seminars and developing curricula in the areas of human sexuality and sexual health.  Goldfarb holds a doctorate in Human Sexuality Education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Freelance writer and editor Richard Kimball, author of Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Adults, specializes in youth and adult education.  His recent work includes Life Skills Literacy, a series of reproducible books for high school and adult classes; The Winds of Creativity: Finding Fulfillment Through Creative Act and You the Creator, a curriculum for youth and adults.  He has more than two decades of experience as an editor and developer of supplementary educational materials, a teacher of sexuality education courses for young people and a trainer of adult leaders of sexuality education programs.  Kimball holds an M.A. in Journalism.

Barbara Sprung, author of Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades K-1, is co-founder and co-director of Educational Equity Concepts, Inc., a national nonprofit organization that conducts research and develops programs and resources to eliminate bias due to gender, race/ethnicity, disability, and socioeconomic status. She has authored childhood education resources including Learning About Family Life, a K-3 curriculum; Quit It, a K-3 teacher's guide addressing teasing and bullying; and two preteen books, Preteen Pressures: Stress and Preteen Pressures: Death.  Sprung holds a B.A. in Early Childhood Education and an M.A. in Child Development.

Pamela Wilson, M.S.W., author of Our Whole Lives: Sexuality Education for Grades 7-9, has been an independent program consultant and trainer since 1983.  She has developed and led sexuality education programs with youth and families.  She currently trains and develops curricula for educators and counselors on issues of human sexuality and adolescent parenthood.  In addition, Wilson conducts training on diversity issues with nonprofit organizations and corporations.  She is the author of numerous publications, including When Sex Is the Subject: Attitudes and Answers for Young Children.  She is featured in the sexuality education videos Raising Healthy Kids: Families Talk About Sexual Health and Little Questions, Big Questions: The Case for Family Life Education in the Early Grades.

Sexuality and Our Faith Authors

The Reverend Jory Agate, co-author of Sexuality and Our Faith: A Companion to Our Whole Lives Grades 7-9 and Sexuality and Our Faith: A Companion to Our Whole Lives Grades 10-12 served as director of youth programs at the Unitarian Universalist Association from 1992 to 1997, and was a member of the Sexuality Education Task Force, which developed Our Whole Lives. She is currently the minister of religious education at First Parish (Unitarian Universalist) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Judith A. Frediani, author of Sexuality and Our Faith: A Companion to Our Whole Lives for Adults, is the curriculum development director for the Unitarian Universalist Association with responsibility for lifespan programming. A member of the Sexuality Education Task Force, Judith serves as the project editor of the Our Whole Lives curriculum series.

Sarah Gibb, editor of The Advocacy Manual for Sexuality Education, Health and Justice: Resources for Communities of Faith and co-author of Sexuality and Our Faith: A Companion to Our Whole Lives Grades 10-12 served as the outreach coordinator for the Sexuality Education Task Force of the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries from 1997 to 2000.  She is currently studying for the ministry.

The Reverend Patricia Hoertdoerfer, author of The Parent Guide to Our Whole Lives Grades K-1 and Grades 4-6, co-author of Sexuality and Our Faith: A Companion to Our Whole Lives Grades K-1, and co-author of Sexuality and Our Faith: A Companion to Our Whole Lives Grades 4-6, is a Unitarian Universalist minister of religious education. She has been the children's curriculum development director for the Unitarian Universalist Association since 1993. She serves on the Sexuality Education Task Force and is the editor of Our Whole Lives for Grades K-1 and Our Whole Lives for Grades 4-6.

The Reverend Makanah Elizabeth Morriss is a co-author of four of Our Whole Lives's religious supplements: Sexuality and Our Faith: A Companion to Our Whole Lives Grades K-1; Grades 4-6; Grades 7-9; and Grades 10-12. She served as director of the Unitarian Universalist Association's Department of Religious Education from 1992 to 1998, and is a past co-chair of the Sexuality Education Task Force that developed Our Whole Lives. With her husband Bob Morriss, she is currently co-minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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