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Susan Katz Miller is an author and a former Newsweek reporter. Her book Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family (2013) chronicles the grassroots movement of interfaith families choosing to educate children about both family religions. Being Both is based on ten years of research, original surveys, and interviews with parents, grown children, clergy, and interfaith educators. Miller's October 2013 op-ed for the New York Times on raising children with both religions received more than 600 comments. Her work has also been featured in NPR's All Things Considered, Diane Rehm Show, Time, Utne Reader, Slate, Salon, Jewish Daily Forward, and many other media outlets. Miller blogs on interfaith families and complex religious identity at Huffington Post and at OnBeingBoth.com. She is a former co-chair of the Board of the Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington DC.

Erika B. Seamon is a visiting assistant professor in Georgetown's American Studies Program and specializes in the role of religious pluralism in American public life. Her research centers primarily on marriage and education, two arenas that not only take different forms in different religious communities, but also straddle secular-religious and public-private aspects of American life. Her book Interfaith Marriage in America: The Transformation of Religion and Christianity (2012) explores the historical foundations as well as contemporary dynamics of religious intermarriage in the United States. Seamon’s recent journal articles include: “Protecting Religious Liberty” in Oxford’s Journal of Church & State and “A Healthy Tension? The Encounter of Religious Society and Secular Law in American Political Life” in Forum Mission. She holds degrees in theological and religious studies, social and public policy, and business administration. Seamon previously was a partner at Kuczmarski & Associates, Inc. and taught at the University of Chicago.