WILLIAM F. SCHULTZ, President of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, served as Executive Director of Amnesty International USA from 1994-2006 and as President of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations from 1985-93. He is the author of books on human rights,

• In Our Own Best Interest: How Defending Human Rights Benefits Us All; and
• Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights;
• the contributing editor of The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary; and
• The Future of Human Rights: US Policy for a New Era.  

The New York Review of Books said of him in 2002: "William Schulz…has done more than anyone in the American human rights movement to make human rights issues known in the United States."