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Richard Cizik is president and co-founder of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, an organization committed to a holistic and moral vision for evangelical engagement. As an Open Society Fellow, Cizik worked to bring evangelicals, policymakers, and activists together to address climate change, immigration, and criminal justice challenges.

From 2008-2010, he served as co-chair of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Taskforce on Religion and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy, whose mission is to advance understanding of the role of religion in world affairs. Cizik served for ten years as vice president for governmental affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals, a post he left in 2008 after expressing support for civil unions. A participant in Climate Forum 2002, at Oxford, England, which produced the "Oxford Declaration" on global warming, Cizik was instrumental in creating the Evangelical Climate Initiative. In 2008 he was named to Time Magazine's list of the "Time 100" most influential people, and in 2006, Fast Company placed him on its list of "Most Creative Minds."

Cizik has written over 100 articles and editorials and is the author and editor of The High Cost of Indifference (Regal Books).