Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is Director of Retirement Security at the Economic Policy Institute and Senior Advisor at the Rock Creek Group. She founded the Center for Retirement Security at Georgetown University. She has served with distinction in both the private and public arenas. She was Maryland's first woman Lt. Governor, and served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States. Prior to serving at the Department of Justice, Ms. Townsend led the fight to make Maryland the first--and only--state to make service a high school graduation requirement. She Chaired the Institute of Human Virology, the Robert Kennedy Memorial and served on a number of boards including the Export-Import Bank and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. An honors graduate of Harvard University, Ms. Townsend received her law degree from the University of New Mexico where she was a member of the law review. She has received fourteen honorary degrees. Ms. Townsend's book, "Failing America's Faithful: How Today's Churches Mixed God with Politics and Lost Their Way" has been published by Warner Books in March 2007.