Tom Head serves as civil liberties guide for About.com, a division of the New York Times Company. His many other titles include Crime and Punishment in America (Facts on File 2008), and What is the State of Human Rights? (ed. Farmington Hills). He presently serves as Secretary of the Mississippi chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), as director of communications for the LGBTQ/allied group Unity Mississippi, and as an active volunteer with the Mississippi chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).