Bill Taverner, M.A., C.S.E., is the executive director of the nationally acclaimed Center for Family Life Education and is the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Sexuality Education. He has co-authored many sex ed teaching resources, including Making Sense of Abstinence; Older, Wiser, Sexually Smarter; Sex Ed 101; Streetwise to Sex-Wise and seven editions of Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Human Sexuality. Bill's newest publication is the two-volume third edition of Teaching Safer Sex, for which he serves as editor-in-chief. A trainer of thousands throughout the United States, who has twice advocated for sexuality education at U.S. Congressional briefings, Bill has received national awards recognizing his leadership in sexuality education, including the first "Schiller Prize" given by the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists for best workshop using interactive strategies and the "Golden Apple Award," given by the Association for Planned Parenthood Taverner speaking at U.S. Congressional briefing, 2008 Leaders in Education. In an award given by the online journal Sexual Intelligence, Bill was named "one of the country's pre- eminent sex educators, trainers, and sex education theorists."