Gloria Albrecht, Ph.D., Department of Religious Studies, University of Detroit Mercy, teaches business and economic ethics, feminist ethics and theology, and women's studies. Her research and presentations deal with issues of community, economic justice, women's issues, and epistemology in ethics, particularly economic paradigms as challenged by women's work. She is an ordained Presbyterian minister.

Katherine R. Allen, Ph.D., Department of Human Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, is a faculty affiliate in the Virginia Tech Center for Gerontology and in Women's Studies. Her current research focuses on feminist and critical race pedagogy, aging and gender in families, college students’ perceptions about sexuality, family diversity and older adults, parenthood and adoption in diverse families, persistence of women in computer related majors, and sibling ties in midlife. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and the National Council on Family Relations.

Anan Ameri, Ph.D., director of the Arab American National Museum, a project of
the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS).  Dr. Ameri has over 30 years of experience promoting Arab and Arab American humanities and arts programming. From 1984-1993, she served as the Executive Director and National President of the Palestine Aid Society of America. She is co-author of Arab Americans in Metro-Detroit: A Pictorial History (2001) and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 1996.

Rhonda Anderson, regional representative for the Sierra Club/Detroit, is an organizer with the Sierra Club’s environmental-justice program. Because many Detroit youth show the effects of growing up in a toxic environment, she works to expose the hidden connections between social and environmental ills.

Bonnie S. Arnone, Ed.D., is an educator and history teacher who lives and works in Lake Park, Florida.