Nancy Calley, Ph.D., Department of Counseling and Addiction Studies, University of Detroit Mercy, teaches counseling skills, group counseling modalities, case assessment and planning, multicultural counseling and the role of counseling in community organizations. She has extensive experience in clinical supervision, child welfare, and juvenile justice and has developed intensive treatment programs for a wide range of populations, most recently including adolescent substance abusers, sex offenders and violent offenders.

Mirna E. Carranza, B.S.W., M.T.S., is a doctoral candidate, School of Social Work, McMaster University. She is a Registered Marriage & Family Therapist and Clinical Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy.

Jo Lynn Cunningham, Ph.D., Department of Child and Family Studies, University of Tennessee, teaches youth development, research methodology, and family policy and advocacy. Her current research emphasis is on developmental assets needed by individuals to facilitate their development as healthy, caring, and responsible persons. She has recently been using the assets framework as the basis for program evaluation, particularly with faith-based programs for children and youth at risk. She is a Groves Conference board member.

Manijeh Daneshpour, Ph.D., LMFT, AAMFT Approved Supervisor, Department of Educational Leadership and Community Psychology, St. Cloud State University, is coordinator of the Marriage and Family Therapy Post-Master program at St. Cloud State University, teaches graduate courses, is an supervision for Marriage and Family Therapy students, and sees clients in private practice. Her research interests include Muslim families and family therapy, and Muslim feminisms.

Anindita Das is a doctoral student in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Texas Tech University.

Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson, director of exhibitions and research at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, specializes in African arts and the spiritual traditions that continue to influence African American artistic heritage. Trained as an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, he has done research in Benin, Haiti, Brazil, and Louisiana in the fields of African American visual arts and cultural history.

Lee Ann De Reus, Ph.D., Department of Human Development & Family Studies and Women’s Studies, Penn State University Altoona, is co-chair of the 2007 Groves Conference on Marriage and Family and chair of the Feminism and Family Studies Section of the National Council on Family Relations. Her research focuses on women's identity development including the construction of white racial identity and critical race/transnational feminist theories.