Min-Jung Jung is a graduate student in the Department of Child and Family Studies, University of Tennessee.

Leslie Koepke, Ph.D., Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Stout, President of the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family and served on the Board of Directors of the National Council on family Relations from 2002-2005. She teaches courses in School Age and Adolescent Development, Culturally Distinct Child and Family, Professional Issues in Human Development and Family Studies. Research interests include culturally diverse families, adolescent development, and work/family policy.

Edith A. Lewis, Ph.D., School of Social Work, University of Michigan, focuses on methods used by women of color to offset personal, familial, community and professional role strain. She has studied strengths within African-American women's communities, the intersections of gender and ethnicity in the lives of women of color, outcomes of an intervention project for pregnant substance-dependent women, multiple role strains for faculty women of color, multicultural organizational development, and successful methods used by Ghanaian women in community development projects.

Kevin P. Lyness, Ph.D., LMFT, Department of Applied Psychology, Antioch University New England, is director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program and formerly assistant editor of the Journal of Marriage and Family Therapy. Currently an AAMFT Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor and formerly a Certified Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselor, his research interests include addictions treatment, adolescent development, and the process of family therapy.