Karen L. Baird is Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York, where she is also Chair of the Political Science Program and past Coordinator of the Women Studies program. She is the author of Gender Justice and the Health Care System (1998), "The New FDA and NIH Medical Research Policies: Targeting Gender, Promoting Justice" (1999), and "Globalizing Reproductive Control: Consequences of the Global Gag Rule" in Linking Visions (2004). Professor Baird has recently been researching HIV/AIDS policies and women of color in the U.S. and is a member of the New York City HIV Prevention Planning Group, and the Interventions Behavioral Science Committee, a working group thereof. Dana-Ain Davis is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. She is also Associate Chair of Worker Education at the Queens College Extension Center, Joseph Murphy Institute.

She is the author of several articles on poverty policy and the book Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2006). Kimberly Christensen is Associate Professor of Economics and Women's Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York, and the immediate past Coordinator of Purchase College's Women's Studies/LGBT Studies Program. Her other publications include "'With Whom Do You Believe Your Lot is Cast?' White Feminists and Racism" (1997), several pieces on welfare "reform," and articles that examine the economic context for, and implications of, the HIV/AIDS crisis. Christensen was a member of the ACT UP/NY editorial collective that wrote and produced Women, AIDS Activism (1990).