Danielle Laraque-Arena is a Senior Scholar in Residence at the New York (NY) Academy of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, NY, Former Debra & Leon Black Professor of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Former Vice President Maimonides Children's Hospital of Brooklyn, NY and Chair Department of Pediatrics, Maimonides Medical Center, 7th President, SUNY Upstate Medical University now Emerita, Syracuse, NY, USA. Past President, Academic Pediatric Association.

Lauren Germain is Director of Evaluation, Assessment and Research and Assistant Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Co-Director of Harvard Macy Institute's course, A Systems Approach to Assessment in Health Professions Education.

Virginia Young is a Research Services Librarian specializing in Health and Social Sciences at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY. Prior to that, Presidential and Health Sciences Librarian on the faculty at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY. Graduate of the State University of New York at Albany with a master's degree in library science.

Rivers Laraque-Ho is a Genre-bending, genderbending writer, editor, and perennial work-in-progress. Concerned with the relationship between art, power, and possibility in the revolutionary imagination. Graduated from Hampshire College with a degree in Creative Writing and Critical Race & Gender Studies.