Marcia Bayne Smith, D.S.W., is associate professor in Urban Studies at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY). She has also taught at Fordham University, New York, and is a national consultant on health policy and program development.

Yvonne J. Graham, R.N., M.P.H., Brooklyn's Deputy Borough President, is founder and past president of the Caribbean Women's Health Association, Inc., Brooklyn, New York. She has served on the Public Health Association of New York City's Board of Directors.

Sally Guttmacher, Ph.D., is Director of the MPH program in Community Public Health at New York University and Past President of the Public Health Association of New York City. She is on the Board of the Caribbean Women's Health Association and is the President Elect of the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine.