MARILYN AGUIRRE-MOLINA is professor of public health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City. She has served as the executive vice president of the California Endowment and as senior program officer at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

CARLOS W. MOLINA is professor of community health education at York College of the City University of New York. He has served as the executive director of Lincoln Hospital in New York.

RUTH ENID ZAMBRANA is professor of women's studies at the University of Maryland. She was the Elisabeth Shirley Enochs Professor of Child Welfare, Social Work Program at George Mason University.