Rev. Dr. Hicks is the Senior Pastor of First Trinity Lutheran Church in Washington, D.C. Previously, he served as Bishop of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Assistant to the Bishop, Illinois Synod, Lutheran Church in America; Co-Pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, East Orange, New Jersey; and Pastor of Concordia Lutheran Church, Buffalo, New York. He has served as President of the Interfaith Council for the Homeless (Chicago), President of AIDS National Interfaith Network; Trustee of Carthage College; Board member of Lutheran Social Services of Illinois; and President of the Council of Religious Leaders (Chicago). Rev. Hicks received a B.A. from Wittenberg University, an M.Div. from Hamma School of Theology; and a D.D. from Carthage College, Elmhurst College and Wittenberg University.

Rev. Dr. Robert Howerton, Jr. is the Assistant General Secretary of Health and Welfare Ministries to the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church assuming responsibilities as Executive Director of the Health and Welfare Ministries Program Department. He was an Army Chaplain for 23 years and attained the rank of Colonel. He was Staff Chaplain of the U.S. Army Health Services at Ft. Sam Houston and supervised the Religious Ministry Team and chaplain personnel in all Army medical activities in the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii and Panama. He joined Methodist Health Systems in 1981 and served as Senior Vice-President of the Health and Welfare Division of Methodist Health Systems and Hospitals of Memphis. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hendrix College and a Master of Theology from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University and served a one-year Clinical Residency in Clinical Pastoral Education at the National Institutes of Health. He received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Rust College in Mississippi where he serves on the Board of Trustees.

Dr. Hunt lives in Silver Spring, MD where she enjoys cooking, swimming and golf.

Rev. Phil Jamison serves as a National Co-Moderator of the Presbyterian AIDS Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and Chair of the Pittsburgh Presbytery Special Committee on AIDS. He is a founding member of the AIDS Interfaith Care Team Program of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Rev. Jamison works presently as a Bereavement Counselor and Pastor of McGinnis Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, PA. He worked for several years as an AIDS Specialist in a community-based organization in mental health care for persons with HIV/AIDS and their loved ones. He is a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ and Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia.