Robert Sturm has been involved in HIV services since 1983. He worked for three years at Test Positive Aware Network, where he developed two peer support programs and several informational programs for People living with HIV. He has run many workshops on massage, holistic health and spirituality for people infected and affected by HIV in many venues across the country. Robert is currently Coordinator of the Chicago HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI), a program of the AIDS Pastoral Care Network. CHAI provides information about HIV/AIDS to the Chicago area Jewish community and offers programs which support the emotional and spiritual health of Jews affected by HIV/AIDS. Robert is also Clinical Director of Strong Spirit Wellness Center, a program of Illinois Masonic Hospital, where he coordinates programs designed to support the physical, emotional and spiritual health of a diverse clientele, including programs designed specifically for people living with HIV.

Tim Sweeney is the Deputy Director for the Empire State Pride Agenda and Foundation. He has served as the Executive Director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Gay Men's Health Crisis. He has served on the boards of the AIDS Action Council, New York AIDS Coalition, Stonewall Community Foundation and the Royal S. Marks Foundation Fund.

Bishop Tejeda is currently serving in AIDS ministry for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Venice, Florida where he resides. His life has been one of service to the Church and service to humanity as he is not only the former first Bishop of Bani, in the Dominican Republic, but is a Doctor of Medicine as well. Dr. Tejeda received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Santo Domingo in 1956 followed by a pediatrics degree in 1960. He entered the seminary at St. Jerome's College in Kitchner, Ontario in 1960 and graduated with a degree in theology in 1966. Rev. Tejeda was ordained into the Roman Catholic Church priesthood on July 13, 1966 in Elliot Lake, Ontario. He has served as Secretary to the Bishops' Conference of the Dominican Republic. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Bani in 1975, Bishop in 1987 and Bishop Emeritus on December 13, 1997. His commitment to HIV/AIDS is shown by his leadership with Caritas Internationalis as its Vice-President and his membership on its HIV/AIDS task force.

Stephen B. Thomas is an Associate Professor of Community Health in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, and Director of th Institute for Minority Health Research at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University in Atlanta. He has written extensively on the social construction of AIDS in the African American community. He was a consultant to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences Study Committee on Preventing HIV Transmission: The Role of Sterile Needles and Bleach and Reducing the Odds: Preventing Perinatal Transmission of HIV in the United States. He represented Emory University at the White House for the Presidential Apology to Survivors of the Syphilis Study at Tuskegee. His research on the impact of African American AIDS Ministries demonstrates the powerful role of faith communities working in collaboration with community-based organizations, public health, medicine and persons living with HIV disease. Dr. Thomas believes that we must become more skilled in the sue of community-based social change strategies as a primary means to advance health promotion and disease prevention programs that are scientifically sound, ethnically acceptable, and culturally competent.