Rabbi Marc Blumenthal serves as Rabbi of Temple Ami Shalom in West Covina, CA. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of AIDS National Interfaith Network and Co-Chair of the AIDS Committee of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He is an advisor to the Los Angeles County HIV/AIDS Prevention Planing Committee, a member of the Board of Directors of Los Angeles Jewish AIDS Services and the Institutional Review Board of Century City Hospital and serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles. He was ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York from which he was awarded a Master of Arts in Hebrew Literature. He earned his undergraduate degree from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

Dr. Jose Ignacio Cabezon was born in Cuba and raised in the United States. He holds a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A Buddhist monk from 1977-1985, he lived and studied for six of those years in the Tibetan Buddhist monastic University of Sera in south India. Dr. Cabezon is author of numerous scholarly books and articles on Buddhism, and in recent years has been one of only a handful of scholars to write on the topics of Buddhism, homosexuality and AIDS/HIV. A former translator for the Dalai Lama, he is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado.

Nancy is ordained clergy within The United Methodist Church, with a Ph.D. in literature and theology from American University in Washington, D.C. She has authored books on other topics, including Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew: Who Do You Say that I Am?, with Bishop Leontine T. C. Kelly.

Nancy Cederberg is the Director of Love & Action Midwest, Inc. The primary goal of Love & Action is to minister to people with AIDS (PWAs) through friendship, spiritual encouragement and fulfillment of practical needs. Another important part of their ministry is to educate and train the church to show those hurting because of AIDS, God's "love" through their "actions." Nancy and her husband, Sven, experienced the death of their 24 year old son, Kent, in 1987. Kent had been "called" to be a missionary but, because of his death, that dream was not realized. Kent's missionary dream is being realized by his parents through their founding and directing a Christian AIDS ministry. Nancy and Sven have appeared on TV (the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour) and radio.