Rev. Dr. James Dunn is Executive Director of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, which deals with religious liberty and separation of church and state for nine Baptist conventions and conferences in the United States. A past president of Bread for the World, he has served as a church minister, campus minister and college professor, and for twelve years was Executive Director of the Christian Life Commission of Texas Baptists. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas Wesleyan College, Bachelor of Divinity and Doctor of Theology degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and has done post-doctoral study at the London School of Economics and Political Science changing his Th.D. to a Ph.D. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and The Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy.

Rev. C. William Frampton, III is a life-long Episcopalian who has been working in the HIV/AIDS ministry field for over nine years. Currently, Bill is serving as the Co-Chairperson of the National Episcopal AIDS Coalition and Co-Chairperson of the Council of National Religious AIDS Networks. Past involvement includes Diocese of Pennsylvania AIDS Committee, Chair of the Diocese of New Jersey AIDS Committee as well as a member of the Ryan White Title II Planning Council for the City of Philadelphia. Peace and Justice issues are especially important when it comes to people affected by HIV/AIDS and this is where Bill has spent much of his time. "To love ones neighbor, well, it's the greatest call we have been given and now it may be my mission to show people how."

Bina Frank is President and Executive Director of The River Fund, a non-profit volunteer-based service organization dedicated to serving people in need, especially people with HIV/AIDS and cancer. She is also Executive Director of The River House, a respite for people with life-challenging illnesses as well as the elderly. She has headed The River Fund since its inception and under her direction, River Fund volunteers regularly visit residents at hospitals and hospices around Florida and the United States. She is also president of the Central Florida Chapter of the NAMES Project which is based at The River Fund in Sebastian, Florida.

Dr. Robert Franklin is President of the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) ­ the nation's foremost center of historically African-American religious training and graduate education. He graduated from Morehouse College in political science and religion. He studied internationally at the University of Durham in England, subsequently traveling to North Africa and the Soviet Union. He received an M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago where his major fields of study included social ethics, psychology, and African-American religion. He served on the faculties of his alma maters, the University of Chicago and Harvard divinity schools, and at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School and Candler School of Theology, and Emory University. Prior to ITC, Dr. Franklin was a program officer at the Ford Foundation. He is the author of Liberating Visions: Human Fulfillment and Social Justice in African American Thought, and Another Day's Journey: Black Churches Confront the American Crisis.