Rabbi Daniel Freelander is the National Director of Program for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and coordinates the work of many UAHC program departments, including Adult Jewish Growth, Jewish Family Concerns, Education, Outreach & Synagogue Affiliation, Synagogue Management, Worship, Small Congregations and Music Publications. He also serves as director of the Reform Movement's Joint Commissions on Synagogue Music and Religious Living. Rabbi Freelander has also served as National Associate Director of North American Federation of Temple Youth and as the regional director of 58 synagogues of the New Jersey-West Hudson Valley Council of the UAHC. He lectures on trends in Jewish worship and music, and on communal responses to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Rabbi Freelander holds degrees in Religion and Music from Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and Rabbinic ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York.

Rev. Gadson was ordained in the A.M.E. Church in 1988. In 1987 she founded the GOOD SAMARITAN AIDS MINISTRY at Shorter Community A.M.E. Church. She serves on the Board of the Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York City, is Project Director for HIV/AIDS for Women in Ministry in the A.M.E. Church, and is Secretary of the Board for ANIN. For three years she served as Outreach Coordinator and Program Coordinator for The Balm In Gilead's Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of HIV/AIDS. However, her ultimate ministry was to her eldest son, Craig Daryl Gadson, who lived with the virus of AIDS with courage and dignity until May of 1996.

Dr. Gebbie is the Elizabeth Standish Gill Associate Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing. Her focus of teaching and research is health policy and health services, with particular attention to population-based public health services. She also serves as a Senior Consultant on Public Health Initiatives to the Office of Public Health and Science, US Depatment of Health and Human Services. Dr. Gebbie served as the first National AIDS Policy Coordinator, appointed by President Bill Clinton to oversee the nation's HIV and AIDS agenda in research, services and prevention. Kristine Gebbie has a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from St. Olaf College, a Masters of Nursing from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a Doctor of Public Health in Health Policy from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

Dr. Winter-Green currently directs a clinical practice in Fall River, Massachusetts, is a member of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health ­ AIDS Bureau Leadership Council, and serves as a consultant to national and international agencies and institutions concerned with the AIDS pandemic. Some of Dr. Winter-Green's accomplishments include: Pastoral Consultant with a specialization in biomedical ethics and issues of death and dying while serving as a missionary in India and outback Australia; Roman Catholic missionary in the US Virgin Islands where she built three homeless shelters, and a hospice for persons living with AIDS. She was named Vice-Chancellor of the Dioceses in 1989. Dr. Winter-Green earned a Ph.D. in Pastoral Psychology from the Graduate Theological Foundation, an M.A. in Human Development/Child Psychology from the University of Kansas, and a M.S.W. from the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas, along with several certifications, professional licenses, awards and memberships.