About the Contributors

Mary Bricker-Jenkins joined KWRU in 1995 and is an honorary member of its War Council. She is also a Professor in the School of Social Administration, Temple University. She and other members of the KWRU Social Work Strategy Subcommittee are available to those interested in this project. Go to www.nasw-pa.org or through the social work page at www.kwru.org for background information, documentation, Rep.Curry's testimony, and the resolution.

Juliana Chang is Assistant Professor of English at Santa Clara University. She has published articles on Asian American literature in MELUS and Contemporary Literature, and is the editor of Quiet Fire: A Historical Anthology of Asian American Poetry, 1892-1970 (Asian American Writers Workshop, 1996).

Dazon Dixon Diallo, MPH is the founder and President of SisterLove, Inc., the first and largest Women's AIDS organization in the Southeast region of the United States. In addition, Dázon is the National Program Director for the Center for Human Rights Education that specializes in women's rights as a human rights issue. As a consultant, Dázon is a senior educator with the WILLOW Study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Emory University and she teaches "Women's Health and Development" in Morehouse School of Medicine's Master of Public Health Program.

Sonia Feigenbaum is currently on leave from her Assistant Professor of Spanish position at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. She has published essays on Cuban and Mexican literature and is presently working on an anthology of Cuban poetry in translation. Dr. Feigenbaum is a Senior Program Officer at a Washington, D.C. government agency

Leslie Hill is Associate Professor of Political Science at Bates College. Her research and teaching interests span the boundaries of Political Science, Women's Studies, and African American Studies, and focus on gender and the state; women, gender, and democratization; and gender and globalization. Dr. Hill's other major area of interest is in curriculum transformation. She speaks and writes about integrating the experiences and perspectives of the world's women into Women's Studies and political science courses.

Andrea Humphrey is co-chair of the New England Studies Association and a lecturer in English at Tufts University. Her focus is eighteenth-century literature of the Caribbean, in particular writings of women across racial and cultural boundaries. She is interested in literature and writing as activism and subversion, particularly in the arenas of race, gender, and sexuality.

Wendy Kozol is Associate Professor and Director of Gender and Women's Studies at Oberlin College. She is the author of Life's America: Family and Nation in Postwar Photojournalism (Temple 1994); and the co-editor (with Wendy Hesford) of Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the 'Real' (University of Illinois Press, 2001). She is currently completing another anthology (with W. Hesford) entitled Just Advocacy: Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminism and the Politics of Representation (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming). Her new research project is Visible Wars and American Nationalism: Militarization and Photography, 1970s to the present.

Harryette Mullen is the author of six books, most recently Blues Baby (Bucknell, 2002) and Sleeping with the Dictionary (University of California, 2002). The latter was a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She teaches courses in English and African American Studies at UCLA.

Mendi Lewis Obadike is the author of Armor and Flesh, which received the Madgett Prize and will be published by Lotus Press. Her new media art has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art and other institutions. She is a Cave Canem fellow. She teaches at Wesleyan University.

Laura H. Roskos is a visiting scholar with Suffolk University's Center for Women's Health and Human Rights where she is doing research for a book on local human rights implementations at the state and municipal levels in the United States. She served as cochair for NEWSA's conference on "International Feminism, Human Rights, and the Women's...