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Rachelle Barina is a PhD candidate in the Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. Her primary research emphases are in theological ethics and Catholic health care.

Françoise Baylis is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy at Dalhousie University. Much of her work in bioethics, including this work on conscience, focuses on the intersection of policy and practice.

Robyn Bluhm is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and codirector of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Her research examines philosophical issues in science and medicine, with a particular focus on the relationship between ethical and epistemological questions arising in medical research or clinical practice.

Sidney Callahan, PhD, is a social psychologist and author who works in the intersection of psychology and moral theology. She has written many books, articles, and columns and held academic posts at Fairfield University, Mercy College, and Georgetown University.

Julie Daoud is a professor of literature at Thomas More College. As a specialist in postcolonial literature, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the American Center of Overseas Research in Amman, Jordan. A literature professor by [End Page 222] training, she offers a range of courses in literary studies, most of them interdisciplinary. As the director of the college’s Writing and ESL Center, she recently published an article for Composition and Computers, Online reflecting her interest in the integration of technology into the teaching of writing.

Susan Dodds is deputy provost, dean of the Faculty of Arts, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Tasmania. She has been a long-term member of the FAB board and has served as FAB co-coordinator. She has published widely in political philosophy, moral philosophy, and applied ethics (especially feminist bioethics). Her work focuses on the intersection of political philosophy, feminist theory, and applied ethics. Her most recent book, coedited with Catriona Mackenzie and Wendy Rogers, is Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy.

Carolyn Ells is an associate professor of medicine, member of the Biomedical Ethics Unit, and associate member of the Division of Experimental Medicine at McGill University, and research associate of the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, both in Montreal, Canada. She has prior experience as a health professional and a clinical ethicist. Her research has two foci: patient-centered care theory and its implementation in practice and research ethics review policy. She is immediate past co-coordinator of FAB, having served on its advisory board in various capacities since 2001.

Martina Ferrari is a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Oregon. She earned her MA in philosophy and social policy at American University, where she taught as an adjunct instructor. Her interests include continental philosophy, feminist philosophy, and critical race philosophy, focusing on the philosophy of the body and embodiment as it is marked by gender, social class, and race.

Ann Garry is a professor emerita of philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. She recently enjoyed a Fulbright at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Since the 1970s, she has been active in writing and teaching feminist philosophy and in founding the institutions of feminist philosophy in the United States, including Hypatia. She is one of the editors of the feminist philosophy section of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and coeditor of Women, Knowledge and Reality and the forthcoming Routledge Companion to [End Page 223] Feminist Philosophy. Her articles range from feminist issues in bioethics, pornography, and philosophy of law to intersectionality, analytic feminist epistemology, and philosophical method.

Alana Ghent is an associate professor and the director of the theater program at Eastern Kentucky University. Her creative work in acting and directing includes a passion for new works, underrepresented voices, and community building through theater. She has shared her work at the conference of the Kentucky Theatre Association and the South Eastern Theatre Conference.

Helen Bequaert Holmes cofounded FAB in 1992. She now resides in a retirement community and works with seniors on ethical issues and climate change. With degrees in chemistry and zoology, as well as a PhD in genetics (University of...

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