Colleen Cordes is Executive Director of Psychologists for Social Responsibility.

Shirley J. Jones is a Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Albany . She has also initiated and organized annual international study tours to African nations to promote African and American collaborations for planned change and development.

Tosha Link is Executive Director of Community Harvest in Washington , DC , which promotes "good food for all" by creating a locally rooted, sustainable food system that meets the needs of low-income communities and small farmers in the region. Community Harvest operates an urban demonstration mini-farm that educates schoolchildren, trains youth leaders on issues of action to combat hunger and food and environmental injustices, and networks with small farmers to connect them with food security issues.

Penny Newman is Executive Director of the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice in Riverside , California . Penny's experience in community organizing and policy advocacy arose from her role as the Chair of Concerned Neighbors in Action, a community group focused on the health and safety issues posed by the Stringfellow Acid Pits, a site on the Federal Superfund list. She has also worked with communities across the nation as Western Field Organizer for the Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste.

Langdon Winner is a professor of political science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and co-director of the Center for Cultural Design.  His work includes Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought (MIT Press, 1978), and The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (University of Chicago Press, 1998).

 

Rick Worthington, Chair, is Professor of Politics at Pomona College in Claremont , California , and the author of Rethinking Globalization: Production, Politics, Actions (Peter Lang Publishing, 2000). He is currently writing a monograph entitled Community-Based Research:  A Progress Report, and is working with colleagues in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania on a project analyzing the contributions of science shops to civil society in Central and Eastern Europe.