Susan Porter Benson teaches history at the University of Connecticut.  She has worked with Nine to Five and with Threads, the humanities program of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Worker’s Union.  Her current project is a study of working-class family economies in the interwar United States, and the results will be published by Cornell University Press.

Sakhela Buhlungu is a former education officer of the Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers' Union who now teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a member of the editorial board of the South African Labour Bulletin and the governing boards of the Workers' Library and Museum and the National Labour and Economic Development Institute (NALEDI), a research institute attached to COSATU.

Richard A. Cloward is on the faculty of Columbia University.  He is co-author with Frances Fox Piven of Why Americans Still Don’t Vote (2000) and Poor Peoples’ Movements (1977).

Shanna M.Cohn is an associate at Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP in Washington, D.C.  She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the Yale Law School.

Ajamu Dillahunt is the president of the Raleigh Area Local of the American Postal Workers Union and is the director of research and education for the North Carolina Council of the union.  He is on the steering committee of Black Workers for Justice.

Miriam Frank teaches Humanities at New York University and Women’s Labor History through Cornell’s Labor Relations Institute.  She is completing a book on lesbian and gay labor issues entitles Out in the Union (Temple University Press).  She and her life partner Desma Holcomb are co-mothers of a 10 year old daughter.

Jill Andresky Fraser is a New York City based financial journalist.  Her new book, White-Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of Work and Its Rewards in Corporate America, is published by W. W. Norton & Co. 

Fernando E. Gapasin, PhD is a prolific labor scholar and veteran activist.  He is the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1108 and teaches at the Labor Center at University of California, Los Angeles.

Desma Holcomb is Deputy Director of Research and Policy at SEIU Local 32BJ.  A founder of New York City’s Lesbian and Gay Labor Network, she serves as a New York State Representative to Pride at Work, AFL-CIO.  She and her life partner Miriam Frank are co-mothers of a 10 year old anti-sweatshop agitator.

Gerald Hunt is an Associate Professor of Human Resources Management and Industrial Relations at Ryerson University in Toronto, and author of Laboring for Rights (Temple, 1999).  He and co-author David Rayside have been intellectual and romantic partners for over 15 years and live together in downtown Toronto.

Collete A. Hyman teaches History and Women's Studies at Winona State University, in Winona, Minnesota.  She is the author of Staging Strikes: Workers’ Theatre and the American Labor Movement (Temple University Press, 1997) and currently at work on a study of gender and economic development in Winona.

Tamara Jones is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at Yale University.  As both scholar and community activist, her work focuses on the needs and insights that emerge from the intersection of class, race, gender and sexual identity.

Sara Nichols is Assistant Editor of  New Labor Forum.  She received her B.A. from Yale University in 1999.  

Katie Quan is the director of the John F. Henning Center for International Relations at the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a former garment worker, union organizer, district council manager, and international vice-president of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE).

Frances Fox Piven is on the faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  She is co-author with Richard Cloward of Why Americans Still Don’t Vote (2000) and Poor Peoples’ Movements (1977).

David Rayside is Professor of Politics and Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.  He is the author of On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics (Cornell, 1998), and has co-authored articles on unions and sexual diversity with his partner Gerald Hunt.

Leonard Rodberg teaches urban studies at Queens College/CUNY and is on the Executive Board of the Five Borough Institute, a labor-academic think tank in New York City.

David Roediger teaches working-class history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His edited version of Covington Hall’s Labor Struggles in the Deep South is available from the Charles H. Kerr Company.

Nancy Wohlforth is the President of Local 3 OPEIU.  She was a founder of the San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Labor Alliance.  Currently she is a Vice President of the California Labor federation and an Executive Committee member of the San Francisco Labor Council.  She has served as co-president of Pride at Work, AFL-CIO since 1997.