Gail V. Barrington is a certified management consultant and founder of the Barrington Research Group, Inc.

David M. Chavis is president of the Association for the Study and Development of Community.

Leslie J. Cooksy directs the Tobacco Control Evaluation Center at the University of California, Davis.

sarita davis is associate professor in the Whitney M. Young, Jr. School of Social Work at Clark Atlanta University.

Michael Hendricks is an independent evaluation consultant based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Karen E. Kirkhart is professor in the School of Social Work, College of Human Services and Health Professions, at Syracuse University.

Laura C. Leviton is a senior program officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey.

Melvin M. Mark is professor of psychology at The Pennsylvania State University.

Michael Morris is professor of psychology at the University of New Haven, where he directs the Master's Program in Community Psychology.

Lucía Orellana-Damacela received her master's degree from Loyola University, Chicago, and is currently working on her doctoral dissertation.

Sharon F. Rallis is Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor of Education Policy and Reform at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she is also director of the Center for Education Policy.

Mary Ann Scheirer is an independent consultant with her own firm, Scheirer Consulting.

William R. Shadish is professor and founding faculty at the University of California, Merced.

Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar is professor and head of the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she also serves as associate director of the Center for Capacity Building on Minorities with Disabilities Research.