Angela Glover Blackwell is is the founder and CEO of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity, with offices in Oakland, California, and New York, New York. Stewart Kwoh is the founding president and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles. Manuel Pastor is a professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and the director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at the University of Southern California.