Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis is an Associate Professor os Psychology at Pepeprdine University.  She is President-Elect of the Society for the Psychology of Women.  Dr. Bryant-Davis is author of Thriving in the wake of trauma: A multicultural guide.  She also directs the Culture and Trauma Research Lab at Pepeprdine University.  Dr. Thema has advocated for women nationally and internationally at the United Nations, as well as in the media, in communities, hospitals, prisons, and schools.

Professor at the School of Law since 1990, Vernellia Randall write extensively on and speaks internationally about race, women, and health care. She is the recipient of the Ohio Commission on Minority Health Chairman’s Award, and she was named one of the “Top 10 Most Influential African-Americans” on the 2001 Black Equal Opportunity Employment Journal list.  Professor Randall provided public health nursing services and served as an administrator for a statewide health program in Alaska. Involved in public health work for more than 15 years, Professor Randall focused on eliminating disparities in health care for minorities and the poor.

After graduating in 1987 from Lewis and Clark Law School, she became an associate with a Portland, Oregon, law firm specializing in health care law and issues relating to health and disability insurance coverage. She also served as an adjunct faculty member at Lewis and Clark College.   Since coming to the School of Law, Professor Randall has also served as a grant reviewer for the National Institute of Health. She has been recognized in Who's Who in the World since 1995 and Who's Who in the United States since 1998. Randall is also a co-organizer of the Miami Valley Community Summit on Eliminating Racism. In addition, Professor Randall is the editor and webmaster for four academic websites on race, health care, gender, and academic support.

She maintains several websites:
http://www.racism.org/
 http://academic.udayton.edu/health/
http://academic.udayton.edu/legaled/

She is the author of “Dying While Black.”  More importantly, she is the proud mother of her adult sons, Tshaka and Issa.

Loreta Ross is a founding member of SisterSong, Loretta Ross became National Coordinator in 2005.  In 2004, Loretta was National Co-Director of the April 25, 2004 March for Women's Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history with more than one million participants.  From 1996-2004, she was the Founder and Executive Director of the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) in Atlanta, Georgia.  She is an expert on human rights, women's issues, diversity issues, hate groups and right-wing organizations.  Ms. Ross is presently writing a book on reproductive rights entitled Black Abortion.

Harriet A. Washington is a medical ethicist and writer whose work focuses upon the intersection of biotechnology, ethics and the history of medicine. She spent 2002-2005 as a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School,  has been a Visiting Scholar at DePaul University School of Law, a John S. Knight Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow at Tuskegee University’s Center For Bioethics, Fellow of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course and a recipient of the Harvard Journalism Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Public Health. She has been a contributor, news editor, science editor, and medical columnist for a number of esteemed national publications. Her many awards include a 2007 PEN Award, the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, a Science Desk Award funded by  the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation  and the Congressional Black Caucus Beacon of Light Award.

She has published in academic publications as well, among them JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, the American Journal of Public Health, the Harvard Public Health Review and the Harvard AIDS Review. Washington is  the founding editor of The Harvard Journal of Minority Public Health

Ms. Washington has presented her work in public health, medical ethics and the history of medicine at dozens  of universities both domestic and European, including Harvard Medical School, the University of Chicago Medical School, Stanford Law School, the Mayo Clinic, Albert Einstein Medical School and schools of medicine in Geneva, Vienna, Berlin and Lübeck. She was a Plenary Speaker at the American Society of Bioethics 2007 Annual Meeting, and has often  given presentations and ethical grand rounds at schools of medicine, including  the Mayo Clinic and the  University of Chicago. She is the immediate past board president of the Ferre Institute, which is devoted to reproductive and genetics issues.

Ms. Washington’s  books on medicine include the 2007 best seller Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation with African Americans from the Colonial Era to the Present, which won many awards including the National  Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. She has also written lauded books on hepatitis C, on Parkinson’s disease and on African-American health issues. Most recently she has written peer-reviewed articles about ethics of  nonconsensual medical research, of forensic  DNA sweeps, and the role of  race in the development of dermatology and the distortion of medical research by fiscal policies. She co-authored the 2008 JAMA article that provided the basis of the AMA’s apology to the nation’s black physicians.

Ms. Washington is a member of the boards of American Legacy magazine, The New Press, DePaul University’s Health Law Institute, and the Journal of the National Medical Association. She has taught at venues such as New School University, SUNY, the Rochester Institute of Technology, Writers&Books and has worked as a tutor in Latin at the University of Rochester and as a teaching assistant at the Harvard School of Public Health. Ms Washington has also worked as a social worker, as the manager of a poison-control center and as a classical-music announcer for public radio.