Mary Catherine Bateson is President of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York City. She is the author
of With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson and Culture and Generation in Transition.

Elaine Charnov is Director of the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History.

Faye Ginsburg is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, she is the author of Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community.

Bridget Hayden received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1999 and has taught at the University of Michigan, Barnard College, the Universidad Centroamericana in El Salvador and St. Cloud State University. She is the author of Salvadorans in Costa Rica: Displaced Lives.

Nancy Lutkehaus is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. From 1972-1974, she worked as Assistant to Margaret Mead at the American Museum of Natural History. She is the author of Margaret Mead and the Media: Anthropology and the Rise and Fall of an Icon.

Michaela di Leonardo is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University. She is the author of Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity.

Emily Martin is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She is the author of The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction, which won the Eileen Basker Memorial Prize of the Society for Medical Anthropology. In addition to her work on the anthropology of science and reproduction in the U.S., she has written about on the interplay between scientific and popular conceptions of the immune system. In Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in America from the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS, she analyzes the manner in which the concept of "flexibility" in immune discourse has been involved in a transformation of contemporary notions of health and business practices. Her present work is on cultures of the mental and the constitution of selfhood in contemporary U.S. society.

Marcyliena Morgan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCLA and Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. Her research has focused on language, culture and identity, sociolinguistics, discourse and interaction. She is the author of Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture and Editor of Language and the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations. Her other publications include articles and chapters on gender and women's speech, language ideology, discourse and interaction among Caribbean women in London and Jamaica, urban youth language and interaction, and language education planning and policy. She is currently completing a book on hip hop culture and language and the construction of social identity entitled The Fifth Element: Building Culture, Knowledge and Respect in the Hiphop Underground. She is the founding director of the Hip Hop Archive at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.

Esther Newton is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York, Purchase. She is the recipient of the Ruth Benedict Award for Cherry Grove, Fire Island: 60 Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town. Her essays are collected in her book titled Margaret Mead Made Me Gay.

Rayna Rapp received her degrees from the University of Michigan, spent twenty-seven years teaching at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, and is now Professor of Anthropology at New York University. Active in the Women's Health Movement and the Movement to establish Women's Studies programs, she is the editor
of Toward an Anthropology of Women; the co-editor
of Promissory Notes; Articulating Hidden Histories;
Conceiving the New World Order; and the author of the award-winning Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America. Her current research focuses on making and using new genetic knowledge; and the cultural epidemic in learning disabilities.

Judith Shapiro is President of Barnard College. She is the author of numerous articles in the areas of gender differentiation, social theory, and missionization, many based on her field research in lowland South America. She has been President of the American Ethnological Society, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. She currently serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Partner in the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce, and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE).

Lesley Sharp is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College. She is the author of The Possessed and the Dispossessed. Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town and The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar as well as numerous articles on organ transplantation in the United States. A medical anthropologist by training, she considers herself first and foremost an ethnographer, entrenched fully in a tradition Mead helped to establish in North American Anthropology.