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GLENNA BETT is a Research Assistant Professor in Gynecology and Obstetrics at UB and Childrens Hospital. 

LESLIE FRY is a sculptor and public artist; she writes:  "The images in my art are inspired by basic human needs: shelter, food, clothing, work, and intimacy. They take the form of the human body, human artifacts and architecture, and vegetable and animal life. In my sculpture, prints, and drawings, the natural world connects with the human-made world."  She has taught studio art at the University of Vermont and St. Michael’s College, and in the M.F.A. program at Vermont College, and New College of Florida.

ROBIN LALLY is a Research Assistant Professor at UB's School of Nursing. 

DAWN MARTIN-HILL, Ph. D. will give a talk and screen her documentary "Onkwa'nistenhsera: Mothers of Our Nations" (Native women's work on cultural recovery and work against violence).  Dr. Martin-Hill is the Academic Director of the Indigenous Studies Program at McMaster University (which she co-founded as a graduate student). 

WILLARD D. McCALL, Ph.D., is the Chair of Oral Diagnostic Sciences at the UB School of Dental Medicine.   

ANNE MEYER is Director of the Buffalo site for the Industry/University
Center for Biosurfaces; she is also a Research Associate Professor in Oral
Diagnostic Sciences and the Interim Associate Dean for Research in the
School of Dental Medicine.

JENNIFER MORGAN, Ph. D., is Associate Professor of American Studies at New York University and a highly regarded scholar of women and slavery in colonial America and the Caribbean.  Her book, Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in New World Slavery, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2004.

YOSHIKO NOZAKI is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy in the UB School of Education. 

LORA PARK is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Self and Motivation Research Lab at the University at Buffalo. Her research examines questions related to the self, self-esteem, motivation, and interpersonal processes. Her current research examines the causes and consequences of people’s concerns about physical attractiveness.

SUE ROSSER is Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Professor of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has written nine books, edited multiple collections, and written a number of journal articles on the theoretical and applied problems of women, science, and technology and women's health.  From 2001- 2005, she served as co-PI on Georgia Tech's $3.7 million ADVANCE NSF grant. She received her Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973.  From 1995-1999, she was Director for the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida-Gainesville. 

LORIENE ROY is President of the American Library Association (ALA) and a Professor in the School of Information and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. As an Anishinabe (Ojibwe) enrolled on the White Earth Reservation (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe), Dr. Roy focuses her energies on information access, literacy and education of indigenous communities. She has founded or been involved with several diversity projects including Honoring Generations, If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything, Northwest Indian College Oksale Program Virtual Library, and ALA’s Spectrum Initiative.  The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 65,000 members. Its mission is to promote the highest quality library and information services and public access to information.

SARAH SCHULMAN is an American novelist, historian and playwright.  A lifelong political activist, Schulman has been involved in a number of strategic social movements, including Abortion Rights, ACT-UP, and most recently, the Lesbian Avengers.  She is the cofounder of the Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival and is a prodigious contributor to the mainstream and progressive press, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Interview, The Face, Mother Jones, Ms. Magazine, Village Voice, The Advocate, Cineaste, and Jump-Cut.  2007 marks the 15th anniversary of her work Empathy, for which a critical edition was recently published by Arsenal Pulp Press.  Her current play, Carson McCullers, is available from Playscripts, Inc.