Dianne Glave is an assistant professor in the African American Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University. Dianne has received fellowships and grants from the Smithsonian, Loyola Marymount University, the Rockefeller Archives, and the Organization of American Historians. Her academic interests extend into the community, including volunteer work with African American women at Faithful Central Bible Church and the disadvantaged children at the Children's Nature Institute. Daniel Gruner is a Ph. D candidate in the Department of Zoology and the Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
D studies concentrate on arthropod diversity in the Hawaiian Islands.
Dan is also working to stem the tide of introduced species, both through research into effective management and outreach into K-12 classrooms. Daniel involves school children in the collection of distribution data for a recently introduced, and greatly feared, fire ant species. Daniel has participated with the Organization for Tropical Studies in Costa Rica and received fellowships and grants from U.S. EPA, the National Science Foundation, and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, among others, to support these efforts. Jennifer Hill-Kelley is environmental quality director of the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin where she is responsible for reviewing environmental impacts of tribal projects and operations, assuring environmental compliance with tribal and federal laws, and developing policies to affirm environmental sovereignty and provide community education. She serves on the Executive Council of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and is vice chair of the Indigenous Peoples subcommittee.