Delia D. Aguilar is an associate professor of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Karin Aguilar-San Juan teaches Asian American Studies and Sociology in southern California. She is the author of The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990's (South end Press, 1994).
Margarita Alcantara is the editor of the 'zine Bamboo Girl.
Anannya Bhattacharjee is currently working with Workers' Awaaz in New York City. She is co-founder of the editorial collective of SAMAR magazine. She is the former Executive Director of the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence and former Coordinator and founding mother of Sakhi for South Asian Women.
Kshiteeja Bhide is a psychotherapist in Connecticut. She has worked extensively with women and provides consultation and counseling for corporations and their employees with special linguistic and/or cultural requirements. She is the current president/coordinator of SNEHA. She is also one of the founders of Women's Entrepreneurial Trust, an organization based in Pune, India which is dedicated to education and empowerment of women toward economic and social self-sufficiency.
Grace Chang is the author of Gatekeeping and Housekeeping: The Politics of Regulating Women's Migration. She is co-editor of Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency. Her essays on undocumented women's labor migration have appeared in Radical America and Socialist Review. She is completing her Ph.D in Ehthnic Studies at Berkely.
Pamela Chiang works at the Asian Pacific Environmenta Network and has organized garment workers.
Milyoung Cho is working for the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum. She has worked with the Committee Against Anit-Asian Violence in New York and recently inished school in traditional Chinese Medicine.
Sayantani Dasgupta is an MD/MPH student at Johns Hopkins University and a freelance writer. Her essays have appeared in publications such as A. Magazine, Ms., India Currents, Z Magazine, Contemporary Pediatrics, and Journal of the Annals of Behavioral Science in Medical Education and anthologies such as So... What Are You Doing After College?, Our Feet Walk the Sky, and Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map America. She and her daughter, Shamita, have co-authored a book entitled The Demon Slayers and Other Stories: Bengal Folk Tales (Interlink, 1995)
Shamita Das Dasgupta is one of the founders of Manavi, the pioneering organization for battered South Asian women based in New Jersey. She is the editor of an anthology on Sount Asian women forthcoming from Rutgers University Press. She is an assistant professor of Psychology at Rutgers University.
Diane C. Fujino is an assistant professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She teaches courses of Asian feminism and Asian American social movements, and does research on Asian women's political activism. She is a socialist feminist and a founding member of Asian Sisters for Ideas in Action Now!, a radical political organization in Santa Barbara.
Elaine Kim is a professor of Asian American Studies and Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkely. She co-edited Dangerous Women" Gender and Korean Nationalism (Routledge, 1997), Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women (Beacon, 1997), and East to America: Korean American Life Stories (the New Press, 1996).
Yuri Kochiyama is a longtime human rights activist. She lives in New York City.
Miriam Ching Louie works with Asian Immigrant Women Advocates and the Women of Color resource Center, and helped organize roundtables on migrant and women workers' centers and on organizing among ethnic and racial minority women at the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women NGO Forum in China.
Lynn Lu is an editor/Publisher in the South End Press Collective.
Meizhu Lui worked in a hospital kitchen for 20 years, and became the president of her union local. She is a community organizer around healthcare issuea and is starting a project for immigrants access to health care.
Leslie Mah is the lead guitaris of Tribe 8.
Sia Nowrojee is a consultant in sexual and reproductive health, specializing in the impact of gender on women's health. She has worked with a range of organizations in the United States, east Africa, and South Asia. She is a board member of the National Asian Women's Health Organization.
Juliana Pegues is a writer and activist living in Mineapolis. Her Current political commitments include ongoing work with the Garment Workers Justice Campaign and work with the Women's Prison Book Project.
Bandana Purkayastha a core member of SNEHA, is an educator and community activist. She combines organizing experience in India with activism in the United States. Her current research focusses on gender, transnational influences, places, and discursive politics.
Shyamala Raman is a founder/member of SNEHA. She is an associate professor if Economics and International Studies at Saint Joseph College in Westr Harford, Connecticut. Her interests include interdisciplinary curriculum design, feminist economics, theories of the firm, methodologies of econiomics, technical empowerment for women, and transformative pedagogies.
Puri Shah lives and works in New York City. She is active with sakhi for South Asian Women and serves as the literacy tutor for Sakhi's ESL classes.
Sonia Shah is an editor/publisher a the South End Press and a freelance writer. Her essays on feminism abd Asian American issues have appeared in Ms., Sojourner, Z Magaizine, The Indian American, Nuclear Times, In These Times, and Gay Community News, and have been widel anthologized in books including Listen Up! Voices from the Next Feminist Generation: The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990's; A patchwork Shawl: Chronicles of South Asian Women in America, Frontline Feminism, 1975-1995; Women Transforming Politics Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology; Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States; and Nationalism and the Ethnic Conflict. She is the editor of Between Fear and Hope: A Decade of Peace Activism and was formerly managing editor of Nuclear Times magazine.
Jeal Silliman is an assistant professor of Women's Studies at the University of Iowa. She is currently board chair of the National Asian Women's Health Organization and board member of the Pro-Choice Resource Center, the International Projects Assistance Services, and a steering Committee member of the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment. SHe has been an activist for women's rights in the United States and abroad and has worked particularly on population, environment, and developmental issues.
Julie Sze is an organizar with the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, a coalition of individuals and community-based organizations working for environmental, economic, and social justice in communities of color throughout New York City. She is a PhD student in American Studies at New York University studying construction of race, nature, and environmental justice.
Cheng Imm Tan is a Senior Associate Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry, and an organizer and co-founder ot the Asian Women's Task Force Against Domestic Violence in Boston.
Selena Whang is a PhD candidate in Performance studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She teaches at New York University and Parsons School of Design. She has toured widely with her lecture and film/video clip show "Queer Colored Girls: The End of Innocence and the Beginning of Violence and Desire" at film festivals and universities. SHe has published in journals and 'zines College Literature, Documents, Bamboo Girl, OutPunk, Girl Gems, Riot Grrrl NYC, and in the anthology Bi Any Other Name (1991, Alyson Publications). She is featured on the CD compilations Music in Multicultural America (1997, Harp Records), There's a Dyke in the Pit (1992, Outpunk and Harp Records), It's all True (1994, Big Cat Records), and the Lucy Stoners (1993, Harp Records), as well as the soundtrack on the film Frenzy (1993, Jill Reiter).
Helen Zia, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, is a writer and journalis; her writings appear in many books, magazines, and other publications. A contributing editor to Ms., where she was formerly executive editor, she recently wrote about the Hong Kong Handover's impact on women. She is also a featured columnist for the webzine www.ChannelA.com. A longtime activist for social change, she serves on the boards and volunteers with numerous organizations including tha Asian Women's Shelter of San Francisco and the Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute in Denver. She resides in the San Francisco bay area and is at work on a book about the political and cultural impact of Asian Americans, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1999.
