Eugene Garcia is dean of the School of Education, Arizona State University and is former dean of the school of education at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a senior officer and director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Language Minority Affairs at the U.S. Department of Education. He also served as a National Research Council fellow.

Shirley Malcom heads the education directorate at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). A trustee of Caltech and a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, she has thirty years of experience in the design and implementation of interventions to increase the participation of under-represented groups in science and mathematics.

Willie Pearson, Jr. chairs the School of History, Technology and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology. A member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Women in Science and Engineering, he also chairs the AAAS Committee on Science and Engineering Public Policy and is vice chair of the NSF Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering.

Paula M. Rayman is a professor with the University of Massachusett’s Department of Regional Economic and Social Development. A former director of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute at Harvard University and nationally known scholar on issues of work and social development, she is also a principal investigator of a National Science Foundation Study on Women and Men in Informational Technology.

Richard Tapia is a mathematician and professor at Rice University. He is internationally known for his research in computational and mathematical sciences and has become a national leader in producing women and under-represented minority Ph.D.s in the mathematical sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Science Board. Mr. Tapia received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring from President Clinton in 1996.