Sue-Ellen Jacobs, who developed, shaped, and inspired this project, is a professor of womens studies at the University of Washington, the editor of Beatrice Medicine's Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining Native, and a coeditor of Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality.Josephine Binford, Esther Martinez's daughter, is a public health nurse for the Indian Health Service with specialization in gerontology, giving her the honored position of caring for the Pueblo elders in Northern New Mexico, as wellas care of her Mother. M. Eileen Carroll is the founder of Storytellers International. Henrietta M. Smith is professor emerita with the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Tilar Mazzeo is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. Tessie Naranjo, an enrolled member of Santa Clara Pueblo, is a sociologist and the vice president of the board of the Indigenous Languages Institute.