MIMI REISEL GLADSTEIN, Professor of English and Theatre Arts, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968-0526, email: <mgladstein@utep.edu>, is former Chair of the English and Philosophy Departments and former Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at her college. She currently serves as Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts and Film. She is the author of The New Ayn Rand Companion (Greenwood Press, 1999), Atlas Shrugged: Manifesto of the Mind (Twayne, 2000), and co-editor of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand. Author of The Indestructible Woman in Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck, Gladstein has won international recognition for her work on John Steinbeck, including the Burkhardt Award for Outstanding Contributions to Steinbeck Studies in 1996.

STEPHEN R. C. HICKS, Department of Philosophy, Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois 61108; email: <Stephen_Hicks@Rockford.edu>, url: <http://www.StephenHicks.org>, is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program in Liberal Arts at Rockford College. He is the co-editor, with David Kelley, of Readings for Logical Analysis (W. W. Norton, 1998), the author of the article on Ayn Rand for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and the author of the forthcoming book, The Postmodern Mind: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.

MICHELLE MARDER KAMHI, email: <kamhi@aristos.org>, url: <http://www.aristos.org>, is an independent scholar and critic. She is co-author of What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (2000), and co-editor of Aristos, an online review of the arts---successor to the journal of the same name that she co-edited from 1984 to 1997. A graduate of Barnard College, she earned an M.A. in Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York. Prior to her association with Aristos, she edited scholarly books, and also conceived and produced Books Our Children Read, a documentary educational film on literature in the school curriculum.

LISA D. McNARY, Assistant Professor, Business Division at LaGrange College, 601 Broad Street, La Grange, Georgia 30240-2999, email: <lmcnary@mindspring.com>, is the owner of DISC Consulting, Ltd. She received her B.A. from Louisiana State University, her M.S. from Lamar University, her Ph.D. at University of New Mexico, and completed post-doctoral study at The Ohio State University. She has over fifteen years of experience in industry, government, and academia in such areas as Human Resources, Quality, Labor, and Training. Her work is strongly influenced by her doctoral mentor, Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the founder of Quality Management.

STEPHEN E. PARRISH, Librarian and Asssistant Professor of Philosophy, Concordia University, 4090 Geddes Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48105, email: <parris@cuaa.edu>, is the author of God and Necessity: A Defense of Classical Theism (University Press of America, 1997), and the co-author (with Francis J. Beckwith) of See the gods Fall (College Press, 1997), and The Mormon Concept of God: A Philosophical Analysis (Edwin Mellen Press, 1991).

TOM PORTER, email: <tpot@ispwest.com>, URL: <http://www.aynrandstheofknowlege.com>, has a BA in philosophy from UCLA. He did three years of graduate work in philosophy at UCLA and USC, and then 2 years of mathematics at CSUN. He is currently pursuing a JD at Southwestern University.

CAROLYN RAY, 2698 Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, email:  <carolynATsupersaturatedDOTcom>, url: <http://supersaturated.com>, obtained her Ph.D. and M.A. in philosophy at Indiana University, and her B.A. in philosophy at Hollins College. Author of a doctoral dissertation on "Identity and Universals," she specializes in epistemology and applied ethics. She is currently engaged in research on the theory of mind and artificial intelligence.  She practices philosophical consulting, landscape consulting, and web programming in La Jolla, California and on the Internet. She also heads Enlightenment <http://enlightenment.supersaturated.com>, an organization that promotes Objectivist scholarship.

ADAM REED, Associate Professor of Information Systems, California State University, Los Angeles, California 90032-8123, email: <areed2@calstatela.edu>, studied electrical engineering, computer science and neurophysiology as an undergraduate and graduate student at MIT. He completed his doctorate in mathematical psychology at the University of Oregon and did postdoctoral research in neural networks at Rockefeller University. Before joining Cal State LA, he spent 18 years at Bell Labs, working in artificial intelligence and software engineering. He is the author of 15 research articles and 3 patents.

PETER SAINT-ANDRE, email: <peter@saint-andre.com>, URL: <http://www.saint-andre.com>, received a B.A. in philosophy and classics from Columbia University but now works full-time on Jabber, an open-source Internet infrastructure project. He is active as a poet, musician, translator, and essayist. He edits a literary webzine at <http://www.monadnock.net> and has published a well-regarded online dictionary of philosophy at <http://www.saint-andre.com/ismbook>. His essays have appeared in Full Context, Liberty, Objectivity, Reason Papers, and Summa Philosophiae.

FRED SEDDON, email: <seddon@stargate.duq.edu>, currently holds adjunct professorships at three universities in South Western Pennsylvania. He has been president of the West Virginia Philosophical Society since 1988 and is an associate member of the Center for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is an international scholar and the author of over 100 books, articles, book reviews and speeches, including such works as Ayn Rand, Objectivists and the History of Philosophy, An Introduction to the Philosophical Works of F.S.C. Northrop, and Aristotle and Lukasiewicz on the Principle of Contradiction.

JANE YODER, email: <janeyoder@comcast.net>, earned her B.A. degree in philosophy in 1952 and an M.Ed. in 1972 from Rutgers University. Retirement from corporate clerical endeavors makes possible a return to more studious activities and pleasures. Continuing education takes place in the Galt’s Gulch state of Colorado and on the Internet. She is enrolled in advanced age adult study through a program sponsored by Denver University. In 2002, she taught a course on Ayn Rand and Objectivism.