Joe is an academic advisor and adjunct assistant professor in the LAS College of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is also a National Coordinator for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, has been involved with the Illinois Disciples Foundation for many years, and currently sits on our Board of Directors as the Board Moderator. Joe served as an intelligence officer in the Navy during Vietnam, and had first hand knowledge of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, this and other events led him to become an anti-war activist, both in and out of the service. Locally he has been involved with the anti-Gulf War movement and other movements for social justice.

As a nurse, she has dedicated her life to helping others. She has been instrumental in improving public health in Champaign-Urbana. Jan helped lead the movement to get a public health department in Champaign County. She also serves on the County Board as a liason to the Mental Health Board. In addition, she has also been involved in the labor rights movement for health care workers in our community.

As a young man, Rev. Dan Dale was involved in the Civil Rights Movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement. He became a Trade Union Activist, first as a member of the Seafarers' International Union and later volunteering with the United Farm Workers and the United Steel Workers. The Social Gospel, which had provided the theological frame work for the Dale family for several generation, was expanded to include Liberation Theology as Dan became active in Christians For Socialism and Theology In the Americas in the 1970s. Dan was the lead organizer for the national Sanctuary Movement until 1987 when he and his family moved to El Salvador to work with the church of the poor. After the signing of the Peace Accords, Dan and his family returned to Chicago in 1992 where he became the Director of the United Campus Ministry at UIC. During the past 10 years Dan has continued to be active in Latin America solidarity work including the movement to close the US Army School of the Americas (SOA), defeat free trade agreements like NFTA and FTAA, support efforts for sustainable development in Central America and stop US military intervention in Colombia. As campus minister, Dan has also provided support for Students Against Sweatshops, Graduate Employees Organization, and most recently the Anti-War movement.

Kathy Sims has been the Director of the Center for Women in Transition (CWT) since 1989. The Center is a long-term shelter that provides support services and safe transitional housing to homeless women and their children to foster and sustain their self-sufficiency. Kathy Sims received her B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She began her work with homelessness in that area. As a homeless advocate, she learned many lessons that would serve her throughout her life's work, including the importance of working together with people who do not necessarily share the same viewpoint or tactics in order to expand and advance movements.