Jacqueline Mondros is professor and dean emeritus of Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare and a past president of the National Association of Deans and Directors of Social Work. With more than twenty-five publications in community organizing, including coauthoring the first edition of Organizing for Power and Empowerment (Columbia, 1994), she has organized in Philadelphia, New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.
Joan Minieri is a longtime leader in the field of social action and has organized in New York and nationally. She is the coauthor of Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community (2007).