Reprinted with the permission of Aspen Publishers, from AIDS and the Law, Fourth Edition, 2008-2010, www.aspenpublishers.com

Ignatius Bau, J.D., (chapter 11) is a Program Director at The California Endowment, a private health foundation, where he is responsible for program planning, grantmaking and evaluation on issues of language access, cultural competency, health workforce diversity and health care disparities reduction.

Liam Galbreth (chapter 9) is Staff Attorney and Clinical Instructor in the Health Practice at the East Bay Community Law Center, Berkeley, California.

Carolyn McAllaster (chapter 13) is a Clinical Professor of Law and the founder and Director of the AIDS Legal Assistance Project at Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina.

Stephen A. Rosenbaum (chapter 5) is a staff attorney with Disability Rights California (formerly Protection and Advocacy, Inc.), in Oakland, California, and teaches courses in disability and civil rights and social justice at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University schools of law.

Mark Scherzer and A. Christopher Wieber (chapter 12) practice law together in New York City, where they concentrate in the representation of seriously and chronically ill and disabled consumers to protect their rights to health, disability, and life benefits.

Carol Suzuki (chapter 13) is Associate Professor of Law at the University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Linda Tam (chapter 11) is a Staff Attorney and Clinical Instructor in the Health Practice at the East Bay Community Law Center in Berkeley, California.

Mark E. Wojcik (chapter 10) is Professor of Law at John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois.