Marilyn Yalom, Ph.D. is a senior scholar at the Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University. She was educated at Wellesley College, the Sorbonne, Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She has been a professor of French and comparative literature, director of an institute for research on women, a popular speaker on the lecture circuit, and the author of numerous books including A History of the Breast; A History of the Wife; Birth of the Chess Queen; Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory; and Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness. Her books have been translated into 20 languages.

Tom Leykis is host of the "The Tom Leykis Show," a nationally syndicated radio program since 1994. The show is known for "Flash Friday," a radio program that invites women to flash their breasts. Equally provocative is his "Leykis 101," an unapologetic primer to help men get sex with minimum effort. His "rules" include dumping women who won't have sex by the third date, and refusing to date single mothers. Leykis began his radio career in 1970 at age 14 when he won a contest sponsored by a Long Island radio station.

Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D. is an adjunct professor of anthropology at Texas A&M University, where she taught from 1987 to 2000. She is the author of Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa, which recounts tales of her fieldwork on child health in Mali. Dancing Skeletons was awarded the 1995 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology. She is also the co-editor of Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives, which includes her own two chapters "Beauty and the Breast: The Cultural Context of Breastfeeding in the United States," and "A Time to Wean: The Hominid Blueprint for a Natural Age of Weaning in Modern Human Populations." She is a frequent speaker at universities, La Leche League conferences and lactation consultant conferences.

Patricia Dawson, M.D., Ph.D. is a private practice surgeon with the Comprehensive Breast Center at the Swedish Medical Center/Providence Campus in Seattle. Since 1994, Dr. Dawson has focused her surgical practice on diseases of the breast. She is also author of the book Forged by the Knife: The Experience of Surgical Residency from the Perspective of a Woman of Color.

Jeanne Rizzo is the executive director of The Breast Cancer Fund. This national non-profit organization works in response to the public health crisis of breast cancer to identify - and advocate for elimination of - the environmental and other preventable causes of the disease. A longtime women's health advocate, Ms. Rizzo's commitment to progressive causes began during her career as a Registered Nurse and continued throughout her years as a music, film and theatre producer. Her work with The Breast Cancer Fund began in 1997 when she produced the premiere screening of "Rachel's Daughters: Searching for the Causes of Breast Cancer" as a benefit for the organization. Rizzo also helped launch the organization's controversial "Obsessed with Breasts" campaign.

Michele McGraw is area director for La Leche League of Washington, part of a La Leche League International. The organization's mission is to help mothers to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information and education. It also works to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother.

Michele Crockett is a coordinator for La Leche League of Washington.

Dr. Mary Ann O'Hara is a clinical assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Washington. Her focus is on maternal/child health as a teacher, clinician, researcher and public health advocate. Dr. O'Hara obtained her medical degree from Johns Hopkins, and her master's in social anthropology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. She also did a fellowship in international health policy as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at USAID, and received a master's in public health as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Washington. She is on the board of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine and she represents the academy on the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee.

Ellen Sirbu is a registered dietitian and she holds a Master of Sciences degree from U.C. Berkeley. Sirbu has worked for the City of Berkeley for 37 years and with the city's WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children) program for 29 years. The City of Berkeley WIC Program has the highest exclusive breastfeeding rates of all the WIC programs in California. The program holds a Guinness World Record for the most women breastfeeding their infants (1,130), at the same time, in the same place.

Deena Metzger is a writer, storyteller and healer who has taught and counseled for over 35 years. She is also a pioneering "cover girl." When Metzger wrote a book about her struggle with breast cancer in the 1970s, she decided she wanted to be on the cover. The resulting post-mastectomy photograph of her, shirtless and joyously lifting her arms into the sky, was too much for her publisher. He refused to print it, but the picture has since become very well known, inspiring countless breast cancer survivors and gracing the covers of medical journals, posters, postcards and finally, later editions of her book. She is the author of many books, including most recently, Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing; The Other Hand; Tree: Essays and Pieces and Writing For Your Life.

Will Glennon is president of Classroom Connections and the author of Fathering; The Collected Wisdom of Fathers, 200 Ways to Raise a Girl's Self Esteem; 200 Ways to Raise Boy's Emotional Intelligence and editor of the Random Acts of Kindness books. Glennon is on the board of Dad's and Daughters, a national advocacy nonprofit for fathers and daughters. D.A.D. inspires fathers to engage in their daughter's lives and galvanizes fathers to transform the pervasive cultural messages that devalue girls and women.

The Bravata-Keating's have struggled together as a family to deal with the crisis of breast cancer. Evelyn and her husband Dan, both architects, live with their two children in Seattle.

BurlyQ is a Seattle-based burlesque troop and queer cabaret founded in 2002 by Miss Indigo Blue and features Eva Sabotage, Liquid Lulu, The naughty librarian, Shue Shue LeHaure, Fancy Chance and Lydia McLane.