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The Worthy Wage Campaign of the Delaware Valley is a grassroots effort to organize providers themselves to address the problem of poor compensation in child care. Started in 1991, the Campaign spearheaded the Loan Forgiveness program, organizes yearly advocacy events on Worthy Wage Day, May 1st, has done surveys of salaries and working conditions, leads ongoing training in leadership and advocacy (LEAP), organizes in the workplace in a variety of ways, and helped launch and staff Pennsylvania QUEST as a vehicle for moving forward the compensation agenda in the state.

Perlson began making documentary and experimental video in Philadelphia in the late 1980's. She is a founding member of the Termite TV Collective, an ongoing swarm devoted to the creation of alternative media. Her award-winning collective and individual work has been broadcast on PBS and cable, exhibited nationally in museums including MOMA (NYC) and the New Museum, and shown at a wide range of festivals. She has an MFA in Film/Media Arts from Temple University, and has taught at the university level for the past decade. She is currently a mother/artist in Medford, MA, where her life sequences between family, community, art and teaching is always subject to interruption.

El Comite de Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agricolas (CATA) is a migrant farmworker organization governed by and comprised of farm workers who are actively engaged in the struggle for better working and living conditions. CATA still actively uses the bilingual video documentary in its outreach work.

Triangle Interests (TI) is a national lesbian membership association created in 1991 as a 501(c) charitable nonprofit organization. T.I. sponsors Triangle Interests Federal Credit Union (TIFCU), the first and only national lesbian credit union in the United States.

Dorothea Braemer is the Director of Squeaky Wheel Media Center and is a media artist whose work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Anthology Film Archive, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on PBS and festivals in the US and abroad.

Wendy Weinberg is an Assistant Professor of Film/Video at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Weinberg has edited numerous projects, including "Sara Steele: A Portrait", a video about the prominent watercolor artist. In addition, she served as consulting editor for Charlene Gilbert's hour-long documentary, "Homecoming", an ITVS sponsored film airing nationally on PBS in 2000. The film, produced by Kinfolks, is a personal documentary on the history of Black farmers in the South. To date, Weinberg's Academy-Award nominated film, "Beyond Imagining" has screened at over 30 national and international festivals (and numerous other events) and has aired on PBS stations in New York and Philadelphia, as well as Australia, Scandinavia, and Ireland.

Maida Odom was reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years, and is currently a professor at Temple University's School of Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising. She is also an active member of the Scribe Video Center board of directors.

Heshimu Jaramogi , a 20-year journalism professional, is the publisher of The Neighborhood Leader and the Frankford News, two community newspapers in Philadelphia. He is a longtime broadcast journalist, producing news (WDAS, WPEN, WCAU) and public affairs (WPEN, WRTI & WHYY) programs for commercial and public radio stations in Philadelphia. This includes stints covering the city administration and City Council in Philadelphia for WDAS radio, serving as a local correspondent for the American Urban Radio Network. He also served as a local correspondent for the National Black Network and Sheridan Broadcasting Network in the 1980s. Jaramogi has worked as a public relations consultant to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, and several community-based clients in Philadelphia and Chicago.