Rick Attig, executive editor, The Bulletin (Bend, Ore.)
Deborah Barfield, reporter, Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.)
Debbie Cenziper, reporter, The Charlotte Observer
Ellen Debenport, national correspondent, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
Dawn DeCwikiel-Kane, reporter, News & Record (Greensboro, N.C.)
Joel Dresang, reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Barbara Egbert, asst. editorial page editor, Alameda Newspaper Group/Oakland Tribune
Claudia Feldman, features reporter, Houston Chronicle
Patricia Fisher, editorial writer, San Jose Mercury News
Suzanne Gamboa, capital reporter, Austin American-Statesman
Steven Goldsmith, reporter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Ruth Hammond, features writer, The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
Richard Hendrickson, editorial page editor, The Morning Journal (Lorain, Ohio)
Debera Harrell, reporter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Benjamin "Butch" John, senior reporter, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.)
Nancy Mayer, reporter, The (Portland) Oregonian
David McClendon, staff writer, New Haven (Conn.) Register
Donna McGuire, social services reporter, The Kansas City Star
M.A.J. (Maryn) McKenna, reporter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Donna Myrow, publisher, LA Youth (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Lois Norder, metro editor, Fort Worth (Ind.) Star-Telegram
Elizabeth O'Connell, family editor, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio)
Tanya Ott, assistant news director, WUFT-FM (Gainesville, Fla.)
Dave Parks, senior reporter, The Birmingham (Ala.) News
Judy Putnam, capital bureau reporter, Booth Newspapers (Lansing, Mich.)
Jean Rimbach, staff writer, The Record (Bergen, N.J.)
Lynn Smith, staff writer, The Los Angeles Times
Sarah Snyder, assistant Metro editor, The Boston Globe
Jill Wolfson, freelance writer, San Jose, Calif.
Tanya Fogg Young, social services reporter, Savannah (Ga.) News-Press
Lois Collins, human services writer, Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Rodney Pringle, City Hall reporter, The Fredricksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star
Douglas Lyons, senior reporter, Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
Mike Stobbe, health reporter, The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville)

SPEAKERS

J. Lawrence Aber, Director, National Center for Children in Poverty
Douglas J. Besharov, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Rebecca Blank, Professor of Economics, Northwestern Univ.
Gary Burtless, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Eliza Newlin Carney, Staff Correspondent, National Journal
Alvin C. Collins, Secretary, Maryland Department of Human Resources
Jason DeParle, Reporter, The New York Times
Peter Digre, Director, Los Angeles County Dept. of Children and Family Services
Richard J. Gelles, Director, Family Violence Research Program, Univ. of Rhode Island
Cheryl Hayes, Executive Director, The Finance Project
Toby Herr, Director, Project Match, Chicago
John Holahan, Director, Health Policy Center, The Urban Institute
Jeffrey L. Katz, Social Policy Reporter, Congressional Quarterly
Vesta Kimble, Deputy Director, Anne Arundel County (Md.) Dept. of Social Services
Anna Kondratas, Consultant
Michael C. Laracy, Senior Program Associate, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Jodie Levin-Epstein, Senior State Policy Analyst, Center for Law and Social Policy
Lavinia Limon, Dir. of the Office of Family Assistance, Admin. for Children and Families, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
Marcia K. Meyers, Asst. Prof., Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Gerald H. Miller, Director, Michigan Family Independence Agency
C. Rudolf Myers, Asst. Director, Div. of Family Development, New Jersey Dept. of Human Services
Alan Murray, Washington Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal
Paul Offner, Commissioner, District of Columbia Government Commission on Health Care Finance
Neal R. Peirce, Syndicated Columnist, Washington Post Writers Group
James Riccio, Senior Research Associate, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC)
Theresa Richardson, a Project Match client from Cabrini-Green public housing development
Fred Schulte, Investigations Editor, Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale
Gary J. Stangler, Director, Missouri Department of Social Services
Sheri Steisel, Senior Director/Human Services Committee, National Conference of State Legislatures
Lawrence H. Thompson, Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute
Gloria M. Timmer, Director, Division of the Budget, State of Kansas
Barbara Vobejda, Staff Writer, The Washington Post
Kent Weaver, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Cheryl Wetzstein, National Reporter, The Washington Times