Rufino Dominguez is director of Frente Indigena Oaxaqueno Binacional (FIOB), or the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations, a community-based, nonprofit coalition of indigenous organizations, communities and individuals in Oaxaca, Baja California and California in the United States. The coalition's members include several pockets of Oaxacans in Fresno and Madera counties. Founded in 1991 in Los Angeles, the organization supports indigenous communities with development and educational programs.
Marilyn Mochel is clinical director of Healthy House of Merced, Calif. Healthy House, a community non-profit, provides services and training programs aimed at solving problems related to language and cultural difficulties in a health care and social services setting. Ms. Mochel co-founded a multicultural health care coalition that eventually evolved into Health House. That coalition was called MATCH, an acronym for Multidisciplinary Approach to Cross-cultural Health. A registered nurse, Ms.
Anthony Wexler, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California, Davis, studies how very small particles -- measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter -- contribute to air pollution and affect human health and climate. Wexler believes the role of these atmospheric nanoparticles is one of the largest unknowns in understanding global climate change. Clouds form when water droplets form around nanoparticles, and the thickness and whiteness of clouds affects how much heat from the sun is reflected back into space.
