Bev Meslo Having been an activist on women's issues for many years; involved in the Social Justice Coalition of Ontario and the Council of Canadians, Bev returned to University in her late forties to continue her study in Politics. Her central issues of interest were First Nations and the Baby-boom seniors. Upon returning to University and becoming involved in the Student Union Movement, Bev has been an active representative in both the Arts Undergraduate Society and the Alma Mater Society. As a student, she has put her interest in social justice to use both within those societies and on campus in general.

Annette Muttray studied biology at the University of Jena, Germany and received her MSc in Microbial Ecology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She is currently enrolled in the PhD program at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at UBC. As an international student she was faced with a sudden and dramatic increase in international tuition fees in 1996 and decided to participate in a legal challenge to uphold the provincial tuition freeze at UBC. Recognizing the capacity of law to further the interests of students and acknowledging the need for funding of such actions, Annette helped to organize the referendum and founding of the Student Legal Fund Society. In the past year, she has served on the Board of Directors. Annette is also interested in environmental law and is involved in the RCMP Public Complaints Commission's Inquiry into the APEC incidents of 1997.

Amir Attaran , is a lawyer (LL.B., UBC) and, in a previous life, a biologist (D.Phil., Oxford). He is an environmental lawyer at Sierra Legal Defence Fund in Vancouver, where he toils amid the entrails of administrative and constitutional law. Together with Michael Hughes, Annette Muttray, James Pond and Mike Thoms, Amir drafted and fought a successful judicial review against illegal tuiton fee increases at UBC. He later co-founded the SLFS with many of these same people.