Nandini Pillai Kuehn, PhD, has fifteen years of experience in health care administration and in health funding and policy. She is presently the director of New Mexico Health Services Consulting and is the founder and board president of the New Mexico health insurance cooperative New Mexico Health Connections.
Former US Senator Fred Harris is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of New Mexico as well a director emeritus of the UNM Fred Harris Congressional Internship Program. He has produced twenty nonfiction books on public policy, politics, and government, including the coedited Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States, as well as three novels.