Sharon Levy, MD, MPH is a board-certified developmental-behavioral pediatrician and an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School; she has a Master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She serves as the medical director of the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program at Children's Hospital Boston, where she has evaluated and treated hundreds of adolescents with substance use disorders, using developmentally appropriate, family-oriented, scientifically based strategies. She is also a researcher at the Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research (CeASAR) at Children's Hospital Boston.

William C. Moyers is vice president of external affairs for the Hazelden Foundation, based in Minnesota. William uses his own personal experiences to “carry the message” about addiction and recovery to policy makers, civic groups, churches and schools across America. His memoir, “Broken,” will be published in September by Viking Press.

Patricia Taylor, executive director of Faces & Voices of Recovery, leads a nationwide campaign working to mobilize the recovery community to seek and implement public policies that support recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs; break down barriers that preclude access to recovery; change public attitudes to prioritize addiction recovery and show the public and policymakers that recovery is happening for millions of Americans and their families in communities across America. She has over 30 years of experience developing and managing local and national public interest advocacy campaigns on a range of issues including healthcare, community development and philanthropy. She directed the Alcohol Policies Project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and the Advocates Senior Alert Process at the health advocacy group Families USA. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.