Helen Aguirre Ferré has worked as a journalist for nearly twenty years.

She is Opinion Page Editor of Diario Las Americas, an independent Spanish language newspaper celebrating its 50th year of publication as the oldest Spanish language newspaper in Florida. She also writes a weekly column for the Sunday edition.

In addition, Helen Aguirre Ferré provides an analysis of international affairs on the weekly Spanish language television program Actualidad for TV Marti from the U. S. Office of Cuba Broadcasting, which airs throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean. She has also moderated the Florida public affairs program Florida's Watch on Washington and has been a guest on the PBS program To The Contrary.

Passionate about community involvement and participation, Helen Aguirre Ferré is active in a number of organizations. Currently, she is a Trustee of Miami-Dade Community Colleges, a member of the Florida Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, an Associate Member of the Inter-American Dialogue, a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, a member the Women's Fund, an advisor to the Nicaraguan American Foundation, an advisor to Centro Mater and is a Dame of the Knights of Malta.

Helen Aguirre Ferré has a B. A. in Political Science from Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, and an M. A. in Inter-American Studies from the School of Advanced International Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. She is married and has three children.

Steve Gushée has been an Episcopal clergyman for more than 37 years. He was born and raised in Detroit, served at St. Peter’s Church in Cheshire, Connecticut and as rector of Trinity Church in Newtown, Connecticut. He also spent 13 years as Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Hartford, Connecticut.

In that office he was responsible for both the work of an inner city church and minding the official seat of the Episcopal bishop in the state.

Gushée served a Florida parish as senior associate from 1991 to 1994 and was the religion writer for the Palm Beach Post for five years until July 1999. He continues to write a weekly opinion column called “On Religion” for the Post.

He graduated from Kent School in Connecticut, Brown University in Rhode Island and the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has studied at St. George's College in Jerusalem, the Virginia Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia and Hartford Seminary in Connecticut. He was a canon to St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, Scotland for 10 years and served as a member and, at times, director, of a number of social service organizations and inner city agencies.

Gushée also served as a line officer in the regular U.S. Navy for three years and was health underwriter for Connecticut General Life Insurance Company before entering seminary. He and his wife, Mary Coakley, live in West Palm Beach. They have three children and five granddaughters.