This report was prepared by Dawn Day, Director of the Dogwood Center, an independent, nonprofit research organization in Princeton, New Jersey.  Dr. Day is an activist scholar with more than 30 years' experience as a researcher and writer on social issues. 

Dr. Day is the author of a series of reports detailing the impact of the injection-related AIDS epidemic on African Americans and Latinos.  The latest is titled Health Emergency 1999: The Spread of Drug-Related AIDS and Other Deadly Disease Among African Americans and Latinos.

Dr. Day's books dealing with racial discrimination include Adoption Agencies and the Adoption of Black Children (Lexington Books, 1979) and Protest, Politics and Prosperity: Black Americans in White Institutions, 1940-1975 (Pantheon, 1978; co-author).

As a Vice President at Response Analysis, in Princeton, New Jersey, Dr. Day led the team that provided the basic statistical data on American household energy consumption to the US Department of Energy.  Her work on household energy consumption has also been funded by the Ford Foundation. 

Holding both a PhD in sociology and an MSW in social work from the University of Michigan, she has taught at Brooklyn College and the University of Maryland.

Many thanks to Common Sense for Drug Policy and the Drug Policy Foundation for funding the writing of this report.

I am particularly grateful to my husband, Reuben Cohen, for his support in many ways.