The initial Editors of STRATEGIES are members of two research teams: the Learning to Change Network and PAR-L (Policy-Action-Research List). The journal developed through the partnership of these two teams.

Learning to Change Network was established in 1994 with a Women and Change Strategic Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The Network fosters collaborative research processes to describe and analyse feminist change work in universities and the Canadian and Quebec research policy sectors. It was initiated to document and reflect on individual and collective memories of feminist organizing, to revitalize feminist visions and to develop shared analyses of changing political and social conditions.

In this work, we have realized the potential for new and broader understandings of feminist strategies - both inside and outside the academy. This electronic journal is seen as an avenue to continue the work undertaken in conferences, to facilitate communication across feminist networks, and to promote wider feminist involvement in transforming knowledge and social structures. Members are Linda Christiansen-Ruffman, Francine Descarries, Keith Louise Fulton, Carmen Lambert, and Marilyn Taylor.

PAR-L is an electronic network of individuals and organizations interested in women-centred policy issues in Canada. It includes an electronic discussion list, founded in 1995, and a Web site, developed a year later. The list and Web site are tools for developing, conducting and distributing feminist research in a multidisciplinary context and in both official languages. In 1997, PAR-L received a Strategic Research Network grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Its founding members are Michèle Ollivier and Wendy Robbins.

All members of Learning to Change Network and PAR-L are active participants as Editors and share responsibilities cooperatively.

As Editors of STRATEGIES, we have ethical responsibilities toward authors, reviewers and readers. These responsibilities include fair review within reasonable time-frames for publishing decisions. The opinions expressed in STRATEGIES are those of the authors. While the public discussion Forum welcomes a diversity of perspectives, the Editors reserve the right not to publish material that we find sexist, racist, homophobic, or otherwise similarly offensive. Practices known as "flaming" will also constitute ground for non-publication.