When Steel Talks Who's Who of Steelpan Music Personalities and Associates
	Les Slater is a print and broadcast journalist with a long-standing interest in the cultural traditions of Trinidad and Tobago. He is the editor-at-large of Black Diaspora magazine and is a columnist for the weekly Caribbean Life, the most widely circulated stateside Caribbean newspaper. He has also been the producer and host of numerous television programs that have aired on WNYE-TV.  He was a founder of the Trinidad & Tobago Folk Arts Institute, a Brooklyn-based organization devoted to the documentation and presentation of a variety of calypso, steelband, and carnival artists.