Francis Godwyll is Dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Western Illinois University in Macomb and the Quad Cities.

Delane Bender-Slack is Professor in the School of Education at Xavier University, Ohio, USA.

Eléna Rakhimova-Sommers is principal lecturer in Russian and global literature at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Vanessa M. Rigaud, EdD, is an assistant professor at the Montessori Institute, Xavier University, in Cincinnati, OH, and a former teacher and administrator in both public and private Montessori schools. She holds Montessori credentials in Early Childhood and Elementary I-II.