Donna Foote is a freelance journalist who has spent most of her career at Newsweek Magazine where she covered a range of issues and personalities both here and abroad. While based in London she reported on the war in Afghanistan, Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto, tensions in the Middle East, the troubles in Northern Ireland, Princess Diana and the British Royal Family, and UK politics and culture. While Deputy Bureau Chief in Los Angeles, she covered the Rodney King riots and both the criminal and civil trials of OJ Simpson. She also wrote extensively on education, health, and justice issues. She lives in Manhattan Beach, California with her husband Jim Shalvoy and their fourteen-year-old son James.

Paul Cummins was the primary Founder and Headmaster of the Crossroads School, Founder of New Visions Foundation and PS Arts. He is currently the Executive Director of the New Visions Foundation.

In addition to being the primary Founder of New Roads School, a co-founder of Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, the creator of CEO (Center for Educational Opportunity) which places foster children in independent schools, and the Founder of FHF (Families Helping Families), which redirects low income families into life-changing new directions.

He is the author of many books, including a biography on Herbert Zipper, Dachau Song: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper. His latest book, Two Americas, Two Educations: Funding Quality Schools for All Students, was published in January 2007 by Red Hen Press.