Timothy Adams: Tim is a doctoral candidate at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina. His research interests include special education, science curriculum, and alternative education. Tim holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Biology from The United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, and a Master of Arts in School Administration from Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. He has taught high school and middle school science, middle school math, career and technical education courses, as well as driver's education, and served in various different leadership and administrative roles in public schools over the past 20 years. He currently is a Principal in the Catawba County School District in North Carolina. He has future career aspirations to both teach aspiring teachers at the undergraduate level, teach graduate-level teaching or administration, as well as working as a curriculum developer for districts.

Jessie Kong: Jessie is a doctoral candidate at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina. Her research interests include best practices for language immersion and bilingualism. Jessie holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Linguistics from The University of Melbourne, Australia with Sociolinguistics work done at The University of California, Berkeley, USA, a Graduate Diploma in Interpreting and Translating from Deakin University, Australia, a Master Degree of Arts in Biblical Counseling from Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. She has taught at institutes of education, high school and middle school English, elementary school and kindergarten Chinese in Australia, Hong Kong, China, and the US. She has been a translator, language teacher and family counselor in both the private and public sectors for over 20 years. She is currently a Lead Teacher in a language immersion school in Charlotte, North Carolina. She has future career aspirations to both teach at college or administration, as well as working as a curriculum developer.

Mike Lefko: Mike is a doctoral candidate at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina. His research interests include special education self-efficacy and ways to transform teaching and learning for students. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Special Education from The State University of New York at Geneseo, and a Master of School Administration as a N.C. Principal Fellow from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has taught special education and served in various different leadership and administrative roles in public, private and charter schools over the past 30 years. He currently teaches middle school students with Autism in the Union County School District in North Carolina. He has future career aspirations to both teach aspiring teachers at the undergraduate level as well as to move back into a school leadership position, another of his passions.