Margaret Cooley has a Master of Education with over 40 years of experience. She has worked in research at Stanford Heart Disease Prevention Program, taught courses for the American Red Cross, and through her own health promotion company, provided disease prevention and health education classes in San Francisco Bay Area medical centers and corporations. Margaret resides in Northern California.

Susy Hymas has Bachelor of Science degrees in both Environmental Health and Nutrition. She worked for over 40 years as a Nutrition Educator with a variety of age groups.  Her experience ranged from working with families with children in the Head Start Program and Women, Infants and Children's program to the Meals on Wheels program educating Seniors. Her love of healthy food led her to running her own business teaching others how to safely preserve food throughout the Northwest. She taught nutrition and food safety to Culinary students at Bellingham Technical College. She resides in Northwest Washington.