Laing F. Rikkers grew up in New York City, attended Harvard College and received an MA in Psychology from Columbia University. She spent eighteen years working in private equity and is a founder and Executive Chairman of ProSomnus Sleep Technologies which develops medical devices for the treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea. She currently lives in Cardiff, California, with her husband, children, and dogs.

Kelly Leahy Radding honors the natural world she loves through her art. She finds all aspects of nature interesting subjects for her paintings. Animals, plants, butterflies, rocks, the sometimes overlooked minute details of Nature, are to her an integral and necessary part of the whole. Kelly grew up in rural Connecticut on the edge of a state forest and has come full circle living on a farm in Columbia, Connecticut at the end of a dirt road surrounded by woods. She shares the farm with her husband, her brother, three gray cats, seven elderly goats and one perfect border collie.