Barbara Cervone coordinated Walter H. Annenberg's $500 million "Challenge" to improve the nation's public schools from its inception in January 1994 until June 2000. As national coordinator she directed the research, communications, and sharing and learning among the Challenge's 18 school reform projects. Previously, Dr. Cervone served as associate director of the Rhode Island Foundation, one of the country's ten largest community foundations. She has been a consultant in program evaluation and an investigator for several national education research projects. She also has written extensively about school reform. Early in her career, she worked in the alternative school movement, first as a researcher and later as the coordinator of a network of alternative high schools in ten states. Barbara Cervone lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Kathleen Cushman is a writer who has specialized in education and school reform for almost two decades. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Education Letter, Educational Leadership, Phi Delta Kappan, the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, and many other national magazines. Cushman has been writer and editor of two school reform journals, Horace and Challenge Journal. She is the author or co-author of ten books, including First in the Family (Next Generation Press, 2005, 2006), Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students (New Press, 2003), Schooling for the Real World with Adria Steinberg and Rob Riordan (Jossey-Bass, 2000) and The Real Boys Workbook, with William S. Pollack (Random House, 2001). She lives in New York City.

Jay Douglas (webmaster) is a freelance web designer/webmaster living in New York City.

Joanna Klonsky, who graduated in December 2006 from Bard College, works part-time with WKCD as a writer and administrative assistant. At Bard, she majored in Political Science and Latin American and Iberian Studies. Originally from Chicago, Joanna currently resides in Chicago.

Montana Miller, an ethnographer and folklorist, specializes in youth culture in her position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Trained as a flying trapeze artist and professional high diver, Dr. Miller has a B.A. from Harvard University and a doctorate from the University of California at Los Angeles. A lifelong news junkie, she provides the WKCD website with its “Kids on the Wire” items. She lives in Perrysburg, Ohio.

Abe Louise Young is a poet, journalist, and educator who specializes in teaching writing for social change. In 1997, she helped to start the Poetry Center at Smith College, which connects the work of the classroom with the world of living poets. After teaching English at Loyola University in Chicago and in several high schools, she discovered that facilitating creative writing projects with youth and people in challenged communities is her path. Since then, she has created writing circles in prisons, hospitals, homes, schools, and youth and community centers nationwide. Abe Louise Young lives in Austin, Texas.

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Alex Delany works for Greencard Pictures, a New-York based production company and designed this latest version of the website. Originally from just outside Providence, Rhode Island, Alex graduated from the Rhode Island School from Design and then headed to Brooklyn where he now lives and plays boccé.
AAA Foray (Sandy Delany), graphic design, Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Loft Publishing (Martha Brouwer and John Pappenheimer), web consultants, Seattle, Washington
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