Stacy Parker lives in the Los Angeles area and has been married for seventeen years. she is the mother of three.

Terri Danile is an author, grief guidance facilitator and afterlife awareness educator.

Sally McDonald is a wife and mother of three, two boys and Maggie who has many disabilities.

Dianne Gray is President of Hospice and Healthcare Communications, a company committed to improving and creating quality hospice and palliative care programming globally.

Tom Zuba is a father, author, inspirational speaker, and workshop facilitator

Tara Manjunath is a caregiving mom to two fantastic boys.  Her oldest has Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and is in remission from Hepatoblastoma...

Joe and Janis Wuelfing are bereaved parents and founders of the Markie Foundation.

Tiffany Christensen is the author of "Sick Girl Speaks!" and educator of patient advocacy, survivor of cystic fibrosis.

Lisa Buell is a writer, activist, mother of three and co-parent of two with her wife of seventeen years.

Lisa DeLong is mother, wife, registered nurse, and a certified bereavement facilitator.

Tom Snell is a proud grandparent and retired teacher / software developer who is now writing his second book.

Georgine Balassone lost her twin brother before their first birthday. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Lisa Schoyer is a wife, a mom, and collaborating on a parent-involved research consortium...

Deborah Dokken co-founded the nonprofit community-based organization, Partners in Intensive Care...

Leslie Adams,MSW, is the Pediatric Palliative Care Program Coordinator for Trinity KidsCare Hospice…

Christy Torkildson, RN, PHN, MSN, specializes in pediatric palliative and end of life care. She is currently the Director of RN's at Unitek College…

Paola Bruni is a writer, editor, and consumer advocate living in Aptos, California…

David Browning MSW, BCD is Senior Scholar and Co-Director of Patient Safety and Quality Initiatives at the Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice, Children’s Hospital Boston (CHB)...

Lorry Frankel, MD is a professor of pediatrics (Critical Care and Palliative Care Medicine) at Stanford University.

Shannon Snow ,
Proud parent of Tyler Snow, a birth child, and Nick Snow, an adopted son. Nick was diagnosed with high risk Neuroblastoma at the age of 6. He died in April 2006 from an infection, but cancer free.

Jim Santucci lives in northern California and has been married for 19 years. His daughter and only child died in the fall of 2008.

Betty Davies, RN, PhD, FAAN, Dr. Davies is Professor Emerita in the Department of Family Health Care School of Nursing, University of California San Francisco...

Laura Davis - lost her identical twin sister at birth. Laura has authored seven non-fiction books. "Writing has been a companion of mine my whle life. I have used my words to understand myself, to provoke, to educate, to inspire...

Huda Bayaa a graduate of UCSB and currently works in television production finance. Huda's sister, Ruba, passed away of a brain tumor three years ago after spending 17 of 18 years of her life battling cancer...