Carole Hart is an award-winning television and film producer/writer. She began her career in television working with her partner and husband, Bruce Hart, as one of the original writers of Sesame Street, for which she won her first Emmy. She also produced in partnership with Marlo Thomas the now classic children’s album, Free To Be...You and Me, which they then turned into a book and an Peabody Award-winning television special. Her credits also include a number of movies made for television. Among her favorites are Sooner or Later, a movie musical that generated a top ten song and a Platinum soundtrack album, and Leap of Faith, a ground-breaking true story of a woman who brought her cancer into remission through alternative means. She also created and produced an innovative Emmy-winning NBC series for adolescents, Hot Hero Sandwich, and most recently a multi-award winning mixed-media documentary for the Lifetime Channel, Our Heroes, Ourselves.

Jyoti — (Jeneane Prevatt, Ph.D.) is the Spiritual Director of Center for Sacred Studies and Kayumari and internationally known as a spiritual and psychological consultant working with spiritual emergence as it manifests through the individual and community. Her extensive study of indigenous healing and spiritual practices combined with her training in Jungian and psychological approaches to mental health have inspired a variety of projects. Her spiritual and psychological insights provide a balanced approach to integrating one's life. Her consistent focus is to actively affirm our role as creators of sustainable communities, through business and social reform. She resides at Kayumari in Sonora, California, and travels lecturing across the United States, Europe, South America and Africa.

Ann Rosencranz, M.A, is a counselor, minister, and translator, having traveled nationally and internationally as a liaison to make alliances between indigenous and non-indigenous cultures. She is co-founder and Program Director for Morningstar Foundation (a program of Center for Sacred Studies) which offers spiritual and emotional care for people facing the end of life. Ann resides at Kayumari, a spiritual community in California with her husband, her son and her extended family.

Lynn Schauwecker graduated from the University of Pacific in 1985 with a B.A.. She spent an undergraduate year at Oxford University. Lynn had a ten-year career as a fashion model; she worked with clients such as Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and Marie Claire. In 1996 she left the fashion world to pursue a career in development and fundraising. For the past seven years Lynn has worked with a range of not-for-profit organizations that included Amnesty International, Doctors of the World, Hospice, Planned Parenthood and Tibet House U.S. Her specialty is major gift solicitation and events. During the past seven years she has concentrated on organizing large fundraising events in New York City and also has produced three Women’s Health Conferences for Planned Parenthood.