Debra Guthmann is a nationally recognized lecturer, administrator, researcher, educator, and advocate with over forty years of extensive experience in service to the Deaf community.

Gabriel I. Lomas is a professor of counseling in the Department of Education and Educational Psychology at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT.

Damara Goff Paris is an associate professor of counselor education and co-coordinator of the clinical counseling program at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas.

Gabriel A. "Tony" Martin was Chair of the Department of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education at Lamar University for over twenty years.