Born in Vancouver BC, Cynthia Chambers spent her early childhood in Edmonton, Alberta. From the age of six until her early twenties, Cynthia lived various communities in the Canadian North. She completed her Bachelor of Education in 1978 at the University of Saskatchewan. With her three young children she returned to the north to work for the Government of the NWT, Department of Education and the Fort Good Hope Dene Community Council as a curriculum developer and Dene language specialist. She and her children moved to Victoria BC in 1983, where Cynthia completed her M.A. in Language Arts and her Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies. In 1989 she joined the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge. She teaches courses in curriculum studies, teacher education and literacy education, supervises graduate students and continues to write autobiographically about various topics including colonization, identity, race, language, marriage, love and death and the relationship of these matters to education. She lives in Lethbridge with her daughter, Theresa Erasmus and her granddaughter, Nimeye Koo Win Lewis. Her son, Ché Riel Erasmus lives in Toronto and her son Kristen Lewis Erasmus continues to live in Victoria, BC with his eleven-year old son, Brandon Erasmus.
	Dwayne Donald spent most of his childhood playing hockey on the streets of Edmonton. Later, he attended the University of Alberta and completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1990. Reluctantly, he left Edmonton to attend the University of Calgary where he completed a Bachelor of Education in 1992. Dwayne is currently working on his thesis as part of the Master of Education program at the University of Lethbridge. He teaches Social Studies and English at Kainai High School on the Blood Reserve. Dwayne is the husband of Georgina, and together they live in Fort Macleod with their son Kesho.
	Erika Hasebe-Ludt spent all of her childhood in Germany. Her background is in interdisciplinary studies in first and second languages, literature, and cultural studies, with degrees from the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of British Columbia. She has taught in K-12 classrooms with the Vancouver School Board and in an international teacher education program at Simon Fraser University. Her current research focuses on autobiographical writing and reading in between languages and cultures in local and global texts and postcolonial/poststructural frameworks. She researches and teaches in the areas of teacher education and curriculum in connection with literacy and culture. She divides her time between working in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge and her family in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Saarbrücken, Germany.

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