Jane Brown is both an adoption social worker/educator and an adoptive & foster mother of nine children, some of whom are now grown. She lives and works in Arizona. She serves on the editorial board of Adoptive Families Magazine and writes a regular parenting column for the publication. She is the creator of Adoptive Playshops which is a series of workshops for adopted children age five+, their non-adopted siblings, and adoptive parents in which children are helped through playful, multisensory activities to explore growing up in an adoptive family and racial identity, plus develop skills for dealing with societal attitudes and beliefs about adoption and includes helping children resist and confront racism and bullying.

Pat Convery is Executive Director of the Adoption Council of Ontario, and is involved in education, support and advocacy within the adoption community in Ontario. She is a social worker and has worked in child welfare since 1975 and in adoption, both private and public, since 1984. She has been involved in training of adoption workers, assessing families and supporting families after placement of children.

Louisa Corbett and her husband Rob are the adoptive parents of two girls. They adopted Lillia from China in 2003 when she was nine months old, and Zara from South Africa in 2006 when she was four months old. Both girls had been abandoned. Louisa and her husband are very active in taking parenting workshops offered by their adoption agency, and have tried to learn as much as they can about their daughters' birth countries. In her professional life, Louisa is a voice and musical theatre performer and teaches at George Brown and Sheridan Colleges in Toronto.