Lila Henderson-Leonard, B.A., University of Washington; M.A. and ED.S., Seattle Pacific University; visiting faculty member in the School of Education at Antioch and liaison with the Special Education Endorsement program. Henderson-Leonard has worked as a classroom teacher in a variety of Washington settings in both special education and reading. Her professional interests include special education coursework and demonstration projects, as well as the state Praxis endorsement exams. She holds memberships in the International Reading Association and the Association of Washington School Administrators.

Dominic Jimenez, B.A., Western Washington University; M.Ed., Antioch University Seattle. Jimenez has been a teacher since 1998 and include assignments at several elementary schools in California as well as in Japan. Jimenez is the Senior Teaching Instructor at the Children's Institute for Learning Differences where he introduced the Collaborative Problem Solving Method, a program created by the Collaborative Problem Solving Institute, housed at the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He specializes in developing programs to meet the challenges associated with high-risk children suffering from autism, Asperger syndrome and psychiatric disorders.