Georgeanne Michelle Usova, a founder of Michelle's Earth Foundation, is graduating from George Mason University in December 2006 with a B.A. in political theory and law, and plans to begin a J.D. program in 2007. She is currently employed at the Human Rights Campaign nonprofit in the Field Department, where she efficiently handles and organizes incoming questions and requests from the public regarding the organization's work, including membership and donations issues, state legislative interpretations, and political endorsements. She has worked on a number of political campaigns as a volunteer, and has been actively involved in numerous organizations through her university.

These experiences have prepared her to provide the time, dedication, and skills necessary to make MEF a successful organization. In addition, Georgeanne is extremely personally committed to the goals of MEF due to her close friendship with Michelle Gardner-Quinn, for wh om the foundation is named.

Rachele is a 21-year old senior at the George Washington University in DC, where she hopes to graduate in May with a degree in Political Communication. She has been interested in 'saving the world' ever since she was a baby whose parents took her to marches on the Mall in a stroller. Her "radical hippie" schooling at the HB Woodlawn program in Arlington, Virginia also helped to raise her consciousness about the importance of economic, environmental, and social justice in all parts of the globe. Rachele has volunteered, worked, and been active with rganizations including Jubilee USA Network, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Brit Tzedek-V'Shalom, Mobilization for Global Justice, Habitat for Humanity, Planned Parenthood VOX, the Genocide Intervention Network, Feminist Majority Foundation, Save Darfur Coalition, and many more. Rachele enjoys having fun with friends but strives to always live by the motto "tzedek, tzedek, tirdof" or "justice, justice, shall you pursue".

James A. (Jim) Egenrieder graduated from Penn State in 1986 as a fisheries and wildlife biologist, but moved to Washington, D.C. in 1987 to begin a decade-long career in agricultural and environmental policy. In 1997 he started his own company, Adventure Sports of Arlington, teaching whitewater kayaking, SCUBA diving and mixed-gas diving while working on a Master's degree in Science Education and Curriculum (Virginia Tech, 1999). After teaching biology and agriculture for eight years at Arlington Public Schools’ Career Center and H-B Woodlawn Program, he took a two-year position as Assistant Professor of Science Education at Virginia Tech while completing his doctorate in Science Education. At Virginia Tech he studies the impact of religion and politics on science education and he promotes an increased emphasis on community-oriented, project-based teaching and learning. He is currently the Chairman of the Arlington Extension Leadership Council and President of the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa. Jim and his wife, Diane Allemang, and their dogs split their time between Arlington, Virginia and their research farm in Hampshire County, West Virginia.

Ian Willson is a 23 year old currently in his senior year at Virginia Commonwealth University majoring in sociology. For the last two years he has worked for a non-profit thrift store whose proceeds went towards serving the gay community of Richmond, Virginia. He spent a large part of the summer of 2006 in Southern Mexico, learning about grassroots organizing and community building. In the latter part of the summer he spent a few weeks in New Orleans, working first alongside Michelle providing relief to families in need through the Church of the Annunciation. He then went on to work with the Common Ground Collective, gutting houses and helping to build a community center in the upper ninth ward. Last year he volunteered as a tutor for youth in correctional facilities incarcerated largely for incidences of sexual violence. He currently belongs to the student organization SAVES which is dedicated to raising awareness on domestic violence and sexual assault. In the upcoming semester he will be helping to organize a comprehensive program within VCU that focuses on male awareness and prevention of sexual assault.

Tommy Lang graduated from the academically challenging and independently minded H-B Woodlawn program in Arlington, VA in 2003 with Michelle and many of the officers of MEF. He is currently a 22 year-old Junior at the University of Vermont in Burlington, VT where he is majoring in Political Science with a focus on political theory and foreign policy. Tommy has worked for multiple professors in the Political Science department as a research assistant, as well as being a TA for a race relations class which involved leading discussion groups and giving a student lecture to a class of 150 students. He has been on the Dean's List all three years at UVM and takes part in the Honors Program for Political Science. Tommy plans to go to graduate school, with possible goals of being a professor, working in government, and/or journalism in some form, but with the overall mission of making the world a better, safer, cleaner, and more prosperous place for both human societies and natural ecosystems.

Thomas Henry Culhane is a Sustainable Development Consultant and a Teaching Assistant in Biology and Environmental Science at American University in Cairo, Egypt. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Analysis and Policy: Renewable Energy, Anthropogenic Nature Construction, Urban Ecosystem Services, Water and Energy Use and Sustainable Development with Professor Randall Crane at the UCLA Dept. of Urban Planning. Culhane has a Masters Degree in Regional and International Development/Environmental Analysis and Policy from UCLA and a B.A. cum laude in Biological Anthropology from Harvard College.

Randy McKnight is among the founding teachers of the H-B Woodlawn Program in Arlington Public Schools, and he was Michelle’s high School English teacher. Randy has a long history in coordinating student projects, taking students on outdoor adventures, and providing students with advice in higher education and career decisions.

G. N. Rassam, Executive Director of American Fisheries Society (AFS). AFS is a nonprofit, scientific membership organization with the primary mission of professional development and education. Dr. Rassam has served as executive of several nonprofit, 501c3, organizations in the past 30 years. His current works involves programs related to conservation of natural resources and mentoring programs for high-school students.

Sophia Vinogradov, MD, is a researcher of psycho-biological human laboratory research in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF. She is a graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine, and she completed her post-graduate Psychiatry Residency at Stanford. Her research areas include neurocognitive aspects of schizophrenia, computer-based cognitive training strategies in schizophrenia, and cognitive models of delusional ideation.

Sarah Wiley, mother of three girls, has been involved with local environmental, child welfare, and arts organizations for fourteen years. She has worked as a children's advocate for the Fairfax County Court System, as a reading tutor for both adults and children, as a dedicated volunteer for the Falls Church Public School system's ecology program, and as an author promoting hometown culture in the monthly newspaper "Art in the City." She has an undergraduate degree in Fine Art, and a Masters in Education.