Lenore Blank Kelner is a Kennedy Center teaching artist who is a professional actress, theatre director, author, and educator. Ms. Kelner serves as an education consultant to the Maryland State Department of Education as well as school systems and schools nationwide and abroad. She has trained thousands of teachers in how to integrate drama into everyday classroom instruction. She has worked with students in all grade levels from Pre K through college. She has written three books on drama and education. Her first book, The Creative Classroom is in its 15th printing. Her most recent book, A Dramatic Approach to Reading Comprehension, which she co-authored, was published by Heinemann in 2006. She is the recipient of the 2004 Creative Drama Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. lbkcompany.com

Glenis Redmond is a Kennedy Center teaching artist who is an award-winning performance poet, praise poet, educator, and writer from Greenville, South Carolina. As a Performance Poet, she has traveled both domestically and abroad for almost two decades working with children and adults—opening poetic doors to self-proclaimed poetry haters and speaking a kindred language to poetry lovers. Her work has been published in various literary journals including: The Tidal Basin Review, Meridians, Heartstone, Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review, Bum Rush the Page: Def Poetry Jam, and Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance. Ms. Redmond is the recipient of the North Carolina Literary Award and is a Cave Canem Fellow. She earned a MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College.

Maria Barbosa is a Kennedy Center teaching artist. She received a B.S. in Biology from USP, Brazil, and a Ph.D. in Botany from UC Riverside. Ms. Barbosa's work explores the ways language and signs liberate or pigeonhole individuals. Her installations and artist's books are exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is in the collections of The National Institutes of Health, the Getty Research Institute, the Art Institute of Chicago, Cornell University, and The National Museum of Women in the Arts. She participates in Artist-in-Education programs in Maryland, and gives workshops on arts integration around the country. Ms. Barbosa teaches at the Maryland Artist/Teacher Institute (MATI) and at the Teaching Artists Institute (TAI) in Maryland.

Deborah Sunya Moore, a Kennedy Center teaching artist, is a percussionist and arts educator. She is currently an associate professor and arts education specialist for the University of Trinidad and Tobago. Ms. Moore was previously the director of education for the Louisville Orchestra and continues to perform regularly with the Chautauqua Symphony (NY). She was the artistic director (1999-2005) and percussionist (1996-2003) of Tales & Scales, a national touring quartet for youth. Ms. Moore has led professional development workshops and courses for organizations such as the Kravis Center, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Kentucky Center for the Arts. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and is completing a Master's in Education Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Cincinnati.