Claudia Romo Edelman is the Founder of the We Are All Human Foundation. Claudia has worked for 25 years with internationally recognized institutions including the United Nations, UNICEF, the Global Fund and the World Economic Forum. She has a track record in launching global campaigns, and she's a master of agenda setting. She has been in the driver's seat of some of the most successful global campaigns in the last decade including: the launch of the SDG's, Product (RED),the creation of the SDG Lions and rebranding of the UN Refugee Agency. Ann Davila Cardinal is a novelist and director of student recruitment for Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) where she earned her MFA in Writing. She also helped create VCFA's winter writing residency in Puerto Rico. She comes from a long line of Puerto Rican writers, including poets Virgilio and Jose Antonio Davila, and her cousin, award-winning fiction writer Tere Davila. Ann lives north of Stowe, Vermont with her husband Doug and son Carlos, and likes to spend her free time cycling, doing fiber arts, and preparing for the zombie apocalypse.

Five Midnights (Tor Teen) was her first solo novel. About Alexandra Beguez I'm an illustrator and cartoonist on the never-ending journey of exploring my voice as a visual storyteller.My stories examine the inner workings and social interactions of my characters. Through a repeating cast of quirky characters, I explore themes such as loneliness, the individual versus society, and unconventional relationships. I blend biographical elements--personal stories or direct observations and gleanings--into my work, allowing me to reveal my own ideas and vulnerabilities by way of illustrated stand-ins.My family's immigrant history also informs much my work. As a child, I would sit and listen attentively for hours as family members recounted stories of their youth. There was an urgency to my listening; it felt very important to witness their recitation.

Now, it's my duty to preserve and carefully document these stories. The need to chronicle stories extends to my fictional work, where I aim to faithfully detail my characters' escapades.My illustrations are created using an array of traditional materials, including gouache, colored pencil, crayon, and ink. Recently, I have embraced working digitally on my iPad for my sequential work.Select clients include Macmillan, The Brandywine Museum of Art, The Nib, IDW Publishing, BOOM! Studios, The Believer Magazine, Longreads, Chronicle Books, Abrams Books, The Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, Locust Moon Press, and AMMO Magazine.