Michael Snyder (Portland, OR) is the president of TheRawDiet.com, and an expert on vegetarian and vegan raw foods nutrition. He has been active in the raw foods community for the past nine years. He has studied with Viktoras Kulvinskas, the founder of the modern raw foods movement and with Gabriel Cousens, one of its best known proponents. As a health coach, Snyder assists clients worldwide in transitioning to raw foods. He provides keynote addresses and presentations, food prep demonstrations, seminars, and teleseminars throughout the Pacific Northwest and across the country. Nancy Faass, MSW, MPH (San Francisco, CA) is a full-time freelance writer and editor based in San Francisco. She holds a master's in public health from UC Berkeley.

Nancy has coauthored seven books in health and medicine. She is a local chapter board member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and a member of the American Medical Writers Association and the Northern California Science Writers' Association. Nancy has just launched a new website on health, nutrition, and fitness at www.TheFitFoodie.com. Lorena Novak Bull, RD (Riverside, CA) is a graduate of the Nutrition and Dietetics program at Loma Linda University. She has spent the last fourteen years working as a registered dietitian in public health and has more than twenty-five years of experience with vegetarian, vegan and raw vegan lifestyles. She is a member of the American Dietetic Association.