Nancy Fraser Williams is the current Past-President of the Early Childhood Association of Florida, an early childhood professional and child advocacy association, and has also served as editor of their journal, Children Our Concern. She teaches in the Child Development Program at Santa Fe Community College, received her Master's degree from Michigan State University's Department of Family and Child Sciences, was director of Florida's oldest parent cooperative preschool for many years, and serves on the Alachua County School Readiness Coalition. Mrs. Williams attend the Carnegie Corporation funded Brain Research Training Program. She has written articles for teachers and parents summarizing recent brain development research and informational material for parents about quality child care and children's brain development which is available on-line at [http://www.ECAofFL.org]

Matthew E. Melmed Executive Director, ZERO TO THREE. Matthew Melmed assumed the leadership of ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families in 1994. Since his arrival, ZERO TO THREE has twice successfully competed to establish the Early Head Start National Resource Center for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which provides training and technical assistance to all Early Head Start Programs nationwide. Under his leadership, ZERO TO THREE has also initiated a national public awareness campaign aimed at parents, designed a long-term initiative to expand ZERO TO THREE's capacity to market information and materials to wider audiences, created strong partnerships with corporate partners, and launched a new leadership development initiative. Prior to joining ZERO TO THREE, Mr. Melmed served for 13 years as Executive Director of the Connecticut Association for Human Services (CAHS). Mr. Melmed serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), the nation's leading domestic anti-hunger policy organization, and is on the Board of Directors of the I Am Your Child Foundation. Mr. Melmed is frequently quoted in the news media, including such outlets as the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, Newsweek, Time, USA Today, Washington Post and Miami Herald. [http://www.zerotothree.org/]

Dr. Kimberly S. Young, a licensed psychologist, is executive director of the Center for On-Line Addiction and is an internationally known researcher, author and speaker on the impact of technology on human behavior. Her work has been featured in hundreds of newsprint publications worldwide including major articles in The Wall Street Journal, USAToday, Forbes, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Time and she is a frequent media commentator for radio and television programs including NPR, the BBC, CNBC News, Fox News, Good Morning America, 20/20, The Leeza Show, and ABC's World News Tonight. Young is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Human Resource Management, the Employee Assistance Professionals Association, the National Council for Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, and a founding member of the International Society of Mental Health On-line. [http://www.netaddiction.com/] or read an Chapter 6 from "Caught in the Net"

John Cech is director of the University of Florida Center for the Study of Children's Literature and Media and host/producer of "Recess!", a nationally-distributed public radio children's culture program. Cech is the author of several books for young people including My Grandmother's Journey (1991), First Snow, Magic Snow (1992) and Django (1994). Cech's articles and reviews have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Child, The Horn Book, The New York Times Book Review, Parabola and The Washington Post. Over the years, he has served as the president of the Children's Literature Association, the book review editor of Children's Literature (Yale) from 1982-1996 and a commentator on children's culture for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" (1982-1984). In 1992 he received the Chandler Award for his contributions to the field of children's literature. For more information on the University of Florida's collection of children's literature, check out [http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/baldwin/baldwin.html] [http://www.recess.ufl.edu/]

Longtime Gainesville resident Donna Z. Davis is the mother of three children -- John, 17, Nick, 15 and Rachel, 12 -- and wife of Jeff, a certified financial planner. Donna and Jeff co-host a weekly call-in radio program about financial planning on WSKY-FM in Gainesville, Florida. Donna also works as an adjunct instructor in the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications and is the voice of the Microsoft CD-ROM interactive tutorials for Microsoft Press. Her 15-year full-time public relations career included work in development for PBS and NPR affiliates, saving sea turtles and their habitats for the Caribbean Conservation Corporation, and marketing a real estate development company. Donna also served as the State President of the Florida Public Relations Association. You can hear more about Donna and her family on the nationally-distributed public radio business show "Marketplace" in a feature series called "Family Matters". The program follows three families (the Suzuki's of Tokyo, Japan, the Greenstead's of London, England and the Davises in Gainesville, Florida) and how they handle the "business" of running a family in today's cultures and economies. Check out prior broadcasts at [http://www.marketplace.org/features/family_matters/]