Suzanne King is a freelance journalist based in Kansas City, Mo. She has held reporting and editing positions with The Kansas City Star, The Kansas City Business Journal and other newspapers in the northeastern United States. Suzanne has spent time covering education, municipal governments and businesses in the telecommunications industry. She holds a bachelor's degree from Boston University and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She and her husband have three children.

Maureen Finn has lived in Brazil since January 1984, after doing parish work in Selma, Alabama, for 8 years. In Brazil she has done pastoral ministry in small communities in central west Brazil, and currently is the regional coordinator for the Conference of Brazilian Religious in the state of Goias. She lives in community with Joana Mendes and three other Sisters of St. Joseph of Rochester.