Toc Dunlap BA JD is an experienced educator and teacher trainer and has worked with Afghans since 1967. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Herat and Charikar for 4 years and worked as administrator of refugee programs in Pakistan for 8 years. Additionally, she helped to found an alternative school in Jackson, California and was an international lawyer with Ford Motor Company for 8 years.

Sakena Yacoobi BS MPH was a Professor at D'etre University in Detroit. Returning to work with her own people in 1992, she founded the Afghan Institute of Learning, an Afghan women’s NGO which provides teacher training, health and education services to 350,000 Afghan women and children annually. She co-founded and is Vice President of Creating Hope International, a U.S. non-profit.