Shannon has made a life integrating business and art (with a dash of existential crisis for flavor)--and then writing about it. Writing for the stage, Shannon has performed her work in such places as London, New York, Santa Fe and San Francisco, is a Meisner-trained actor, was a regular performer at critically-acclaimed Mortified and is now a company member at Forbidden Kiss--the new sexy cabaret series at The California. Writing for the page, she's working on a book about building (and exploding) a business in the name of art. She also runs a still-operational branding & identity consultancy House of Who. Find more and read her blog at shannondejong.com.

Alia is a multi-disciplinary performing artist and writer. Though she is a quadruple threat, she lacks ambition and as such is not particularly threatening. She's writing a book of humor essays called The Miraculous Ridiculous (see excerpts on her blog). It'll get done one of these days, probably. She is also co-owner of Humans Being Media, a mission-first video production agency creating artful, heartful, and socially enterprising films that make a powerfully positive impact on our communities and our planet.