Kai Issa is a freelance writer and managing editor with The Howard Thurman Papers Project at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Jackson Issa lives in Clarkston, Georgia, with her husband and their two children. Arthur Dawson is a self-taught artist who grew up in Wakulla County, Florida. With an established career as a fine artist, Dawson also spends time teaching art to young people as part of his two nonprofit endeavors: the Youth Art Program and Younique Art Parables. He lives in California but often returns to his native Florida.