Dan Gediman is executive director of This I Believe, Inc., a non-profit organization that engages people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives. These short statements of belief have been featured on public radio nationally since 2005. Gediman is co-editor of the New York Times bestseller This I Believe, as well as seven other This I Believe essay anthologies. Mary Jo Gediman has worked in professional communications for more than twenty-five years as a writer, editor, and project manager. Since joining This I Believe in 2006, she has worked collaboratively to extend the reach of the project into secondary schools, colleges/universities, library systems, public radio stations, newspapers, and local communities nationwide. Gediman is an editor of the award-winning This I Believe website and is co-editor of the books This I Believe: On Love, This I Believe: On Motherhood, This I Believe: On Fatherhood, This I Believe: Life Lessons, and This I Believe: Kentucky. Elisabeth Perez-Luna has been working as a journalist and independent audio producer for National Public Radio and other news and documentary networks for several decades. She has been at WHYY since 1999, first as news director and now as the executive producer of audio content. She is the producer of special series such as This I Believe-Philadelphia, Impact of War--Pennsylvania, and other programs, sound portraits, audio environments, and features for radio and web. Perez-Luna has received numerous awards for her national and regional work.