Lucy Recio is a network weaver, strategist, and resource mobilizer. For more than 15 years she has worked at the intersection of movement building, communications, policy, and advocacy and now serves as the co-founder and principal consultant of Third Bloom Consulting, a social impact firm that partners with child care and early learning programs, schools, nonprofit organizations, and philanthropic partners to strategize, co-create, and deliver services and products aimed at improving the well-being and thriving of educational leaders, teams, and learning communities. She is driven by an unwavering commitment to justice and our collective liberation and endeavors to enact systems change, shift power structures, and shape public understanding and perception, particularly around issues impacting children, youth, women, and BIPOC communities.

Frank George IV is a dedicated Montessorian, advocate, and world-builder who believes that Belonging and the Montessori philosophy has the power to create a more inclusive and sustainable world by empowering a generation of imagination activists. Applying the principles of Montessori, permaculture, and emergent strategies to imagine and develop expansive visions of community, he believes that we can build a world aligned in a harmonious network of global systems. Whether he's teaching, writing, or dreaming, Frank's passion is inspiring others to unite in Rewilding Montessori to renew our planet, society, schools, homes, and souls!