Christal Batey, over the past 20 years, has dedicated her professional career to developing products and services for the public and private sector to improve the quality of life of residents of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area. Specializing is geriatric program design and Aging in Place initiatives her expertise has enabled her to serve for the last 12 years on the Prince George's County Advisory Committee on Aging, as the Chairperson for Lifespan Products and Services Board and a trustee for Mid-Atlantic Lifespan, a senior service alliance representing over 30,000 Maryland seniors. In 2005 Ms. Batey Aging in Place Program won the Maryland Municipal League Award of Excellence for a Large City and in 2006 was a finalist in the National League of Cities Award of Excellence. Her goal is to improve the quality of life of older adults in the Metropolitan D.C. Area through program design implementation, education, and training for municipalities and the private sector.

Carol McCreary-Maddox has focused her career, for more than 20 years, on the strategic development of human capital and the removal of artificial barriers - some self-imposed - from the workplace. She seeks to apply this same construct to her work with local governments and small non-profits. She has been recognized for her outstanding contributions as instructor and consultant by the USDA Graduate School, the Welfare-to-Work Partnership, and the Enterprise Foundation. Carol has trained at The American University in statistics (B.A), in law and cultural diversity, and is a certified trainer from the Franklin Covey Institute. She teaches a variety of human resource courses as well as courses in meeting effectiveness, communication, change management, and project management. She served as a senior administrator for two executive branches, criminal investigations under Donald Smaltz and Judge Lawrence Walsh - both former independent counsels during the 1990s.