Jodi Pfarr of Minneapolis, MN, brings to her audiences the knowledge gained from direct experience with not-for-profit organizations. Pfarr served as Executive Director of Emma Norton Services, providing housing to single women with low-incomes, mental illness and/or chemical dependency issues. She worked for several years for Catholic Charities supervising low-income housing units for people with mental illness, chronic inebriation, and/or low-incomes. This followed her post of supervising the Special Needs Shelter for the Salvation Army.

Pfarr holds a Master of Divinity degree, and is formerly a certified critical debriefer for the St. Paul Police Department. She wrote the book Tactical Communication for law enforcement. She is familiar with the police culture and the challenges officers face. She has advised several city and county agencies on projects relating to poverty issues. Pfarr has been a consultant for aha! Process since 2001 and shares her experiences on the DVD Jodi's Stories.

Chris Farrell is economics editor of Marketplace Money, a nationally syndicated one-hour weekly personal finance show produced by American Public Media. Chris is also economics correspondent for Marketplace, the largest business program in broadcasting and chief economics correspondent for American RadioWorks, the largest producer of long-form documentaries in public radio. He is also contributing economics editor at Business Week magazine. He was host and executive editor of public television's Right on the Money. He is the author of two books: Right on the Money: Taking Control of Your Personal Finances; and Deflation: What Happens When Prices Fall. Chris is a graduate of Stanford and the London School of Economics.

Rachel J. Perry is a Principal at Strategic Data Analytics, LLC. SDA is a data analysis consulting firm which helps organizations use data to celebrate successes, analyze client service effectiveness, increase organizational efficiency, impress funders and increase revenue, and to grow internal capacity to use data in support of organizational goals. Ms. Perry is frequently asked to speak at national and regional conferences regarding strategic data analysis for legal aid organizations and consults for various individual legal aid organizations. She was formerly the Research & Data Analyst at The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland where she conducted data analyses for internal management and funder reports using internal client and case data and external demographic data. Ms. Perry has a Masters of Public Administration in Public Finance and Policy Analysis from the School of Public & Environmental Affairs at Indiana University where she was a Lilly Fellow. Her previous work experience includes serving as an operations and finance director for a non-profit organization, overseeing economic development efforts for a municipality, conducting poverty analysis at a university research center, management consulting, and investment banking.

Judge Korey Wahwassuck was appointed to the bench for Itasca County by Governor Dayton in 2013 after previously serving as the Associate Judge of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Tribal Court. She helped found and preside over the Leech Lake-Cass County-Itasca County Wellness Courts, the first joint tribal-state jurisdiction courts in the nation. Judge Wahwassuck has also served as a tribal attorney with Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, a solo practitioner in Missouri and Kansas and an adjunct instructor at Leech Lake Tribal College. She graduated from the University of Missouri School of Law and also has a Bachelors of Journalism from the University of Missouri.