Katie Dwyer’s childhood was spent in a pastor-led Friends Meeting in North Carolina and then an unprogrammed Friends Meeting in Virginia.  She married Larry Dwyer under the care of Reno (NV) Friends Meeting and has two daughters Lyn and Lauren.  From 1992 – 2001, the family attended Portland (ME) Friends Meeting and returned to Reno in August 2001.  She has a BS in Elementary Education, an MBA, and currently works in Truckee Meadows Community College’s Budget Office.

Elliott Parker is the webmaster for the Reno Friends meeting, but his day job is being a Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he maintains his own website and teaches courses in comparative economics, international trade, international monetary relations, and microeconomics.  He has been an occasional Attender of the Reno Friends Meeting since 1998, has led discussions on globalization and poverty for the Meeting, and loves to work as an occasional staff member for children's summer camp programs at the Mendocino Sufi Camp.  Reuben and Maya are the light and focus of his life, and regular participants in First Day School programs.

Betsy has been attending Reno Friends Meeting since sometime in the late 1980’s. She was born in Reno, but grew up mostly in Wyoming. Betsy’s beloved grandmother, who was involved with the Friends Meeting in State College, PA, was her Quaker role model. Betsy has been a pinch hitter for the Meeting, taking on a wide variety of roles over the years (newsletter, treasurer, recording clerk, religious education, co-clerk). Betsy studied math at Wyoming and much later, economics here in Reno. Currently, she is a researcher in the Resource Economics department. She is married to Sami, an Egyptian-American Muslim and engineering professor. They met when they were both attending the University of Wyoming and started off their married life together in Saudi Arabia. They have a son and a daughter who both have degrees in math and are now continuing with math graduate work.