Joan Franklin Smutny is the Director of the Center for Gifted at National-Louis University in Evanston, Illinois.
Sally Yahnke Walker, Ph.D., is a consultant, an educator, an advocate for gifted children, and the Executive Director for the Illinois Association for Gifted Children. She has piloted programs to create a broad-based level of support for talented students in public school districts, provided in-service training for teachers, and facilitated workshops for parents of gifted children.
Elizabeth A. Meckstroth, M.Ed., M.S.W., is the Coordinator of the Gifted Resource Center in Evanston, and has counseled families of gifted children for over 15 years.
