Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS, FTxSGS is an academic librarian, college educator, and tech nerd who has been researching her family history since 1997. She is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at California State University, Fullerton, and teaches an online graduate-level genealogical research methods and librarianship course for San Jose State University. Colleen is a nationally recognized speaker and educator specializing in methodology, Mexican & Hispanic research, libraries and archives, and technology. She incorporates digital storytelling into all areas of her professional work and genealogy research.

Kimberly T. Powell, AG®, is a genealogical educator, researcher, and author with a passion for researching hard-to-find families in the Carolinas and Virginia and sharing her love of genealogy with others through teaching. Her journey includes early work in AI and cognitive science at Carnegie Mellon in the late 1980s. For sixteen years (2000–2016), she blogged about family history as the Genealogy Expert at About.com, developing her distinctive approach to genealogical writing. She is the Director of Education for the National Genealogical Society (NGS) and teaches at major genealogical institutes, including the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, and the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research. She specializes in teaching writing methodology for genealogists at Boston University’s Certificate in Genealogy program and through her Writing for Discovery course.

Robert Raymond is a deputy to FamilySearch Chief Genealogical Officer, David Rencher. He works to increase the genealogical soundness of FamilySearch products. Robert frequently presents at national, regional, and local conferences, including NGS, FGS, RootsTech, NERGC, New York, BYU, and UGA. He served as a director of the National Genealogical Society from 2012 to 2018. For a decade, he wrote (pseudonymically) a top-ranked genealogy blog about Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, records, and methodology. Robert is a genealogical technologist who worked for more than 30 years in software engineering and has worked professionally in the genealogical industry since 2002. Before FamilySearch, he worked at Ancestry.com. Before that he helped found a storage technology company acquired by Symantec. He holds over a dozen technology patents and earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University, where he was honored as a Kimball Scholar.

Adriana Gormly Andrews is a native New Yorker now residing in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband, Gary. She retired in 2019 from a career as an Assistant Superintendent for Business for school districts on Long Island. Adriana holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Policy from Cornell University, a Master of Education degree and an advanced certificate in School Business Administration from CW Post University. She is a proud grandma to two young boys and is a life-long family historian. Since retiring, Adriana has earned a certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University, has graduated from the ProGen study program, and is active on the boards of two local genealogy societies. Her recent writing projects include: a book celebrating six generations of poets in her family, a family narrative about a Gormly Irish famine immigrant, and family narratives for two Spanish immigrant ancestral lines.

Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS, FTxSGS is an academic librarian, college educator, and tech nerd who has been researching her family history since 1997. She is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at California State University, Fullerton, and teaches an online graduate-level genealogical research methods and librarianship course for San Jose State University. Colleen is a nationally recognized speaker and educator specializing in methodology, Mexican & Hispanic research, libraries and archives, and technology. She incorporates digital storytelling into all areas of her professional work and genealogy research.