MODERATORS Moderator: Banty is the single mother by choice of Roger, born in October of 1992. She has been on-line since 1993 on the early days of AOL and on Fidonet, and has been posting on misc.kids since 1995. Texas born and bred, she now lives in upstate New York and is employed by a Rather Large Computer Company working in microelectronic engineering. Moderator: Christopher Biow has been a misc.kidder since mid-1995. He has two children, Abigail (2/95) and Mark (9/96). Chris administers the misckids.org website and the moderation robot software for misc.kids.moderated, rec.food.cusine.jewish, and soc.support.aids-hiv+. He is also involved with his church's Religious Education program. Moderator: Tom Farley born 1/44 has an MA in theatre arts. He is an actor, storyteller, writer, bookseller in child/parent/ teacher bookstores, and Quaker child/teen programs leader. He's the father of Ben (5/76), electronic games tester & Sue (9/79, dyslexic) college student; and spouse of Sandy (11/42), ESL teacher, storyteller, and volunteer with Balkan Sunflowers in Albania and Kosova. On the Internet, Tom is owner/manager of the Sleepwetting Forum and Spontaneous Combustion Storytellers web-sites and the lists EnuresisKids (moderated) and EnuresisParents. Tom lives in Northern California. Moderator: Karen Glaesemann has been on USENET since sometime around 1993 and posting in the misc.kids hierarchy since 1999. She holds a B.S degree in Chemistry and was formerly employed as an agricultural chemist. Currently, Karen spends a fair amount of time doing marketing and technical communication and lives on the left coast with her husband of 10+ years and three children under the age of five (none of which are twins). Karen moderates a few mailing lists and is also a moderator for rec.arts.sf.starwars.info. Moderator: Robyn Kozierok is a long-time misc.kids hierarchy participant. She began reading around 1988, and was a regular poster for several years after the birth of her first child in 1993. She has three sons, Ryan (9/93), Matthew (6/96) and Evan (3/01). She also moderates misc.kids.info and is an advisor to soc.culture.jewish.parenting. You can look her up in the 1994 and 1995 misc.kids yearbooks. Moderator: Tracy Lee Murphy is mom to Thomas Russell (8/94), Timothy (homebirthed 5/97) and Thaddeus (homebirthed 10/01). She's participated in the misc.kids community since 1994. Her other 'Net involvement includes running mailing lists for moms-to-be interested in natural birthing and for parents of spirited children; and a member of email lists discussing bi-racial children, attachment parenting, spinning and knitting. A native Californian she now makes her home in Maine. Moderator: Robin Netherton has been married since 1990 and has two sons, Graham (9/93) and Roger (5/96). Together, she and her husband total 88 years of age. Robin has a journalism background and now works at home as a freelance editor. She first found misc.kids when she began reading Usenet in 1994. She also is a member of two age-related parenting lists as well as several professional and hobby lists. She appears in the 1996 photoalbum and is the proud wearer of a misc.kids t-shirt. Moderator: Jennifer O'Neal-Watts is a full-time working mom, stepmom, wife to Johnny, and student. She is the mother of three (soon to be four) children as well as stepmother to four sons. The kids range in age from 14 down to the newest due in November 2000 with the six oldest being boys. Jennifer has just finished her 2nd year of law school and hopes to complete that in May of 2001. She's been involved with Usenet since 1994 and has been reading Misc.kids since then. She also was a part of the 1996 photo album committee. Moderator: Dawn Price has read misc.kids since 1994 and has one child, Henry. She works full time and her wonderful employer allows her to arrange that work around school hours. She's been very active in school activities, PTA, etc. She's also interested in adoption issues (Henry is adopted). Her family is in the 1996 misc.kids photoalbum. ADVISORS Advisor: Marion Baumgarten is 41 and married to Jon for the past 19 years. She works in personnel administration for a Federal agency. She is also mother to the original wunderkinder- Martha (13) and Peter (10) and a former foster parent. She has been posting to misc.kids since 1993 and to misc.kids.moderated since its inception. Advisor: Lisa Curhan is Mom to Benjamin (4/95). She's been following misc.kids since he was conceived, and she's been a USENET enthusiast since 1992. She has a Masters in Electrical Engineering and has been working as a EE for various computer companies for about 15 years. Advisor: Ann Porter (porteram60@charter.net) is the married mother of three: Karen (1980), Sean (1986), and Mark (1999), and the grandma of Michael, (2002). She wandered into mkm in 1997 and was a moderator from late 2000 until late 2002. She was a moderator on soc.religion.mormon for two years and still participates there. Ann was born in Ohio and lived there for most of her adult life, but her husband turned out to be migratory and she has moved three times in the last six years. She does database programming and web site maintenance for an offshore oil services company in New Orleans, working from her home in the 'burbs 2-3 days per week. Advisor: Catherine Moore (clm@pdq.net) is Mom to Brendan (1/91) and Emmett (8/93). Moderator to misc.kids.moderated since its inception. Advisor since March 2003. She is also a software engineer and volunteer for many different youth-oriented activities. [last modified, 27 October 2003: added Karen Glaesemann as moderator and transferred Marion Baumgarten to Advisor status]