MotherWoman runs by many hands. Some of them are introduced here.

Annette Cycon
Annette is the founding force behind MotherWoman. She is a former Child and Family Therapist at Franklin/Hampshire Community Mental Health Center (now ServiceNet) and facilitator of Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse groups at The Every Woman's Center of UMass. She also completed 3 years of professional & teacher training at The Synthesis Center. She is the mother of a teen daughter and a pre-teen daughter.

Gabrielli LaChiara
Gabrielli is a former Clinical Supervisor at DARE Family Services in Western Mass, an agency which provides speicalized foster care to emotionally disturbed youth and their families. She is currently the Mental Health Specialist at The Parent Child Development Center of Franklin County. She also has a private counseling practice in Amherst, MA. She is the mother of a grade-school-aged son.

Shannon Gamble
Shannon is the artist of MotherWoman, and the co-editor of the Journal. She has two middle-school aged daughters.

Meguey Baker
Meguey is the facilitator and long-time member of the drop-in MotherWoman group at the Amherst Family Center, a graduate of the MW! facilitator training program and of both 8-week and one-day Soulful Journey MW! workshops. She is the person responsible for any code errors or typos on the web-site. She's been playing with fabric and various code programs (although not usually together) for many years, and has two boys in lower elemetary school.