Erin McCluskey has worked in design education for over ten years. She has served as the Public Education Manager at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and as the Executive Director of the Center for Architecture Foundation. She has also worked at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the South Street Seaport Museum and with the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment. Prior to moving to New York, she was a middle and high school classroom teacher in Alameda, California. Erin holds a double BA from Beloit College in studio art and art history, and an MFA in writing from California College of the Arts. Erin is on the board of the New York City Museum Educators Roundtable and was the NYCMER President from 2008 – 2010.

In 1997 David received a BA with honors in Creative Writing from the University of Derby in the United Kingdom. After several years working for local government in England and a year spent traveling the world, he settled in New York and managed four city senior centers for The Caring Community from 2005 – 2010. David will graduate with a Master's in Public Administration from Baruch College in May. He received the United Way Senior Fellows award in 2009 and a Clark Foundation scholarship in 2010. He will talk to anyone about soccer.