Barry Allen is the Founder of Vanguardians , a non-profit focused on bringing accountability to the public sector. Soon to be taken nationwide, his accomplishments include saving the City of Glendale, California $41million in unnecessary expenses and cleaner, more open City Council Elections. Mr. Allen also served as a lobbyist.

He was the founding C.E.O. of International FieldWorks, a hybrid management consultancy, is on the Board of Directors for Omni Broadcasting, a public company, and recently served as the Vice President of Business Development for RxDispense, Inc.

Barry's background includes the startup, turnaround and management of businesses in Michigan and California . For many years he was the Deputy Director of Civil Defense in Southfield , Michigan , while owning, operating and building a multi-million dollar Physical and Electronic Security corporation.

Mr. Allen was the youngest Private Investigator in the state of Michigan , built his company from a startup to an enterprise with over a thousand employees. Barry created the first national trade association and became a lobbyist for the industry.

Barry managed a Los Angeles business talk radio station, and is a sought after resource for editors and writers of the major news media in Southern California . He has hosted successful business talk radio shows on stations in Southern California and Arizona and is widely published.

Craig Boardman is the Managing Director of Sea Point Capital in Tustin, CA where he provides multi-financing needs of the real estate industry. Craig oversees all loan production and operations of the firm and is responsible for company training programs for staff and public seminars. Although no longer the focus of his business, Craig's background still allows him to serve his clients with accounting, consulting and financial planning services for individuals and medium size business; consulting advice for business plans; audit representation concerning taxation issues; EDP consulting for small business; analysis of marketing and financial reporting systems; EDP systems analysis and liaison for profitability and market research and planning, internal auditing and business acquisition negotiations. Craig's firm provides real estate brokerage services for residential and commercial clients.

Craig earned his M.B.A. at the University of Cape Town, Rhondebosch, South Africa in Finance and Marketing, his B.Sc. at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah and a B.A. from Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. He earned his C.F.P. (Certified Financial Planner) from College of Financial Planning, Denver, CO.

An Ambassador for World Leadership Day in the United States of America , is the Founder and Chair of Fifty-Fifty Leadership, a nonprofit promoting women's equal leadership, and publishes the monthly women's issues emagazine, The Equality Standard.

A consultant, executive coach and the former COO of International FieldWorks , Inc., a global management consulting agency, she is widely published on business practices and management skills, has appeared on a number of radio and television shows.

She created and served as a Commissioner for the City of Glendale Commission on the Status of Women, was appointed to the City of Glendale 's Charter Review Committee, and has served on many nonprofit Boards.

Elizabeth Wieland is a consultant in Clinical Operations for pharmaceutical companies. She has worked in the field since leaving college.

She has helped with clinical trials that have brought often life-saving drugs onto the market in the area of cancer treatments, arthritis, macular degeneration and kidney disease.

Liz is also a volunteer for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, providing research for breast and ovarian cancers.

Edy Rose-Berens is an educator, fine artist, interior designer and color therapist. She has taught Fiber Optic Lighting Design, creating the first such curriculum for the Los Angeles Unified School District . She has also taught Function Art and interior Design as well as English as a Second Language (ESL).

Edy has worked with children and adults of all ages and cultural backgrounds. Her interior design has been widely published and showcased and her fine art has been shown at the Pacific Design Center . She currently teaches art at the Children's Institute in Los Angeles as well as classes at her private studio.

Ellen Snortland was born in Denver, Co. She was raised in South Dakota where crops are grown in some fields and in others, women of strength and determination; women determined to pioneer like their foremothers.

"I heard my father describe Winston Churchill as a Renaissance Man when I was eight years old," says Snortland. "I decided that I would be a Renaissance Woman." Becoming a "Renaissance Woman" was a tall order dream that she proceeded to fulfill as swiftly as she could.
She graduated from Augustana Academy, an experimental private high school, at sixteen, just as the woman's movement was revving up. Ellen moved to California by herself to become a member of the esteemed Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria. She co founded the first all woman theater company in the nation, Theater of Process, which was featured in an early issue of Ms. Magazine and the front cover of the L.A. Times Sunday Calendar section. "I figured in order to get ahead, we'd have to carve out our own niche," Ms. Snortland said, and added, "Besides anyone who can read a recipe can run a theater company or run for president."

The theater company premiered new works as well as classics. After the company integrated men, Snortland produced and starred as Nora in a highly acclaimed production of Ibsen's A Doll's House with co star Ted Danson. She also co wrote and directed shows that were both SRO and received rave reviews in the Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety .

Snortland decided a good "renaissance" move would be to study law after receiving her B.A. cum laude in theater and film at U.C., Irvine. Attending law school at Loyola, Los Angeles, gave her a keen understanding of women's rights as well as responsibilities. After passing the California Bar exam, Ellen jumped feet first into the entertainment industry as a performer and coach. As a performer, she accomplished what many fail to do: she was a working actor in commercials and a regular on two series, "Anything for Money" and "Divorce Court." Ellen temporarily adopted a screen name, Ellen Emory, for a nine month long pilot for TV LITE, a send up television news magazine program at KCRA in Sacramento, California, where she was a TV reporter. Snortland has performed as a singer and stand up comic. She has also done voice over work in TV, cartoons, a kid's audio tape with Shari Lewis, Shelley Duvall's innovative CD ROM interactive project, "It's A Bird's Life," and the Sega/Entergamement's CD ROM project, "Make My Video."

In her professional coaching and consultant role, Ms. Snortland was able to combine her legal counseling expertise, multi faceted life experience, enthusiasm and people skills to teach others to accomplish career goals. She worked as a senior consultant and coach for Impact Studios and Workshops for eight years, working with hundreds of clients, ranging from fledgling singers, frustrated homemakers and corporate lawyers to highly accomplished writer/producers (and everything in between) to increase and hone their productivity through highly personalized one on one motivational and job skills coaching.

She also exercised her leadership talents by producing large live events as well as directing and producing for the "New Candid Camera" pilot and "Totally Hidden Video" series. While segment producing for KingWorld's "Tim and Daphne Reid Show", Snortland was able to apply her smorgasbord of abilities and knowledge.

The eclectic Ms. Snortland has also renovated two Victorian mansions in Los Angeles along with the efforts of other urban pioneers, personally re finishing over 4500 sq. ft. of wood floors. She re-habbed an abandoned ocean-front executive home in Baja, Mexico. Now Snortland is restoring a 2 and 1/2 acre horse ranch built in 1914 in the San Fernando Valley, where she lives.

Ms. Snortland has been a broadcast and print journalist specializing in so called women's issues, including the movement to achieve gender balance in institutions, women in history, reducing violence against women, as well as childhood and adult sexual harassment problems being exposed in society. "With blonde hair and a name like Snortland, you've got to figure I'm going to know something about harassment," says Snortland, who accomplishes as much as she can with her causes using humor. Besides her savvy in gender politics, Ms. Snortland is fluent in domestic and global affairs.

Ms. Snortland particularly advocates nipping sexual harassment in the bud where it actually starts, in the home and on the playground, by empowering girls and women to speak up. As a self-defense advocate, Ellen writes and teaches both women and kids physical self-protection skills. She completed the IMPACT Foundation's International full impact Instructor Training in August 1993.

As a writer producer director humorist actor, dormant lawyer, women's and children's self defense advocate, feminist homemaker, Snortland has the unique ability to speak and write with authority on subjects ranging from knitting and cooking, to S.W.A.T. team methods of close quarter hand to hand combat to the opportunities and obstacles of the professional American woman. Her perspective provides a much needed bridge of understanding between the home, university and the office in a context of feminist theory. True to her Renaissance Woman nature, she is the author of Beauty Bites Beast: Awakening the Warrior Within Women and Girls , (Trilogy Books, Pasadena, 1998), recently featured on Dateline NBC.

A weekly columnist with the Pasadena Weekly, Ellen Snortland delivers social commentary in her popular column "Consider This..." She has been described as California's Molly Ivins with her own unique humor, vast experience, and an abiding commitment to social change. She emerged as a fresh and progressive voice of the '90s, a Renaissance decade for women and continues her provocative column into the new century.

Snortland has published commentary in the L.A. Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Fernando Valley Daily News, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Providence Journal Bulletin, The Charlotte Observer, Arizona Tribune Newspapers, Houston Post, St. Paul Pioneer Press, and Rapid City Journal .

Snortland is a contributor to the Crossing Press anthology, Sexual Harassment: Women Speak Out , edited by Amber Coverdale Sumrall and Dena Taylor. In 1993, she became a member of the Betty Friedan think tank at U.S.C. She is on the Board of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and the United Nation's Association Pasadena-Foothill Chapter. She attended the Non Governmental Organizations Forum as a U.N.A. delegate and as press, covered the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. She also covered the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in August 2001. She received grants from the Better World Campaign to cover the U.N.'s 47 th , 48 th and 49th Commission on the Status of Women.

Ms. Snortland is on the part-time faculty in the Communication Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles. She is also a contributing writer to Ms. Magazine.