Guy graduated with a B.A. from Utah State University in 2007 with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Ethnobotany.  In 2006 he served as a consultant to the Medicinal Plants of Peru Project with the UC Berkeley Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (MHIRT) Program.  He has worked assistant in an Integrated Pest Management lab and at the USU greenhouse, a field botanist for the Forest Service and the U.S. Geologic Survey on fire revegetation studies, and spent 2 1/2 years working at Red Butte Garden and Arboretum in Salt Lake City. He has strong interests in agroecology, conservation and restoration biology and has plans to pursue a master's degree in the near future.

Charlotte received a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Linfield College in 2010.  Since graduating she has worked for the Oregon Department of Transportation's Wetlands Program on mitigation and restoration of wetland habitats, and with the Missouri Botanical Garden's Sacred Seeds Program constructing a medicinal plant garden in northern Peru.  She hopes to pursue a graduate education and career in the field of conservation biology, focusing on the preservation and restoration of threatened habitats, species, and resources in the Pacific Northwest.