Lesley is originally from Evanston, IL and is a graduate of the University of Oregon. Her professional career began in non-profit management and she was recognized as the Greater Chicago Food Depository's Employee of the Year in 2004. In 2007 Lesley and her husband Alex opened Roscoe Village Bikes which is one of the most well regarded bicycle shops in the city of Chicago. Lesley is very active in the local and independent business movement.

Anna has an MS in Information Architecture, Technical Communication and Information Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She specializes in Drupal based site architecture planning and implementation, front-end and theme development and digital production management. Interests include Local First, local search marketing, content management systems, information architecture, user experience design, knitting, baking and corgis.