Marie is a certified nurse-midwife and nurse practitioner at Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care in Washington, DC. Marie attended Bronx High School of Science and the University of Michigan, and received a BS in nursing from Boston University and an MS in nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. She worked as a nurse at Boston City and Beth Israel hospitals in Boston, and Alta Bates, Kaiser, and Merritt hospitals in the San Francisco Bay area. She has been a nurse-midwife at the North Shore Birth Center and Harvard Community Health Plan in the Boston area, and Group Health Association, Lakner and Gerber, Annapolis Ob-Gyn, and at the Pregnancy Aid Center in the Washington, DC, area. She also has been a clinical instructor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Marie and Steve were married in 1980; the honeymoon was spent bicycling from Boston to Seattle. Send email to Marie at mariefetter@gmail.com.

Emily is a first-year student at  Harvard Law School. She graduated summa cum laude in May 2008 with a BA in government and politics from the University of Maryland, earning the designation of Dean's Academic Scholar and the University Honors Citation. She was a recipient of the Banneker/Key scholarship and a member of 2008 National Champion  Mock Trial team. She spent summer 2007 at Oxford University, and spring 2006 at the American University of Rome. She graduated in June 2004 from the science and technology program at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, where she was a member of the lacrosse team and the Latin honor society. Send email to Emily at emfetter@gmail.com.

Max is a sophomore at St. Mary's College of Maryland, where he is majoring in English. He graduated in June 2007 from the science and technology program at Eleanor Roosevelt High School, where he played on the varsity lacrosse team. In his spare time, he reviews rock music and plays guitar.  Before his voice changed, Max was for four years a member of the Maryland Boy Choir (winner of the 1999 Grammy for best choral performance), and performed with Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer on Changing Channels (nominated for a Grammy) and All Wound Up; with DinoRock in the role of "Nelson" on Grammy-nominated Dreamosausus, and with Sue Trainor on Under Tables Out Back Doors. Send email to Max at mjfetter@smcm.edu.