Lori Lake is communication and education specialist at the Children's Institute, University of Cape Town. She has an Honours degree in anthropology and has spent the past 16 years developing education support material for government and civil society, with a particular focus on health, safety, child protection, children's rights and early childhood development. She is currently completing her Masters in Higher Education.

Lucy Jamieson is a senior researcher at the Children's Institute, University of Cape Town. She has a BA (Hons) in Politics and has an MA in Democratic Governance. She has 18 years of experience in political campaign management, communications co-ordination and public consultation. Her areas of expertise are child rights, participatory democracy; governance; law reform & policy development and child protection.