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Dayna Martin
Dayna Martin is a passionate Radical Unschooling Advocate who promotes peace through encouraging kindness and acceptance. Dayna is the proud mother of Devin 10, Dakota 7, Ivy 4 & Orion 1. She has also been happily married to Joe for 14 years. The Martin family lives in the White Mountains of NH.

Dayna is a confident yet peaceful public speaker and writer. She and Joe became “Unschooling Celebrities” when they appeared as the featured guests on the Dr. Phil Show in 2007. Her family also appeared on Fox News Live in Sept. 2008 promoting Unschooling along with John Taylor Gatto. Dayna also creating a YouTube video series which has been a unique avenue of advocacy viewed by thousands.

Dayna receives emails daily from people all over the World interested in learning more about Radical Unschooling. Dayna has been a La Leche League Leader for 8 years and is also a Natural Birth Educator, Attachment Parenting Mentor and Doula. She founded The Babywearing Project featured in Mothering Magazine. She also started the first of it’s kind Non-profit organization, Unschooling United.

Dayna’s website is www.UnschoolingAmerica.com and she can also be found at her Yahoo Group www.groups.yahoo.com/group/radicalunschoolingwithLoA/ . Dayna’s family blog is www.TheSparklingMartins.blogspot.com and their family business is www.WillowToys.com

Valerie Bendt
Valerie and her husband, Bruce, have homeschooled their six children all of their school lives. Drawing from more than 25 years of homeschooling experience, Valerie offers wisdom and encouragement in her books: Unit Studies Made Easy, Creating Books with Children, Reading Made Easy, The Frances Study Guide, Successful Puppet Making, Easy-to-Make Bible Story Puppets, and Making the Most of the Preschool Years. The Bendt’s five oldest children have graduated from homeschooling. Valerie and Bruce continue to homeschool their youngest son. Valerie enjoys speaking at homeschool conferences and meeting parents across the continent. The family resides in Tampa, Florida. Visit Valerie’s website at www.ValerieBendt.com or email her at ValerieBendt@verizon.net.

Linda Dobson
Linda Dobson and family began their homeschooling journey in 1985. They were having so much fun together that she wanted to share news of this educational approach with as many other families as possible. Linda’s articles have appeared in dozens of magazines, including Good Housekeeping, but her favorite stint was as Home Education Magazine news reporter and analyst for almost a decade. She still regularly contributes a commentary column, “Notes from the Road Less Traveled,” and is acting columns editor. She has authored eight books, and contributed essays and forewords to many more. Life isn’t all work, fortunately! She moved to be close to Florida’s Gulf coast and is learning everything from where to get the best pizza to which of the wonderful plants and flowers are native. She’s a fanatical – if lousy – golfer, an avid Beatles fan, and grandmother of three beautiful girls, including a set of twins.

Kathleen Desmarais
Seven years ago, Kathleen Desmarais began making a difference in home education by starting Classical Home Education, a homeschool provider company. Seeing a great need for quality, secular materials in the homeschool arena, Kathleen redirected her energies to publishing science and history courses without agendas. She began Pandia Press in 2004 with the creation of R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey and History Odyssey. As a homeschool publisher, writer, and speaker, Kathleen strives to make a classical education mainstream and accessible to everyone who wants a well-balanced, rigorous education.
In an attempt to completely overwhelm herself and justify an out-of-control coffee and chocolate habit, Kathleen also homeschools her four children who span from toddler to high school. She is the co-owner of three other businesses and corporations and is the director of a private umbrella school in Florida. Moreover, Kathleen’s whole family is busy building their dream house completely by themselves with sustainable materials. Visit Pandia Press’s web site and blog for information about Kathleen’s products. She also likes to show off her crazy, wonderful family on her home building blog.

Laura Serbin
Laura is the mother of three always unschooled children aged 9, 7, and 4.  She is a former La Leche League leader, a co-coordinator of her local home school support group, and runs an Unschooling United chapter in SW Florida. On top of all of that, she is also a member of the board of directors for the Secular Home Educators Asociation of Florida.

Laura will be hosting a round table talk about radical unschooling.