Bryson Taylor Publishing

Deb Landry is the author of the best selling children’s book, Sticks Stones and Stumped, Yankee Go Home, and the co author of The Comfort Zone with Meline Kevorkian Ed.D., and Robin D’Antona, Ed.D. She is a parenting coach specializing in social awareness behaviors and character education and has authored several interactive children’s mentoring plays on character education, social awareness, and bullying prevention. She was also part of the team that authored the Maine State Best Practices in Bullying and Harassment Prevention Manual and lobbied for the new legislation in the State of Maine.

Deb is the co-founder, President/CEO and former Executive Director of Crossroads Youth Center, a non profit performing art based afterschool program and is a facilitator for Real Life ─ Real Talk™. Her CARE For Students™ Program, due out in late 2009, is a teachers guide to developing character education through variety of classroom curriculums.
A mother of four and grandmother of three, Deb spent 21 years in healthcare administration and 11 years as an afterschool director. She passionately shares her expertise through lectures, workshops, books, author visits, and her parent coaching practice. With recognition and several awards for her work , Deb has been interviewed and featured on NBC, CBS, national radio, and several publications including USA Weekend Magazine, Raising Maine Magazine, Seventeen Magazine , Women’s Day Magazine, and Child Magazine.

Robin D’Antona, Ed.D

Robin D’Antona is an educational consultant for The Cape Associates. She is co-author of the upcoming book 101 Things Everyone Should Know about Bullying. She produced a video The Point After which won an award for Women in Cable Television from Lifetime Television.

She is a Certified National Olweus Bullying Prevention Trainer and works with school districts of bullying prevention. She frequently presents regularly to teachers, parents, on the importance of bullying prevention as well as other issues related to school safety. As a former executive director of afterschool programs she works with management and staff on a variety of topics particular to school age child care. Robin is a founding Board Member of the International Bullying Prevention Association and currently is serving as President of the Board of Directors.

Robin has dedicated her career to training and research to raise awareness and further the information base of the negative effects of bullying. She firmly believes that every child has the fundamental right to feel welcome and safe in school and in afterschool – and to be free from bullying.

Robin may be contacted through her website at: www.StopbullyingMA.org

Meline Kevorkian

Meline Kevorkian, Ed.D. as seen on the TODAY Show; is the author of Preventing Bullying: Helping Kids Form Positive Relationships and Six Secrets for Parents to Help Their Kids Achieve in School.

Currently she is the Executive Director of Academic Review at Nova Southeastern University. She serves as a Board Member of the International Bullying Prevention Association, and as a columnist for The Miami Herald (Broward).

Meline presents regularly on best practices in bullying prevention, cyber bullying, as well as numerous topics facing educators, parents and students in today's schools. Her experience includes teaching and administrative positions in both public and private schools from preschool through the university level.

Her research focuses on best practices in bullying prevention, school safety and academic achievement. She has been featured on NBC, WSVN, Mom Talk Radio, WLRN Public Television, BlueSuitMom.com, and the National PTA.

Christina St. Cyr

Christina St. Cyr was born and raised in New England. Inspired by the sights, sounds and colors of Coastal Maine where she lives with her husband and two daughters, Christina lends her artistic abilities to a variety of projects including graphic design, painting and culinary arts. Additionally, she is the Creative Services Manager for a network of websites and the founder/president of Pure Graphics Designs and Illustrations. Christina enjoys time with her family, balancing work with a passion for fitness and time with friends. If you are ever on the coast of Maine, you may catch her kayaking or digging for clams along the beaches that inspire so much of her work.