Cat Gina Cole (Southern Oregon) was initiated into the magical system of her mother and grandmother at the age of thirteen. She is a hedgewitch, practitioner of Hermetic magic, psychic, teacher, and walker of many worlds. She ran Rowan Tree Pagan Ministries for five years. Cat currently serves as Priestess and co-leader, with Phaedra Bonewits, of the Coven of the Rising Phoenix.

Phaedra Bonewits has been a practicing psychic, witch, ritualist, and ceremonial magician for thirty years and is an early co-conspirator and a former national officer of CUUPS (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans).