Rhonda L. Carlson, BSW, (CSW), a.k.a Menisiquah, co-editor and contributing author, is a certified parent-child trainer. She was certified by the National Board for the North American Society for Parent Training and Development. Ms. Carlson’s professional background includes fifteen years of social work. Ms. Carlson also holds a license as a massage therapist as well as certification as a clinical hypnotherapist and A-CAM-Aromatherapy in complimentary medicine. She is currently employed with Shawano County Health & Human Services. She is working in Keshena on the Menominee Reservation, where most of these recipes and short stories came from.