MARCEL DESAULNIERS is the former co-owner, cofounder, and executive chef of the famous Trellis Restaurant in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. His books include the James Beard Award-winning Death by Chocolate, the IACP Award-winning Desserts to Die For, Death by Chocolate Cakes, Death by Chocolate Cookies, and Celebrate with Chocolate. In 2012, Desaulniers and his wife, Connie, opened MAD about Chocolate, a chocolate cafe in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Michael Grand obtained his PhD in Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a Professor in the Graduate Training Program in Child Clinical Psychology at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario. He co-directed the National Adoption Study of Canada, and has published on such diverse topics as search and reunion, family and personal identity, adoption demographics, and paths to open facilitation. He received the David Kirk award for outstanding contributions to research in adoption and has been a board member of the Adoption Councils of Ontario and Canada. As a founding member of the coordinating committee of the Coalition for Open Adoption Records, he works for… access for identifying information for all. Dr Grand has a private practice serving the adoption constellation.