Dr. Sandra Briggs was born in Las Vegas and grew up in Los Angeles. She joined the Army when she was 17 and spent the entire year she was 18 in South Korea. Dr. Briggs taught aviation maintenance to military personnel and worked for McDonnell Douglas Astronautics. She studied Applied Numerical Analysis and thought she was headed toward engineering. She then discovered she enjoyed teaching more! For the last 3 years, she was the Math Department Chair at Mitchell High School and responsible for turning the math department around. She is currently an Instructional Coach at Mitchell High School.

Dr. Kerry McKee was born in Ft. Collins, CO and grew up in El Paso, TX. Her background is in math education. After receiving her PhD, she took a different direction and opened an inclusive preschool for children with Down syndrome and similar developmental differences. While it was very rewarding, she and her husband made the decision to move to Colorado Springs to put their daughter, Eloise, in a more progressive school system. When they moved, Dr. McKee went back to the classroom and is currently the Math Department Chair at Mitchell High School. In her free time, she became one of the coaches for the Mitchell Unified Sports teams, and she also helps coach her daughter’s Special Olympics team.