Ann-Marie Zoë Coore, a native Jamaican, has over twenty years of experience in international public health and international business. She has worked for organizations and youth programs such as the CDC Parent Matters Project, Office of Minority Health, and Integrated Social Solutions/AstraZeneca. Ann-Marie is the President and Founder of Coore Foundation, and its subsidiary Girls Right Of Way (GROW) www.girlsrightofway.org. She leads the Coore Foundation's annual "HIV, STD, and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Camps" in the Caribbean, the USA, South & Central America, and Africa. Ann-Marie also develops, implements, and monitors intervention programs for children in twenty-three countries around the world. These programs include GROW Literacy - reading centers; GROW Sole - providing new and lightly used shoes to those in need and GROW Rhythm - music schools for children in high crime and under-resourced communities. She is currently leading work with "GOD ROCKS", her publishing, production, and promotion company, and "I AM A QUINTESSENTIAL WOMAN", her company that supports women around the world to move mountains through women empowering women in an atmosphere of caring and mutual respect developing their essential self while starting, leading, and sustaining their essential work. Born and raised in Jamaica, Gabrielle Walker is a pending graduate of the HEART VTDI in the Associate's Degree Program in Animation. She has pursued the art field from a young age which has gradually evolved into an interest in the graphic arts and animation industry. Her largest inspirations come from Disney and Ghibli films. She's had a brief experience in the industry as an intern at ListenMi Studios and is striving to continue growing her skills and knowledge as an Illustrator and Animator. Gabrielle is the illustrator of four of the twenty-one children's books in the SCREE series.
