Luz Santana is the codirector of the Right Question Institute and the coauthor of Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions (2011).

One of the founders of the Right Question Institute, Santana is now a nationally recognized educational innovator, facilitator, and keynote speaker in English and Spanish who has designed a wide range of participatory learning curricula in many fields, including parent involvement, adult education, social services, health care, immigrant advocacy, neighborhood organizing, and voter engagement. Her work has been featured in the Boston Globe, international press in Spanish, and on National Public Radio.

Dan Rothstein is the codirector of the Right Question Institute and coauthor of Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions (2011). He is a former National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow and earned a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education before becoming the director of neighborhood planning for the City of Lawrence, MA. He was one of the founders of the Right Question Institute (formerly known as the "Right Question Project") and has collaborated with Luz Santana and other staff at the Right Question Institute to create curricula, teaching materials, articles, and books that are widely used to support adoption of the Right Question Strategy. His work has been featured on NPR and other media outlets, and he is a frequent presenter and keynote speaker at national conferences and symposia.

Agnes S. Bain is a lifelong resident of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and began work with Luz Santana and Dan Rothstein when she was a parent of children in the Lawrence public schools system.

Bain is one of the founders (and a past president and current board member) of the Right Question Institute. She has helped develop the institute's original concept of microdemocracy and has contributed to innovative teaching materials and resources for promoting greater citizen participation on all levels of a democratic society. Her kitchen table has a special place in Right Question Institute history as the location where some of its best ideas and curricula were first developed.

Bain has a PhD from Boston University and is a professor of government at Suffolk University where she has taught courses on community advocacy and topics in democracy.