Carol Menaker is a writer living in the Sierra Foothills in Northern California, where she retired after a career writing and managing communications for universities and nonprofits. She was raised in a Jewish family in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She holds a BA in theatre arts/acting from Pennsylvania State University and an MS in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Her book is coming out April 11. The Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done: One Juror’s Reckoning with Racial Injustice is Carol Menaker’s intimate and eye-opening account of her twenty-one-day jury sequestration in the 1976 murder trial of a young Black revolutionary charged with the murders of two white Philadelphia prison wardens. More than forty years after Menaker voted to convict Frederick Burton of murder, she tells a devastating story of uncovering how her naiveté and white privilege may have led her to convict a man whose shoes she never could have walked in. Compiled from historical research and Menaker’s recollections of growing up and coming of age in a predominantly white world, this memoir spells out the fundamental flaws in our criminal justice system and proclaims one juror’s moral imperative to help set things right—nearly a half-century later. carolmenaker.com
Susan is a semi-retired graphic designer with a life-long love of art, painting, literature, and fiction—reading and writing. 
Robb Lightfoot began his writing career in 1983 as a reporter for The Bakersfield Californian, writing daily breaking news and numerous feature articles. In 1986 he began work as the PR Assistant at the Kern County Museum, writing news releases and writing/producing their newsletter. In 1988, he completed a master’s degree in communications, and has since taught at Modesto JC and later Shasta College. He placed as a top-ten finalist in the national Writer’s Digest Screenwriting Competition of 1991 with his entry, “One Little Indian.”
