Dennis Littky is director and cofounder of the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center (“The Met”), in Providence, Rhode Island, and codirector and cofounder of The Big Picture Company, a non-profit education reform organization that creates and supports small, personalized, public high schools that work in tandem with their communities.

Samantha Grabelle is Dennis Littky's assistant at The Big Picture Company and The Met. She earned a B.A. with honors in multicultural education from Brown University and a master's degree in social work with a concentration in community organizing from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work, where she was named the Connecticut National Association of Social Workers' Social Work Student of the Year.