In law school, Jennifer clerked with the Office of the United States Trade Representative's Environment & Natural Resources Division, where she researched the environmental and social impacts of international trade, particularly its impacts on natural resources in the developing world. She traveled to Madagascar the summer after her first year to work on a USAID project dedicated to creating job opportunities in ecotourism for local communities adjacent to protected areas. In addition, she researched and analyzed Madagascar's gemstone mining industry for her law review note while serving as a member of the Vermont Law Review.

Prior to her legal practice, Jennifer was a business development coordinator for a top international development firm, Chemonics International, where she managed the marketing and proposal development process for USAID and World Bank environmental and local governance projects in a variety of developing countries. She also interned for the Committee on Natural Resources and Agriculture at the Massachusetts State House, where she authored a report on various regulatory approaches to wetlands preservation nationwide.

Jennifer has volunteered over the past year with Susan Kingsley and Christina Miller to launch Ethical Metalsmiths. Her previous volunteer experience includes leading trips for the Sierra Club's Inner City Outings program and teaching environmental policy and ecology to high school students at the Birney School in Washington, D.C.'s Anacostia neighborhood, a historically underprivileged community.

Susan Kingsley is an accomplished artist and metalsmith with an interest in making objects and installations that investigate how social and cultural values are communicated by "things."

Her work has been exhibited and published internationally and is in the collections of the Oakland Museum (Oakland, CA) and the Racine Art Museum (Racine, WI), as well as a number of private and corporate collections. She received a prestigious NEA/Western States Arts Federation fellowship for her work in 1994.

In addition to her studio work, Susan has written articles on art, craft, feminist issues and the paradox of gold, and is the author of the technical book, Hydraulic Die Forming for Jewelers and Metalsmiths. She has taught numerous workshops and has lectured throughout the U.S. and Canada and is a part-time instructor at Monterey Peninsula College.

Susan has been working in the field of metalsmithing and has been an active member of the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) for more than 25 years. She has served the organization in a number of capacities, including a lead role in a conference organizing committee, chair of the Metalsmith Editorial Advisory Committee and speaker and workshop presenter at conferences.

Her article, The Price of Gold, published in Metalsmith magazine (Summer 2004), brought mining issues to the attention of SNAG members and the magazine's broader circulation readership. Together with Christina Miller, Susan organized the panel presentation for the 2005 SNAG conference, drafted and proposed a Resolution in Support of Responsible Mining which was adopted in 2006,  and served on SNAG's Committee on Responsible Mining. She also collaborated with Christina on a presentation in July, 2006 at the Association of Contemporary Jewellery conference, "Carry the Can", in London, England.

Susan has served as a director on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including eight years with the Pacific Repertory Theater (Carmel, CA) and six years with Arts Habitat (Monterey, CA), where she has served as treasurer and chair of the Board Development Committee. Arts Habitat's mission is to create an artists' community with low cost housing and studio space at the former military base at Ft. Ord.

Susan did her undergraduate work at the College of Wooster (Wooster, OH) and earned an MFA in visual arts from Vermont College (Montpelier, VT).

Christina Tatiana Miller is the Assistant Professor of Jewelry and Metalsmithing at Millersville University in Millersville, PA. She received a BFA from Millersville University and received her MFA from East Carolina University (Greenville, NC) after completing her thesis, Ethical Prospects: A Critical Representation of the Co-Dependent Relationship Between Metalsmithing and Metal Mining. She also studied at Le Arti Orafe Jewelry School in Florence, Italy. Christina is a former Artist-in-Residence at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. She teaches workshops and exhibits her work internationally. Her work has been published in 1000 Rings, The Art of Enameling, The Fine Art of Enameling, and Contemporary Print in Enamel. She has work in public and private collections.

Christina also has experience in grass roots nonprofit and community organizing gained through an internship with Green Corps (Field School for Environmental Organizing), and through two years of experience at the Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation in Boston, where she served initially as a volunteer, and then worked as the open space community organizer. In addition, Christina helped to build Friends of Park groups in a dense, multi-cultural Boston neighborhood, and served as an advocate for open space improvement, creation and preservation at the city and state levels. Her efforts helped the organization secure annual funding in the amount of $90,000 for the open space work.

Together with Susan, Christina organized the panel presentation for SNAG 2005 annual conference, drafted and proposed a Resolution on Responsible Mining that was adopted by the SNAG membership in 2006. They also collaborated on a presentation in July, 2006 at the Association of Contemporary Jewellery conference, “Carry the Can,” in London, England.