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Kanchan Balse is a painter in Washington D.C. os. She is also the mother of a young child and has served as a visual Arts teacher in a variety of settings, including charter schools, in New York and DC and at the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center. She loves to encourage creative expression in the classroom.

Kluster is a newly launched web-based collaboration and decision-making platform. The brainchild of Ben Kaufman -- founder of Mophie, an iPod accessory company relying heavily on its customer base in the design and development process -- Kluster seeks to foster the same principals that made mophie so popular by engaging the general public to conceive, design, brand, and launch new products.

Kristopher Grunert is a professional Photographer and lives in Vancouver, Canada with his wife Chelsea. His work is "provoked by a curiosity to explore, observe and capture urban and rural spaces that appear isolated and empty despite traces of human presence." The commercial side of Grunert's business is creating architectural-industrial and landscape based photographs for editorials, corporate communications, and advertising. He has an impressive client list that includes Chanel, Southeby's, Mercer International, and many design, marketing, and architecture firms. Grunert strives to blur the lines between fine art and commercial photography.