Professor Mungai holds a Ph.D. in Education from Michigan State University. She is the author of Growing Up in Kenya: Rural Schooling and Girls (Peter Lang Publishers, 2002). Esther Kogan is an Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Early Childhood Graduate Program at Adelphi University. Professor Kogan holds an Ed.D. in Special Education with a specialization in the Education of Gifted and Talented Children from Columbia University. She is the author of Gifted Bilingual Students: A Paradox? (Peter Lang Publishers, 2001).