Beto O'Rourke is a fourth generation El Pasoan and businessman. In May 2011 he completed his second term on the El Paso City Council. In addition to continuing his efforts to reform U.S. drug policy, he continues to run Stanton Street Technology Group, the web-development company that he co-founded. He lives with his wife and children in El Paso’s Sunset Heights neighborhood, just a few blocks from the international border. Beto is the co-author (along with Susie Byrd) of Dealing Death and Drugs: The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico, a rational case for ending the prohibition on marijuana in the U.S.
Keith D. Shepherd is a designer/illustrator and educator originally out of St.Louis, Mo. He has been a resident of Kansas City Mo. for the past 28 years. His paintings are in private collections and galleries across the country.