About the Author

Sose Gjelaj was born in Montenegro. She relocated to the United States with her family in 1969 and has lived in America since then. Sose is an artist, an author, a published poet, a philanthropist and a philosopher. She has academic background in Arts and is the owner of "Sose Art Gallery" located in Bennington, VT. Sose's paintings have been exhibited on solo and group shows in Europe and New England. She is the first artist of Albanian heritage to have her own show in New York City. In 2012, Sose founded the "Source of Visibility," a not-for- profit humanitarian and environmental organization based in Bennington, VT. Elitsa Teneva was born in Bulgaria. She moved to the United States when she was 18 to pursue an academic career in the fields of psychology and school psychology. Elitsa graduated with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Child Development from Southern Vermont College in Bennington, VT, and M.Ed. with a concentration in School Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA. She is on the Board of Directors of the not-for-profit organization founded by Sose Gjelaj, the "Source of Visibility."