Stacy Doran is a native of Los Angeles and a set dresser. She's been searching for cool period furniture to furnish 826LA East in all the places set dressers look, as well as moving around the furniture that's already there. Other than that, she's not exactly sure what she could have done to receive this honor. In her opinion, when it comes to tutoring she gains much more than she gives, has as much to learn as she does to teach, and should simply feel grateful that the time she used to waste staring out the window and daydreaming is now happily occupied with her new hobby: diagramming sentences.

Standing five-foot-six-and-three-quarters, Robert Hornak finally found people he can tower over, even if they're only ten. On his first day at 826LA West in Venice, he was humbled by a gut-punch reintroduction to fourth-grade fractions. But all was well when he discovered that he was also, in fact, sharing space with the purest, funnest, undilutedest imaginations ever. Since arriving, he has enjoyed literary excursions alongside pandas and ninjas and the intrepid super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Hornak's time at 826LA was confined to only the three months of the ill-famed Writers' Strike, but he has a funny feeling he'll be back, if only to find out whether Sherlock ever made it back to the present.

Wendy West liked the Writers' Strike for several reasons: she met a cute boy (a relationship that lasted as long as the strike), she got caught up on her sleep (a feat which also lasted as long as the strike), and she suddenly had picket-free afternoons to volunteer at 826LA (a habit that endures post-strike and beyond). This West prefers 826LA East (geography is destiny in LA), and when not doing multiplicación y división en español, Wendy enjoys Rudolph M. Schindler houses, the name Rudolph, parentheticals (doncha know), and the idea of (but not the practice of) long walks by the beach.

Tara Nicole Weyr grew up in New York City and is constantly plotting her return. She normally works very long days as an Assistant Director and is grateful that the Writers' Strike allowed her to volunteer twice a week at 826LA, which she finds to be a fabulously satisfying way to spend an afternoon.