Keena McAvoy, co-founder of DMV Unplugged, is a wife and mother of three adult-ish children, a former school physical therapist and teacher who lives in Fairfax County, Viriginia. She is a certified digital wellness educator, a Phone Free Schools Movement Ambassador and is a passionate advocate for childhoods based in play and real life engagement instead of technology. Keena would like to empower her community to take control back from tech companies whose financial incentives drive them to capture maximum attention and engagement and distract us from what makes us most human and what we require to truly thrive. She thinks that technology policy and usage in our schools should reflect the fundamental needs of the learning brain, at all grade levels. Spending time with her family is what Keena cherishes most and she also pursues fitness, reading, music and writing as hobbies.

Liza Schalch, co-founder of DMV Unplugged, is a former high school teacher, a Phone-Free Schools Movement Ambassador, the mother of three preschool-age boys and lives in Arlington County, Virginia. She taught English since 2012 and decided to shift to advocacy work after seeing, year after year, the ever-worsening impact of smartphone overuse on her students' wellbeing and cognition. At the same time, she noticed Ed Tech becoming increasingly dominant in classrooms which meant, all too often, that students were succumbing to distraction and spending much of class roaming the internet. It's hard to change norms -- especially when powerful industries are tapping into our vulnerabilities, bankrolling friendly studies of their products, and lobbying successfully against meaningful regulation. Liza wants to help parents, children, and schools see that the current norms are worth breaking. She wants to restore childhood and to help kids (including her own) avoid the tech-induced troubles her beloved students experienced. Outside of her advocacy work, Liza enjoys running, hiking, and painting.