Jody Williams was born October 9, 1950, in Putney, Vermont. She was a co-coordinator of the Nicaragua-Honduras Education Project and the former deputy director of Medical Aid for El Salvador. In 1992 she coordinated the launch of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. She and the campaign were named co-recipients of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1997.

Grace Potter was born on June 20, 1983, in Waitsfield, Vermont. Grace learned to play piano by her mother and later became the lead singer of the Nocturnals while attending St. Lawrence University.