Craig Cameron (General Training, Problem Solving) - grew up dreaming of being a cowboy. Craig went to high school in Houston, TX, where he excelled in football and track, but Craig was always most at home 100 miles West at the 1,700 acre family cattle ranch. While still in high school, with no formal training, Craig entered open rodeos in Texas where he competed in all the rough stock events.

After high school Craig moved to a family ranch where he learned the ranching business from the famous Texas Ranger family, the Hamers. Craig loved traditional ranching methods always using horses in the operation to work, move, and handle the cattle.

While living on the ranch, Craig pursued his rodeo career, earned his PRCA card, and lived the rodeo life for almost two decades. During this period Craig specialized in the bull riding and traveled all over the United States, Canada, and Mexico, competing in the biggest rodeos in the world including Houston, Fort Worth, Cheyenne, Calgary, and many more.

Craig grew up watching the rough and tumble methods of horse breaking and training in the 1950's and 60's and Craig never did believe or cotton to the unnecessary rough treatment these horses received. At the ranch Craig took on problem horses from local ranchers and used a slower more natural approach that seemed to work. Clients would get their horses back and be puzzled by the incredible transition that had taken place in such a short time. People wanted to come watch the magic at work. Craig said, "When I started making them pay, they really started listening."

Craig then heard about a man named Ray Hunt who advocated working with the horse and not against him. Craig followed in Ray Hunt's trail and became one of the "original clinicians," filming his first video in 1985. Now Craig performs his magic to horse enthusiasts all over the world where he travels almost 90,000 miles and 44 weeks a year. Craig, called the Public Defender of the horse, also hosts two silver "Telly" TV shows, "Ride Smart" and "The Extreme Cowboy Race" on RFDTV, which have brought him even more notoriety.

Craig Cameron keeps the cowboy way alive and well each day. Although he is most noted for his innovative horsemanship skills and exciting teaching techniques, he is also an incredible woodsman and hunter. Craig has received many awards, American Cowboy Culture Award for the Working Cowboy, Western Equestrian Award, and was recently honored by being adopted by the Crow Indian Nation and given the name "Captures Many Horses" for his work with the Crow Indians in Montana. If you know Craig Cameron, you know his sense of humor and his trademark laugh that he is well known for at all his clinics, at the ranch and on the road. But the road in many ways seems to still be home to Craig Cameron. After years of rodeo and decades of horsemanship clinics on the road, Craig is still going strong at an age where most men are riding the rocking chair. Craig still starts hundreds of colts and teaches hundreds of classes each year coast to coast and nation to nation. Craig Cameron may have grown up dreaming of being a cowboy but with his induction into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in 2007, people will now always say, "He did not just dream it, he lived it."  

Kirsten K. Dubbs - holds a Master’s degree in Education from Penn State University and is employed by Penn State Extension as a 4-H and Youth Development Educator. She manages a county 4-H Program and is an active member of Penn State’s Youth Equine Program Team. She enjoys schooling, trail riding and introducing children to equestrian activities.

Karl Dymond - is with the Pennsylvania State Conservation Commission (SCC). Its primary mission is to ensure the wise use of Pennsylvania's natural resources and to protect and restore the natural environment through the conservation of its soil, water and related resources. The commission provides support and oversight to the state's 66 county conservation districts for the implementation of conservation programs in an efficient and responsible manner.

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Janet Geyer  (Equine Nutrition) - Janet has a strong background in biological sciences, including food analysis and animal nutrition. In addition to working in the food industry, she has worked for companies that provide instruments that analyze feed and forage for everything from protein to color to microbes. Janet, who has ridden and trained horses for many years, owns Celebration Farm in Frederick, MD, where she offers boarding and raises award-winning sport horses. In 2006, Janet started Daily Dose Equine LLC, a feed company that offers only human-grade and organic products. She believes that approaching nutrition from a practical and balanced-nutrition standpoint, helps animal owners understand their purchases, saves money and helps animals feel their best.

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Cathy Hill - is a lifelong rider with a large repertoire of equestrian interests and skills with a host of awards for barrel-racing and in the show ring. Cathy is a licensed instructor and trains riders of all ages, interests and ability levels. Her holistic approach to riding and training is based on her deep intuitive understanding of the multi-faceted relationship between the mind and body of both horse and rider and her unique ability to communicate that understanding to her students.

Born on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Cathy moved to California at the age of 6 where her Sunday pony ride adventure became the highlight of her week. By the time she was 10, she had worked her way into a job at the pony ride farm, grooming, mucking, tacking up, whatever was needed. Before long, she was the girl with the whip in the middle of the ring ensuring that the ten ponies and their inexperienced charges trotted safely and methodically around in a circle for the allotted time. When she wasn't orchestrating the pony rides, Cathy was gaining mileage as the default catch rider, the working student who played with the new ponies as they arrived, both on the ground and on their backs, till they were schooled enough to enter the program. Soon she was also working with horses brought in for sale, training and showing them in Western Pleasure and Equitation. She even learned to drive the sulkies back on her aunt’s harness racing track during summertime visits to Cape Cod. The hours upon hours of focused time spent working with horses in a myriad of capacities allowed Cathy to develop a visceral understanding how horses think, how they move, how they communicate among themselves and with humans, and it is this unique perspective that has brought her such success as a rider and trainer.

After a stint on the management side in the business world, Cathy returned to the field she loved most. Back on Cape Cod in the 1980s, married, with two small boys, Cathy started with a weekend pony ride business. As ponies and then horses began to fill her small backyard farm, she started giving riding lessons. Always the showman at heart, she would take her horses and kid-filled pony cart in local parades. At the same time Cathy began seriously competing in NBHA events, qualifying for Worlds annually from 1999 to 2008 and making the finals in 1999, 2002 and 2008. 

As her lesson program continued to expand, she moved her operation to her current location on 13 picturesque acres in West Barnstable, MA where she has a 2-level 22-horse barn, an indoor arena, fenced rings and paddocks, a round pen for training, and an outside course with permanent obstacles. Here she runs a full service equestrian facility with group and private lessons for kids and adults ranging from beginner to advanced in disciplines ranging from dressage to western pleasure. It is also home to the Barnstable Barn Burners, Cathy’s pride and joy precision drill team that performs across New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. 

A highly respected professional horse trainer, Cathy thrives on challenges, working with, and repairing, “problem” horses that others have long since given up on. The impressive results of these projects can be seen around her farm, CJs Ranch, and at countless private barns up and down the East coast, living proof of Cathy’s horsemanship, expert training skills and instinctive rapport with these complex animals. Cathy also presents clinics at CJ’s Ranch in Equine Desensitization Strategies, Instructor Training, Basic Ground Work, and Under Saddle Suppling and Collection Exercises in a group setting.    

Anita Howe (Gaited Horses) -  "Real gait comes from balance, posture and impulsion of a horse, never from what’s nailed on his feet." Anita made a commitment many years ago to never train gaited horses in anything heavier than keg shoes. This philosophy opened a door for this Missouri trainer by taking away the usual crutches others fall back on. Anita has used a foundation of training based on the understanding that movement affected through mechanical aids does not last and may actually be detrimental to the horse, while classical and natural horsemanship allows a horse to brilliantly improve each and every year he's ridden. By applying the bio-mechanics of gait and a love of natural horsemanship to a multitude of gaited horses over the last 14 years, Anita has developed solutions for gaited breeds that consistently correct and improve balance, gait and athleticism.

As a trainer and clinician Anita has a growing reputation for producing horses that are soft, more consistent, happier and more correct in their movement, while teaching riders to better understand biomechanics of gait as the natural tools to help their horses release their inherent gaiting abilities.       

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Colleen Kelly (Rider Biomechanics ) - started her career in exercise physiology in injury and cardiac rehabilitation gymnasiums. Now, 25 years later, she is one of the world's most sought after keynote speakers, having been invited to speak for Official Equestrian Federations around the world at the Grand Prix (Olympic Level) Judge’s Conference. Her world lecture tour includes Official Equestrian Federations throughout the world, FEI Level Judge’s Clinics & world class conferences such as Horse World Expo, Equitana, Equinexpo, Sporthorse and Equine Extravaganza.

Colleen was elected spokeswoman for the WorkCover Authority of NSW and she has a keen interest in OH&S, seat & posture in the workplace and is the founder of the Kidsafety School Posture Program. Although Colleen is well known for judging at many State, National and Royal Championships, and for receiving a remarkable 100% in her Official Dressage Judge’s Exam, it's her ‘Irish Sense of Humor’ that keeps audiences around the world smiling. Colleen has also received 3 separate awards for her work with Riding for Disabled.