Beverly Mason was born on October 30th, 1968 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mason grew up in West Las Vegas and was part of the school integration movement in the 1970s. She was a industrial hygienest at the Nevada Test Site and worked in the School Community Partnership Office as a program manager.

John Brooks was born November 12, 1937 in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a child Brooks sold Review-Journal newspapers. He graduated from Las Vegas High School. Brooks began working in the gaming industry in Las Vegas in 1958.

Lorne Seidman was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1969 because he was hired to teach business law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas(UNLV). He was also the discipline officer, assistant general counsel, and deputy attorney general of UNLV.

Byron Underhill was born February 02, 1919 and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1927. Underhill and his father owned and operated the first Coca Cola Bottling Company in Clark County, Nevada. Underhill had three children, born between 1948 and 1955.

Mahlon Brown was born in 1940. He was a policeman in Washington, D.C., during the 1960s, an attorney in Las Vegas, Nevada along with Jack Anderson in the Las Vegas Welfare Rights Movement, a Justice of the Peace, and a Nevada, United States Attorney General under President Jimmy Carter.

Hanford Searl was born March 02, 1947 in Buffalo, New York. He attended New Mexico Highlands University at Las Vegas, New Mexico and Brigham Young University in Utah. Searl worked as a writer at the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Billboard Magazine.

Scott Swank grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. He attended Kansas State University. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 2005 when his wife Heidi Swank was hired at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.