Dana is a founding member of Western New York Students First, a grassroots organization focusing on giving students and families an organized and active voice in their children’s education, recentering students' needs as the primary focus for school districts.

Dana’s volunteer experience ranges from leading a mother of preschoolers group, starting a sustainable community garden in a Section 8 housing complex, coaching travel soccer, serving in multiple executive board roles at her children’s school PTAs. She serves as a legal coordinator and plaintiff in a parent lawsuit against Governor Hochul and associated parties against the mask mandate for children ages 2 and up (Hensley et al v Hochul et al). This case is currently awaiting litigation and challenges the efficacy of masking while illuminating the harms children have suffered from mask mandates.

Dana also served as legal coordinator and as a plaintiff in a parent lawsuit in 2021 against then Governor Cuomo, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker and local school districts to allow all children to attend school five days a week, in person, regardless of Covid transmission rates. This lawsuit was successful and schools reopened for her district five days a week for all students in May 2021.

Dana was awarded the 2018 Volunteer of the Year by the Williamsville Central School District. Dana lives outside Buffalo, NY, with her husband and four children. When she’s not working on creating restorative change, you will find her running carpools at the soccer fields and track, and surfing beginner waves.

Follow her on Twitter @DanaMarie262

Natalya Murakhver has long been a tireless advocate for children’s health and well-being. In 2018 she produced the NYU Exposome and Family Health panel and partnered with the New York City Healthy School Food Alliance to improve school food for New York City's public school children. In 2020, she helped organize #KeepNYCSchoolsOpen, and brought a lawsuit against NYC to reopen public schools in person with teachers in classrooms.

In 2021, she founded the #MaskLikeAKid campaign to raise awareness to the prolonged restrictions placed on children in the name of safety. In January 2022 she worked with an international team of scientists and pediatric, infectious disease, emergency, and ICU doctors to launch the Urgency of Normal Toolkit to raise awareness of the effects of Covid19 mitigations on children, and create a path to restoring normalcy. She holds a Masters in Food Studies from NYU.

Follow her on Twitter @AppletoZucchini