Barbara Zheutlin moved from Los Angeles to Great Barrington in 1995. She is the former executive director of Berkshire Grown; she helped create Share the Bounty to strengthen local farming and provide fresh food to food pantries. She coauthored The Kindergarten Lessons We Never Learned and contributed to Enduring Inequities, part of ECHOES, Early Childhood History, Organizing, Ethos, and Strategy Project, believing that the world would be a better place if we prioritized caring for human beings from birth. She is the coauthor of Creative Differences: Profiles of Hollywood Dissidents (South End Press 1979). She tutors ESL as part of Literacy Network, and volunteers for the Southern Berkshire Ambulance Service and The Triplex Cinema.