Nathan Chamberlain
Nathan Chamberlain is the youngest of three brothers from Wilmington, Ohio, where he was bitten early on by the wanderlust bug. After graduating from Ohio University with a BA in International Studies, Nathan enjoyed non-profit management and fundraising in Philadelphia. Despite the comfortable life, the insidious wanderlust infection from his early days as a Scout and family road-tripper took him randomly to Mongolia with the Peace Corps where he was a business adviser for an international NGO implementing micro-lending and other programs designed to help low-income families.

Leslie Chamberlain
Leslie Ann Shaffer Chamberlain grew up in the small town of North East, Pennsylvania on Lake Erie.  She’s always been able to tell where she is based on the location of the closest body of water.  She also is fine with cold weather as long as it is accompanied by heaps of snow.  In an odd twist of fate, she went with the Peace Corps to a freezing cold, landlocked country entirely too dry to have heaps of any precipitation and wasn’t close to bodies of water.  Nevertheless, she hasn’t lost herself yet.

Ashlee Christian
A small girl with big dreams from Chicago's north side, Ashlee Christian knew from a young age that she wanted to be an astronaut. After realizing that the pursuit of such a career would require math skills beyond addition and subtraction, she humbly hung up her space helmet and moved to Bowling Green, Ohio to pursue a degree in photography. Ashlee had also always been fascinated by other places and cultures, a fascination that manifested itself in the most extreme way possible when she moved to a felt tent in central Mongolia. After spending two years in the land of blue sky, Ashlee is now back in America resting her itchy feet and plotting her next adventure. She may or may not revisit the idea of going to space.

Andrew Cullen
Andrew Cullen grew up traveling to skateboard parks and punk rock shows throughout New England. He received a degree in journalism from Boston University, from which he took a semester off to study in Mongolia. After graduation, Peace Corps sent him to Bangladesh. When Peace Corps pulled out of the hot, tiny, crowded, country due to security concerns, he suggested that Peace Corps send him back to frigid, sparsely populated, expansive Mongolia. They obliged, and he served as an English teacher in western Mongolia from 2006 to 2009. Following his service, he remained in Mongolia, working as a freelance photographer and journalist for a year, while also researching and writing this guide.