Kirsten Miller received a degree in Business Administration from UCLA. She developed an extensive background in both business and personnel management when she created, and then franchised her own photography studios. Since selling her business, she has spent considerable time volunteering for her local school district serving on several boards, and helping to develop programs for children of a wide range of special needs.

After Kirsten received her general and advanced divorce mediation training, she served as a volunteer with The Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution (now "Mediation Matters") in Albany, New York. She is a member of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation. She practices mediation at Capital District Mediation with Sally Skees-Helly.

Sally Skees-Helly is a graduate of Xavier University (B.A. 1986) and DePaul University Law School (J.D. 1991) and was admitted to the Ohio and Massachusetts state bars. She worked as a clerk in international customs and trade law with a small firm in Chicago, IL, as well as with the environmental division of the Illinois Attorney General in Chicago. She worked in land use and public utility law as an associate attorney in Massachusetts. She received training in mediation and took extensive course work in alternative dispute resolution while in law school and worked for both the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago, IL and the City Prosecutor’s Mediation Division in Cincinnati, OH.

Sally opened and operated two restaurants with her husband and recently moved to the Capital District. She is a member of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation, the New York Dispute Resolution Association, Inc., and the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York.