Betsy and Maggie are the founders of Mulberry Tree Consulting, an organization development practice in North Carolina that specializes in the design and facilitation of strategic planning, leadership coaching and team development for community-focused organizations. They are currently writing The Partnership Solution: Success and Sanity for Entrepreneurial Women, a guide to creating and leading business partnerships based on stories shared by 45 successful women entrepreneurial partners across the country.

Before starting Mulberry Tree Consulting, an organization development practice that works with organizations that are striving to make a positive difference for their employees and their communities, Betsy Polk was a consultant in the Washington, DC area.  She received a B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst and an M.S. in Organization Development from the American University/NTL Graduate Program. She lives in Chapel Hill, NC with her husband Marc and children, Michael and Annie.   

Prior to creating Mulberry Tree Consulting, Maggie Ellis Chotas was a teacher, administrator and consultant to public and independent schools in Philadelphia, New York City, Charlotte and Durham, NC.    She earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.A. from St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD.   Maggie lives in Durham, NC with her husband Harrell and children, Georgia and Nicholas.

Gitika Ahuja is currently a producer for ABC News, Good Morning America in New York.  Gitika began her career at ABC News in 1999 in the Los Angeles bureau. Since then she has been based in 3 more news bureaus (Atlanta, Boston, New York) and produced stories for all ABC News platforms, including World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline, Good Morning America, ABCNEWS.com, and This Week with George Stephanopoulos. 

Major stories she has covered range from the Florida Election Recount and Enron Scandal, to post-9/11 troop deployment, anthrax cases in South Florida, the execution of Timothy McVeigh,  Shuttle Columbia disaster, capture of Eric Robert Rudolph and more hurricanes and natural disasters than she cares to recall.

In 2003, Gitika went to Kuwait and Iraq to cover the Iraq invasion as a unilateral journalist and in 2004 to Port-au-Prince, Haiti to report on the coup to overthrow then President Jean Betrand Aristide. Then, in 2004, she became the sole producer of the Boston Bureau for ABC News, where she covered the legalization of Gay Marriage and spearheaded the network's local planning of the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.

Gitika is the winner of an Emmy Award for Outstanding Instant Coverage of a Breaking News Story for World News Tonight Weekend coverage of "Elian Gonzalez" (2001) and an Excellence in Media Silver Angel Award for "Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti" (2005).

Gitika graduated with a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Spanish from Boston University in 1998.  She was born in New Delhi, India, raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles and currently lives in Midtown Manhattan.