Creating an Orange Utopia: Eliza Lovell Tibbetts and the Birth of California's Citrus Industry

Patricia Ortliebis a great-great-granddaughter of Eliza Lovell Tibbets and a docent at the San Diego Museum of Art, where she has volunteered for the past ten years. She served for more than two decades as a trainer, counselor, and teacher specializing in training skills and therapeutic behavior modification, including assertive and humanistic psychology. She is also a licensed family therapist, an artist, and an author. She earned her BA in education and art history at California State University and her MA in social science at Azusa Pacific University. She lives in San Diego.

Peter Economy is associate editor of Leader to Leader, the award-winning publication of the Leader to Leader Institute. He is the bestselling author, co-author, or ghost writer of more than forty-five books, including The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company; Lessons from the Edge: Survival Skills for Starting and Growing a Company; and Managing for Dummies. He has also written for the Venture Edge blog and a wide variety of websites and magazines. He lives in San Diego.