Scott Paul is the Executive Director of AAM. He brings 20 years of experience in policy, politics and advocacy to AAM. Prior to forming the Alliance, Paul was the principal lobbyist for the Industrial Union Council and was a trade lobbyist at the AFL-CIO. Paul’s writings have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and other national and regional publications; he has been quoted in those publications, as well as USA Today and the Associated Press; and he is a regular guest on networks such as CNBC, CNN, and National Public Radio.

Leo W. Gerard became the first president of the new USW at its founding convention in 2005, formed by a merger with the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union creating the largest industrial union in North America. Gerard has been instrumental in bringing the union tens of thousands of new members through innovative merger agreements with the IWA in Canada, the American Flint Glass Workers, the Canadian National Railway Track Workers and various independent unions.
Prior to his election as President, Gerard held the positions of Secretary-Treasurer, National Director for Canada and Director of District 6 in Ontario.

Robert Borosage is currently the president of the Institute for America’s Future and co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future. He is acting chair for the American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation. Borosage is a contributing editor of The Nation and a regular columnist on The Huffington Post. He writes regularly on economic and national security issues. Borosage is founder of Progressive Majority, and the Campaign for New Priorities, a non-profit organization calling for post-Cold War reinvestment in America. He has also served as an advisor to many progressive political campaigns, including those of Paul Wellstone and Barbara Boxer.

Congresswoman Donna F. Edwards represents Maryland’s 4th Congressional District. She serves on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the Science and Technology Committee, and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.

Prior to serving in Congress, Rep. Edwards was the executive director of the Arca Foundation and the co-founder and executive director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, both in Washington, D.C.

Rep. Edwards attended Wake Forest University and received her Juris Doctor from Franklin Pierce Law Center. She is the proud mother of one son.

Tula Connell, managing editor of the AFL-CIO website, (www.aflcio.org) and AFL-CIO Now blog (www.aflcio.org/blog), has worked as a writer and editor in the union movement for the past 18 years. She has taught adult editing and writing courses in Washington, D.C., and has led communications workshops for union leaders across the country. Connell has worked on daily newspapers in Virginia and Texas, and holds a B.A. in Journalism from Marquette University, an M.A. in European History from Yale University and is completing a doctorate in American History at Georgetown University.

Marcy Wheeler blogs as “emptywheel” at FireDogLake.com, and also for the Campaign for America’s Future. She is best known for her book, Anatomy of Deceit, which served as a primer of the CIA Leak case, and her live-blogging of the Scooter Libby trial. She has covered efforts to hold the Bush Administration accountable for its illegal warrantless wiretapping and torture programs. Wheeler has a PhD from the University of Michigan and has spoken on blogging and politics at Amherst College, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Duke Law School. She was recently awarded the 2009 Hillman Prize for Blog Journalism.