Darcy Burner is the Executive Director of ProgressiveCongress.org and Progressive Congress Action Fund. She plays a key role connecting the progressive movement with Congress. A former candidate for Congress in Washington State, organizer of A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq, and hero of the Netroots, she has been featured regularly in the media including appearances on MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. She is a regular front page contributor to OpenLeft.com discussing matters pertaining to Congress, and writes for DailyKos, Crooks & Liars, and Huffington Post as well.

Darcy is a board member of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Campaign for a Livable World’s PeacePAC, the SNAP PAC Advisory Board, the Progressive Ideas Network Advisory Board, the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC and the Netroots Arts and Education Initiative, a part of Netroots Nation.

Hon. Thomas H. Andrews is the National Director of Win Without War, a coalition of over 40 national progressive organizations created in 2003 to oppose the war in Iraq. He also serves as Executive Director of New Security Action, a 501c4 advocacy organization, and as Senior Advisor to the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. Founder and president of New Economy Communications (NEC), Andrews orchestrated the National Labor Committee’s 1996 media campaign that exposed the sweatshop abuses by the manufacturers of Kathie Lee Gifford’s Wal-Mart clothing line. As a member of Congress, Andrews served as president of his freshmen class, a Deputy Majority Whip and member of the House Armed Services Committee. Andrews is a widely known and respected political strategist and organizer who has promoted progressive causes throughout his career.

Major General Paul D. Eaton served more than 30 years in the United States Army, including combat and post-combat assignments in Iraq, Bosnia and Somalia. As a major general he was assigned to Iraq as Commanding General of the Coalition Military Assistance Training Team (CMATT), where he developed, designed and began the training of the Iraqi military and security forces from 2003 to 2004. Prior to that assignment, he commanded the Army's Infantry Center and was Chief of Infantry for the Army. Eaton has appeared on Hardball, Face the Nation, and Tavis Smiley discussing US national security and human rights policy. In 2008 Eaton served as an advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. He holds a bachelor's degree from West Point and a master's in French from Middlebury College. He is married to PJ, has two sons and a daughter, all soldiers.

Matthew Hoh is a former State Department official who resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan over US strategic policy and goals in Afghanistan in September 2009. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew served in Iraq; first in 2004-5 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-7 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matthew worked on Afghanistan and Iraq policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-8. Matthew’s writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post and his resignation letter has been cited as an Essential Document by the Council on Foreign Relations. Matthew was recently named the 2010 Ridenhour Prize Recipient for Truth Telling.