Michael Shaw is a clinical psychologist and publisher of the popular blog, BAGnewsNotes. BNN—the '05 Koufax Best Post winner and ’06 Webby finalist for Best Political Blog—is exclusively dedicated to visual politics and the deconstruction of visual framing. The site parses news photos and ideological images for political trends, media bias and right-wing spin. Through contributing relationships with top photojournalists, BAGnewsNotes also publishes political and war images bypassed by mainstream media. Besides his "Reading The Pictures" series regularly featured on the Huffington Post home and media page, Shaw writes an on-line column for American Photo Magazine.

Since 2002, Andrea Batista Schlesinger has applied her background in public policy, politics and communications to turn the Drum Major Institute (DMI), originally founded by an advisor to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement, into a progressive policy institute with national impact. Under Andrea's leadership, DMI released several policy papers including "TheMiddleClass.org 2007 Congressional Scorecard” and “Election '08: A Pro-Civil Justice Presidential Platform." Andrea studied public policy at the University of Chicago, is on the Editorial Board of The Nation and a contributor to Huffington Post. Andrea diarys at: www.dmiblog.com/archives/authors/4.html

Jeffrey Feldman is the author of two books on politics and language, ("Framing the Debate," 2007; "Outright Barbarous," 2008) and editor in chief of the influential political blog Frameshop (http://frameshopisopen.com). Dr. Feldman has a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, which he applies broadly to the analysis of media, politics and communication. He has been a frequent guest on the Thom Hartmann Program, Action Point with Cynthia Black, The Peter B. Collins Show, The Current (CBC Radio) and CBC Newsworld. He lives and teaches in New York City.

George Lakoff is Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has served for 36 years. Before that, he taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan. His new book is "The Political Mind: Why You Can’t Understand 21st Century Politics with an 18th Century Brain." He previously published the national best-seller "Don’t Think of an Elephant," as well as "Moral Politics," "Whose Freedom," and "Thinking Points."
For more than a decade, he served as founding senior fellow at the Rockridge Institute, whose website is still available and useful: www.rockridgeinstitute.org

David Neiwert is the managing editor of Firedoglake. He's a freelance journalist based in Seattle and the author/editor of the blog Orcinus. He also is the author of Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community (2005), as well as Death on the Fourth of July: The Story of a Killing, a Trial, and Hate Crime in America (2004), and In God's Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest (1999). His reportage for MSNBC.com on domestic terrorism won the National Press Club Award for Distinguished Online Journalism in 2000.