Boadicea is the managing editor of TexasKaos.com and recently was elected to the board of the Texas Progressive Alliance. She lives in Austin, and works in the tech industry. Nominated for a Koufax Award in 2006, Boadicea cut her teeth on politics in growing up in Arizona. When she moved to Texas, she saw how profoundly weird state politics could really be. She's alternately been appalled and amused ever since.

Catherine Geanuracos manages all interactive strategy and program development for Live Earth, including global online and SMS programs.

Rev. Osagyefo Sekou founded the Interfaith Worker Justice Center for New Orleans and Clergy & Laity Concerned about Iraq. He authored the critically acclaimed "urbansouls" (Urban Press, 2001) and the forthcoming "gods, Gays, and Guns: Religion and the Future of Democracy" (Ig, 2009). Rev. Sekou is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and Freeman fellow with the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He has lectured around the world—including Harvard Divinity School and University of Paris IV La Sorbonne. He is a third generation Pentecostal pastor and studied philosophy at the New School and theology at Union Theological Seminary.

Duke is an active blogger at various Progressive websites. In 2005 he founded Migra Matters – Progressive Immigration Reform, one of the first single-issue blogs to tackle the complex topic of immigration. Since then he has written exclusively on immigration reform and migrant issues, focusing on policy, legislation, research and the politics surrounding the issue.

Recently he joined forces with prominent pro-migrant and human-rights bloggers to found The Sanctuary, an on-line community centered on migrant issues that brings together new media, on-line activists, and members of established immigrant-rights organizations and advocacy groups to work towards meaningful reform

Craig Aaron is the communications director of Free Press, the national, nonpartisan media reform group. He works in the Washington office on issues related to media ownership, public media and the future of the Internet. He speaks regularly on media and journalism issues and blogs at SavetheInternet.com, StopBigMedia.com and The Huffington Post. He previously worked as an investigative reporter for Public Citizen's Congress Watch, where he launched the WhiteHouseforSale.org Web site. And he is a former managing editor of In These Times magazine and editor of the book Appeal to Reason: 25 Years In These Times.

Spencer Ackerman writes about Iraq, national security, counterinsurgency, counterterrorism and punk rock for The Washington Independent and his personal blog, Attackerman. He used to work at Talking Points Memo and The New Republic and remains a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. He's reported from Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Israel, Qatar and has just returned from Afghanistan. He plays drums for The Surge.

As a first generation Nigerian, Nwamaka Agbo did not actively begin pursuing her interest in civil rights and social justice issues until college. Nwamaka is passionately committed to the work of the Green Collar Jobs Campaign because she believes that the pressing environmental justice concerns are the civil rights movement of her generation. Nwamaka is also an active member of Ella's Daughters, a new national networking organization focused on connecting women activists and organizers from across the nation around issues affecting our communities in memory of Ella Baker.

Safir Ahmed is an independent book editor and edits books for various publishing companies. Among the books he has edited are "Crashing the Gate" by Markos Moulitsas and Jerome Armstrong, "How Would a Patriot Act?" by Glenn Greenwald, "Thinking Points" by George Lakoff, "Anatomy of Deceit" by Marcy Wheeler, and the soon-to-be-released "Taking on the System" by Markos Moulitsas. Safir lives in San Francisco and works for both writers and publishers.

John Aravosis is a DC-based writer and political strategist, and the editor of AMERICAblog.com. Since 1995, John has been one of the nation’s top political Internet experts. John has a law degree and master in foreign service from Georgetown. He’s worked in the US Senate, World Bank, Children’s Defense Fund, and as a stringer for the Economist. John stopped Dr. Laura, bought Wesley Clark’s cell phone records online, and he’s the reason you know Mary Cheney is a lesbian. To his utter embarrassment, John is best known for outing conservative White House “reporter” Jeff Gannon as a male hooker.

Native Texan Jason Archer is a collected visual artists and Grammy winning director. Short films include Cough, Cold and High Fever commissioned by Al Gore's Live Earth campaign. He worked as an Animator on the feature film Waking Life and later re-teamed with Richard Linklater in 2006 this time serving as Head of Animation on A Scanner Darkly.

David Arkush is the Director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch division, which champions consumer interests in Congress and regulatory agencies and serves as a government and corporate watchdog. Public Citizen is a national leader in litigation and legislative advocacy on access to the courts. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Arkush has litigated consumer, civil rights, and administrative law cases and has taught appellate litigation at Georgetown University Law Center.

Dante Atkins was a classics major at UCLA before deciding that politics suited him better than academics. Dante started blogging at DailyKos as "hekebolos" in 2004 and currently serves as a frontpage author at Calitics. Dante is very involved in the California Democratic Party, where he is an elected delegate. He also serves on the CDP Platform Committee, and co-authored a new platform plank that affirms the Party's support of net neutrality and bloggers' rights. Dante works with The Pollux Group, a firm specializing in qualitative research and online marketing strategies. Dante spends his free time obsessing over spiders.

David Atkins is a qualitative research consultant (focus group design & moderation) living in Ventura, CA. Blogging under the pseudonym "thereisnospoon", David has been a frontpager at several progressive community blogs, frequent diarist on DailyKos, and Netroots Coordinator for the Mary Pallant campaign in CA-24. Together with Adam Lambert, he co-hosts several Blogtalkradio shows and is a managing editor at Heading Left, Blogtalkradio's hub for progressive shows.

John M. Barry is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author whose books include "Rising Tide" and "The Great Influenza." His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, and many other publications. He has lectured at the National Academy of Sciences, the National War College, serves on advisory boards at M.I.T and Johns Hopkins, and is secretary of the levee board which oversees several levee districts in metropolitan New Orleans.

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

Rand Beers left the Bush White House two days before the Iraq War, opposing the War and the abandonment of our Afghanistan and counter-terrorism efforts. He then joined the John Kerry campaign as National Security Advisor. After the election, he set up the National Security Network to counter the Bush/conservative national security spin machine and lay out progressive alternatives for politicians and the public. Rand is a Harvard Kennedy School faculty member, and during his 36 year government career served in the Marines, the State Department and on the National Security Council under the last four presidents.

Currently the mayor of Anchorage, Mark Begich is a Democrat running to represent Alaska in the U.S. Senate. He has made smart energy policies a priority in Anchorage. Prior to being elected Mayor in 2003, Begich served in the Anchorage Assembly for ten years and was a successful businessman. You can learn more about Mark's campaign for honest leadership that gets results for Alaska's families at www.begich.com.

Edwin Bender has been involved with breaking down barriers to state-level political donor data for more than 15 years, first as research director of the Money in Western Politics Project, and later as research director for the Institute. He has investigated the relationship between campaign finances and election and public policy outcomes extensively. Prior to embarking on this work, Bender was a newspaper reporter and editor for newspapers in Montana, Alaska and Washington state, culminating a decade-long career at the Tacoma News Tribune.

Kenneth J. Bernstein is a National Board Certified social studies teacher. He holds degrees in music from Haverford, religion from St. Charles Seminary and teaching from Johns Hopkins University, with extensive doctoral studies in educational administration and policy studies at Catholic University, and additional studies in reading education at the University of Virginia. He has served as a peer reviewer for various educational publications and reviews educational and other books for a variety of publications. As teacherken, he blogs at Daily Kos (and elsewhere) on education, music, politics and life.

Jeremy Bird is the Ohio General Election Director for Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Previously, he served as the Obama campaign's South Carolina Field Director, Maryland State Director and Pennsylvania Field Director. He also worked with the campaign's national field team to take lessons from primary and integrate into general election strategy. Prior to the campaign, Jeremy worked as Congressional District Director for Howard Dean in New Hampshire and as Deputy Field Director at the DNC in 2004. Jeremy started out as a community organizer in Boston after graduating from Harvard Divinity School.