Jill Richardson became interested in food policy when she spent a week working in a cardiac ICU and realized many of the patients could have prevented their illnesses by improving their eating habits. Since then, she's worked with the Netroots community to seek solutions to the problems in America's food system. Jill blogs at La Vida Locavore and the title of her first book is Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do To Fix It.

Emily Best is currently a graduate student at American University focusing on food and agricultural policy by way of international environmental politics and international development. She is interning this summer at the National Family Farm Coalition where she researches how the U.S. is involved in international food policy. Originally from the Pittsburgh area, she has lived, studied and worked in London, France, and West Africa. She doesn't blog much, but when she's on dailykos, her name is starfall18.

Dave Murphy is a sixth generation Iowan and the founder and director of Food Democracy Now!, a national grassroots advocacy organization dedicated to building a sustainable food system for the 21st century. Since it's launch in December 2008, FDN! has grown to more than 100,000 individuals. FDN! began as a letter to President Obama calling for sustainable change at the United States Department of Agriculture and has initiated campaigns calling for the Sustainable Dozen, the reinstatement of Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, at Washington State University and support for independent family farm agriculture and vibrant rural communities.

Natasha is an amateur eater with severe snarkolepsy and a c. 2002 blogging habit. She's had a fabulous time writing on such blogs as Food.Change.org, MyDD and OpenLeft.