I'm a latte-drinking, bike-riding, NY Times-reading, taco-loving, social justice do-gooder freak show originally from NC. I have been an advocate and organizer with immigrants and refugees in Charlotte, New York/Newark, and LA, as well as in Zimbabwe and Great Britain. I have an undergraduate degree in history and international relations from Wake Forest University, a master's in public administration from Columbia University and a postgraduate certificate in forced migration studies from the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Through Aquifer Media, I designs social campaigns and digital storytelling that cultivate community and civic participation.

Cheryl Contee, Partner at Fission Strategy, specializes in helping non-profit organizations and foundations use social media to create social good. She is also the co-founder of Jack and Jill Politics writing as “Jill Tubman” on one of the top 10 black blogs online. Cheryl is included in The Root 100 list of established and emerging African-American leaders. Fast Company has named her one of their 2010 Most Influential Women in Tech. She has over 13 years of award-winning interactive expertise and previously served as Vice President and lead digital strategist for Fleishman-Hillard’s West Coast region in San Francisco. Cheryl has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, San Francisco Magazine, BBC, and CNN, among other media appearances. She is also proud to serve on several boards and advisory committees: Netroots Nation, BlogHer, Blogging While Brown, Applied Research Center, and CommonGoods.Net. She received her B.A. from Yale University and has an International Executive M.B.A. from Georgetown University. In her spare time, Ms. Contee enjoys hiking, yoga, movies and tai chi sword.

Rinku Sen is the Executive Director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and Publisher of ColorLines magazine. She has written extensively about immigration, community organizing and women's lives for publications including The Huffington Post, Jack and Jill Politics, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes.com, AlterNet, and ColorLines. She has written two books: Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing (Jossey-Bass) and most recently, The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization (Berrett-Koehler), which won the Nautilus Book Award Silver Medal. Rinku was named one of 21 feminists to watch in the 21st century by Ms. Magazine.

Kyle de Beausset is a 25-year-old pro-migrant blogger, activist, and organizer. He was born and raised in Guatemala of U.S. citizen parents and first became involved in the pro-migrant movement when he almost lost his life to smugglers trying to retrace the route of a Guatemalan migrant into the U.S. He was deeply involved in trying to pass the DREAM Act and is now working for administrative relief from the Obama administration and on getting the media to stop referring to people as illegal human beings.

Jacki Esposito is the policy coordinator at Detention Watch Network, a national coalition of advocates working toward the humane reform of the immigration detention and deportation system. Prior to joining DWN, Jacki served as a staff attorney in the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York City where she gained firsthand experience working with individuals facing mandatory detention and subsequent deportation as a result of their contact with the criminal justice system.

Today, Jacki lives in Washington, D.C. with her dog, Benny.