Dave Johnson is a Fellow at Campaign for America's Future, writing about American manufacturing, trade and economic/industrial policy. He is also a Senior Fellow with Renew California.

Dave is founder and principal author at Seeing the Forest, and a blogger at Speak Out California. He is a frequent public speaker, talk-radio personality and a leading participant in the progressive blogging community.

Dave has more than 20 years of technology industry experience including positions as CEO and VP of marketing. His earlier career included technical positions, including video game design at Atari and Imagic.

Mark Mellman is one of the nation’s leading public opinion researchers and communication strategists. He is CEO of The Mellman Group and recently named "Pollster of the Year" by the American Association of Political Consultants. The Mellman group is a polling and consulting firm whose clients include leading political figures, For-tune 500 companies, and some of the nation's most important public interest groups. A leading political researcher and strategist, Mellman counts among his clients The Majority Leaders of The U.S. House (Steny Hoyer) and Sen-ate (Harry Reid). In addition, Mellman has helped guide the campaigns of some sixteen U.S. Senators, eight Governors and over two dozen Members of Congress. Mellman also serves as consultant to many of the nations most important public interest organizations ranging from The National Education Association, to The National Environmental Trust and The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. Government agencies, including the Department of Justice, the World Bank and the State Department have also sought Mellman’s guidance. Mellman’s corporate clients include Intuit (the makers of Quicken), AT&T, Coca Cola, and United Airlines. His groundbreaking research has helped define how nonprofits and businesses can use the Internet for online communications, organizing, and fundraising.

The firm’s string of upset victories has led the Boston Globe to call The Mellman Group Washington’s “hottest” political consulting firm, and the New Republic describes Mellman as “a leading Democratic technologist.” Capitol Hill’s newspaper, Roll Call, named Mellman one of the most influential people in Washington when it comes to electing candidates to Congress.

Mellman received his undergraduate degree from Princeton, and graduate degrees from Yale University, where he taught in the Political Science department. He has served as a consultant on politics to CBS News, a presidential debate analyst for PBS, and is currently on the faculty of The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. Mellman’s op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, among other leading papers and he writes a weekly column for “The Hill” the newspaper for and about Congress.

Scott N. Paul is the founding Executive Director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), which was launched in April 2007. AAM is a non-profit, non-partisan partnership established by some of America’s leading manufacturers and the United Steelworkers to explore common solutions to challenging public policy topics such as job creation, infrastructure investment, international trade, and global competitiveness.

AAM has become a prominent voice for American manufacturing and its workers, publishing research, books and online resources; conducting advocacy on key issues; and working closely with leaders in both political parties to promote domestic production and employment.
Prior to forming the Alliance, Mr. Paul was the principal lobbyist for the Industrial Union Council and was a trade lobbyist at the AFL-CIO, where he led the labor movement’s legislative initiatives on international trade, manufacturing, and foreign policy issues.
Mr. Paul’s Capitol Hill experience extended from 1987 to 2001. He served as a staff member to the late Rep. Jim Jontz (D-IN) and former Rep. Peter Barca (D-WI), and as the chief foreign policy and trade advisor to then-House Democratic Whip David E. Bonior (D-MI).
Mr. Paul earned a B.A. in Foreign Service and International Politics from the Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. with honors in Security Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He resides with his spouse Ilisa Halpern Paul and twin boys in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Annabel Park is an award-winning filmmaker whose acclaimed documentary about America's culture war over immigration, 9500 Liberty (http://www.9500liberty.com/), is currently playing in theaters around the country.

In February, her FaceBook status about the Tea Party sparked a national grassroots movement, the Coffee Party. It is now a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization with local chapters across the
country. (http://coffeepartyusa.com/) It is a major presence of FaceBook (http://www.facebook.com/coffeeparty) with fans outnumbering most organizations and political parties including the Republican Party, Libertarian Party and the Democratic Party.

Annabel was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to Houston, TX when she was nine years old with her family. She grew up in Texas and Maryland. She studied philosophy at Boston University and political theory at Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar.

Annabel’s life experiences include working with inner city children, management consulting, writing and directing theater, and combining new media and political activism. In 2007, Annabel was the national coordinator for the 121 Coalition, organizing a historic grassroots effort to successfully pass U.S. House Resolution 121, also known as the “comfort women” resolution, which will be the subject of her upcoming film Journey Into the Divide.

9500 Liberty has won three film festival awards: the "Breakthrough Filmmakers Award" at the Phoenix Film Festival, the "Best Documentary" at the Charlotte Film Festival, and the "Audience Award" at the St. Louis International Film Festival.