Laurie Ignacio is a Campaign Associate with Presente.org, a national online organizing network dedicated to the political empowerment of Latino communities. From immigrant rights to public health, Laurie is a long time activist who seeks to leverage community empowerment, public policy, and technology for social justice. Laurie is a UC Berkeley Public Policy & International Affairs Fellow and former teacher, organizer, and campus leader. She graduated from Pomona College with a degree in History and currently lives in Oakland, CA.

Joaquin Guerra is a New Media Campaign Manger for Service Employees International Union where he leads SEIU’s online campaign for immigration reform and member to member political engagement. He previously served as the Deputy New Media Director for the Richardson for President Campaign and Director of New Media for Governor Richardson's successful 2006 re-election. He has over 11 years of field and political experience at the local, state and national levels, as well as working in the Texas Legislature and doing community organizing.

James Rucker is co-founder and executive director of ColorOfChange.org, an online activist organization of more than 600,000 members that aims to strengthen the voice of Black America. It was founded in 2005 by James and Van Jones in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. James also serves as co-director of Citizen Engagement Laboratory, which uses digital media and technology to amplify the voices of underrepresented groups, particularly people of color and youth. Prior, James served as Director of Grassroots Mobilization for MoveOn.org Political Action and Moveon.org Civic Action and was instrumental in developing and executing on fundraising, technology, and campaign strategies. Prior to joining MoveOn, James worked in various roles in the software industry in the San Francisco and has provided coaching and technology consulting for other start-up ventures. He grew up in Seaside, California and received a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.

Rich Benjamin is author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, winner of a 2009 Editor's Choice Award by Booklist and the American Library Association.

As a journalist-scholar, Benjamin tackles issues surrounding the nation’s middle class, demographic change, democracy, immigration, economic inequality, and race. Benjamin’s work appears regularly in the media (MSNBC, CSPAN, Fox, NPR, USA Today, The New Yorker, Salon, Alternet, and Huffington Post).

Currently, Benjamin is Senior Fellow at Demos, a non-partisan national think tank with offices nationwide.

Amalia Deloney is a Guatemala-born activist, cultural worker and Grassroots Policy Director at the Center for Media Justice. amalia has over 15 years of experience in community and cultural organizing and community education. Her specific focus includes human rights and anti-racism education, cultural rights, the production of knowledge, and movement building. She was a 2004 recipient of the Mansfield Upper Midwest International Human Rights Fellowship, a 2007 Salzburg Seminar fellow during their Immigration and Inclusion: Rethinking National Identity program, and was a recipient of a Gaea Sea Change fellowship in 2009. She is currently a Knight Media Policy Fellow at New America Foundation. amalia earned her B.A. in Urban Studies and History from Macalester College and her Juris Doctorate with a focus on Social Justice from Hamline University School of Law. Her areas of specialization include community organizing and education, and cultural rights.