Elsa Salazar Cade is an award-winning Mexican American science teacher and entomologist. Elsa received her undergraduate degree in elementary education at the University of Texas at Austin and her master's in public school administration at Niagara University. She is certified for New York State as a school district administrator.
A long time amateur entomologist, with her husband, William H. Cade, she discovered the first case of a parasite using the sexual signal of a host in order to locate and parasitize the host. With her husband, Elsa has done over 30 years of research on the Texas field cricket, Gryllus texensis. This research has covered the behavior of the field cricket at different densities and under parasitic pressure from the red eyed fly Ormia. Orthoptera research has taken Elsa to South Africa and Zambia. She was selected as one of the top ten science teachers in 1995 by the National Science Teachers Association for her work in including disabled children in the general science class. Elsa helped develop a hands-on instructional program for middle school teachers through support from the National Science Foundation at the University at Buffalo.
Once in Alberta, Elsa sat on the board of Science Alberta, a not-for-profit foundation committed to science education and awareness. Elsa now sits on the board of the Lethbridge Youth Foundation. Elsa was recently awarded with the University of Lethbridge's Senate volunteer award. As one half of the presidential couple, Elsa has supported and engaged in countless University activities and events, and advanced the institution’s relationship with local and global communities.
Following the earthquake in Haiti, Elsa harnessed the power of blogging at the Daily Kos and online social networking to raise funds to purchase 130 shelterboxes, large containers that hold a 10-person tent, blankets, a stove, a tool kit, and other equipment needed by the survivors of that natural disaster.

Neeta Lind aka navajo is the community organizer of SFKossacks, the readers of Daily Kos in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also founded Native American Netroots, a online forum for the discussion of political, social and economic issues affecting the indigenous peoples of the United States, including their lack of political representation, economic deprivation, health care issues, and the on-going struggle for preservation of identity and cultural history. Neeta has lead the Native American Caucus at Netroots Nation every year since 2006. Her blogging in 2010 caught the attention of Keith Olbermann to focus a couple of segments of Countdown on the winter ice storm disaster in South Dakota that devastated the Lakota Reservations; hundreds of thousands of dollars were raised to help these tribes as a result.

Feminist, activist, former Young Lords Party and Black Panther Party member, applied cultural anthropologist, currently teaching Anthropology and Women's Studies. Blogs at Daily Kos as Deoliver47 and is an editor for Black Kos, LatinoKos and the AIDS Action community.

Renee Chantler is an attorney in California and has dedicated most of her professional and personal life to justice for the poor, including the African-American poor. She received her law degree from Stanford Law School and has practiced for nearly 20 years, handling commercial transactions and complex litigation in the fields of unfair competition, real estate, business contracts and intellectual property rights. In the past decade her work has emphasized representing homeowners who are defending against title stripping, predatory lending and unfair mortgage brokerage practices. Renee received her undergraduate degree in Psychology, with an emphasis on Black Psychology. In her spare time, Renee is an accomplished poet, online video gamer, public servant, grandmother and blogger. Her online writing often addresses intentional and unconscious racism, especially anti-Black racism and its impacts on political strategy, consensus and coalition building on the Left.

David Reid is a Chemical Engineering Graduate from the University of Michigan. During his career David has worked for a number of Global Fortune 500 companies in both personal care and pharmaceutical research and development, as well as running cGMP Pilot Plant processes. David is currently employed by a manufacturer of kosher food products as a Liquid Process Manager. David has also been a partner in a small business, as well as currently running one part time.

As a politically active individual David has volunteered and/or donated on every Presidential campaign since high school; as well as working on numerous Congressional, Gubernatorial, Senate, and local campaigns. David is an active poster, participant, and commenter on a number of blogs, especially on those dealing with political forecasting and economics. David is also a member of the Rescue Rangers on Daily Kos.

David has had a long love of learning and teaching about other cultures dating back to his being president of the Caribbean Peoples Association in college. Upon seeing the reaction of many in the traditional media to the 1st Yearly Kos events as "being largely white" David started the Black Kos community on Daily Kos. Black Kos was an attempt to both visibly promote bloggers of color as well create a space for people of all colors to learn about Black history, culture, and news. As a well documented opponent of "silo thinking" where groups only focus on their own issues, David felt that it was better to promote news item over looked by the traditional press on a forum where a number of people of different races and cultures would interact.