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.

Sasha Costanza-Chock is a researcher and media maker who works on the political economy of communication, community media, and the transnational movement for media justice and communication rights. Sasha lives and works in Los Angeles, where he is a community board member and active participant in the VozMob (Mobile Voices / Voces Móviles) project. VozMob is a platform for immigrant workers to create stories about their lives and communities directly from cell phones. VozMob uses popular education and participatory design to build communication power with day laborers, household workers, and students.

Sasha helped organize the worldwide indymedia network; worked on global communication policy with Free Press; and is active with the transmission.cc network. He has a PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, is currently a Knight Media Policy Fellow at the New America Foundation, and in the fall of 2010 will begin a Fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

You can find his CV, with links to book chapters, journal articles, other writing, and various new media projects here: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~costanza/scc_cv.html

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.

Ruth Williams is a Community Investment Officer for ZeroDivide. Ms. Williams is responsible for a portfolio of media-related social justice grants and initiatives that strengthen families and empower young people through the use of information and communications technologies. She has nonprofit, business, and government experience including Deputy Director of Young Community Developers in San Francisco, a variety of San Francisco City and County positions, including Director of Operations for the Mayor's office and Senior Project Manager at the Department of Elections. She serves on the Citizen Advisory Committee of Grants for the Arts, San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund. She also serves on the boards of Community Initiatives, a fiscal sponsor which provides financial and programmatic oversight to unincorporated nonprofit projects, and Bay Area Blacks in Philanthropy (BABIP), a membership organization that addresses the impact of racial disparity within philanthropic institutions and African American communities in the Bay Area. Ms. Williams holds a Masters of Arts degree from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago.