Andy works with the Poker Players Alliance in their grass-roots effort to protect the freedoms of poker players both on-line and live. Their efforts have implications for Internet freedom far beyond poker.

Although Andy holds two degrees from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School, his real job is poker, with over $4,300,000 in tournament winnings.

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.

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.

Garlin Gilchrist II is Director of New Media at the Center for Community Change. Before joining the Center, Gilchrist was a Software Engineer at Microsoft, Social Media Manager for the 2008 Obama campaign in Washington, and co-founder of The SuperSpade: Black Thought at the Highest Level, a leading Black political blog. Mr. Gilchrist co-founded blacknetaction, a diverse, strategic collective online activists, and is the Senior Policy Analyst for Technology at the Northwest Progressive Institute. As part of the New Organizing Institute's Trainer & Speakers Bureau, Gilchrist trains activists, candidates and staffers on utilizing new media in their work. Garlin brings experience and passion for transformative communication and connection to the Boards of the National Black Programming Consortium, the Media and Democracy Coalition, Reclaim The Media, and the YES! Magazine Communications Advisory Board.