Sarah Granger has 20 years of experience at the intersection of technology and government, including security, technology policy, online politics, new media, and open democracy projects. She recently founded the Center for Technology, Media & Society. A Fellow for the Truman National Security Project, Sarah helps guide progressives on cybersecurity as co-chair of their national expert group.

Sarah began her career working in cybersecurity for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and then at the California Maritime Academy, after finishing a degree in "Technology & Society" at the University of Michigan. She then worked at three Internet startups before pursuing technology policy projects at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, where she served as a delegate to the World Summit on the Information Society. Now she chairs the digital government committee of the U.S. Public Policy Council of ACM, a global organization of technology professionals.

During the 2004 presidential campaign cycle, she directed the launch of the first ever blog to be published by a prospective candidate. Since then, she has advised statewide and national political organizations and candidates on new media strategy through PublicEdge, WomenCount and now the Women’s Campaign Forum. In 2009, the California Democratic Party presented her with their New Media Award.

Sarah has regular blogs at The Huffington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle at SFGate.com. She has written for a wide range of publications including Security Focus, techPresident, MOMocrats, and MSNBC.com, and she has covered the Democratic National Convention and the White House. A contributing author of the book, Ethical Hacking, Sarah has edited five books on government 2.0, mobile security, cryptography and biometrics. She has also been featured on CBS News, Good Morning America, RT and NPR.

Sarah is on the advisory committee for Netroots Nation and regularly speaks at conferences around the country, including South by Southwest Interactive, Computers, Freedom and Privacy, and Fem 2.0. Find her at SarahGranger.com and on Twitter as @sairy.

Kety Esquivel is Vice President Digital Influence for Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide (Ogilvy PR). Kety was most recently the Executive Director for Latinos in Social Media. She has over 15 years of experience in the non-profit, private and political sectors. She directed Latino outreach for the Clark Presidential Campaign. Her work has taken her to China where she lived for nearly four years and to Ethiopia with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. She spent three years coaching executives on human capital and diversity in the US, Canada and Latin America for Eastman Kodak Company. She has worked as the New Media Manager for the National Council of La Raza.

Kety is a published author and co-founder of several start-ups. She has served on several boards, including that of the Puerto Rican Youth Development and Resource Center and the New Leaders Council. She has been a speaker at Netroots Nation, SXSW, Personal Democracy Forum, BlogHer, the Center for New Words, Gov 2.5 and Gov 2.0 Camp LA. She has worked with O'Reilly Media, Women Action and the Media and Blogalicious. She has been a convener for Web of Change and She's Geeky and is a past editor of BlogHer. Her commentary has been featured and quoted in stories for the Wall Street Journal Online, HITN, PBS, XM Radio, Democracy Now, CNN, Televisa and Univision. She also blogs on the Huffington Post.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University where she served on the Board of Trustees.

You can follow her on Twitter http://twitter.com/KetyE. In her spare time, Kety loves to travel, explore new cultures, read, write, dance and hang out with her family and her small Pomeranian Max.