Baratunde Thurston is a comedian, author and vigilante pundit who successfully combines technology, politics and comedy. He co-founded the black political blog, Jack & Jill Politics in the summer of 2006, works as the web editor at The Onion and hosts Popular Science's Future Of on Science Channel. Baratunde has contributed to Vanity Fair, The UK Independent and WNYC, and with over 30,000 followers he tweets very, very hard.

Mr. Thurston, which he goes by in his bio, has often used satire as an expression of his activism and technology as a medium for that expression. He has self-published three books, including Keep Jerry Falwell Away From My Oreo Cookies and is currently writing How To Be Black, which will be published by Harper.

Baratunde was nominated for the Bill Hicks Award for Thought Provoking Comedy, declared a Champion of the First Amendment by Iowa State University, and called “someone I need to know” by Barack Obama. His stage presence has earned him speaking duties at the National Conference for Media Reform, Netroots Nation, South by Southwest Interactive & Film and Web 2.0 Expo. He has been featured various media outlets including ABC, NPR, BBC, CNN, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, C-SPAN and ComedyCentral.com.

Baratunde resides in Brooklyn, lives in The Internet and has over 30 years experience being black.

Most of the liberal community became familiar with comedian Lee Camp when he went live on Fox News and called them a "parade of propaganda and festival of ignorance." The clip went viral, garnering millions of views. Camp also writes humor and produces videos for the front page of the Huffington Post as well as contributing to The Onion newspaper. He’s also a prolific stand-up comic, having headlined over 500 colleges across the country and performing regularly with Laughing Liberally.
You might have seen Lee Camp on Comedy Central, PBS, SpikeTV, E! network, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” or Showtime’s “The Green Room.” He is also featured in the new bestselling book Satiristas! by Paul Provenza. George Carlin’s daughter Kelly recently had this to say: “Since my dad died, I’ve been concerned about who’s going to keep the torch alive, who’s going to keep it lit. And I saw Lee, and I was completely f*cking blown away by the balls he has. I thought ‘Hey, that’s like my dad.’ Three things about Lee really remind me of my father. One of which is that he’s a thinking person’s comic. Secondly, he may just piss you off a little. But the most important thing is that he’s really f*cking funny.”

Check out www.LeeCamp.net for more info, videos, and writing by Lee Camp.

Katie Halper is a comedian, writer, blogger, and filmmaker born, raised and based in New York. She is a founder of and comedian in the political comedy collective, Laughing Liberally. Katie has performed throughout the country, and at all four Netroots Nation Conferences. Her writing and videos can be found on Comedy Central, Huffington Post, Alternet, Daily Kos, Open Left, Working Life, Culture Kitchen. She has appeared on MSNBC, Air America, The Sam Seder Show, The Mark Maron Show, Laura Flanders' GritTV, WBAI, Sirius Radio, XM Radio POTUS, and The Alan Colmes Show and in The New York Times, New York Magazine, the LA Times, In These Times, Jezebel, Gawker. Katie headlined the Nation Magazine's Cruise. Katie's award-winning documentary about historical memory in Spain, La memoria es vaga, has been screened throughout Spain and the U.S. Katie was the co-producer of Tim Robbins and DCTV's Embedded Live, Associate Producer of Estela Bravo's Free to Fly: the U.S. Cuba Link, and outreach director of Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein's documentary The Take (La toma). She is currently editing her documentary on the social justice summer camp she (along with her mother and grandmother) attended, and their "Peace Olympics," the camp's non-violent and socially conscious alternative to color wars called Another Camp is Possible. Al Giordano of Narco News said "Every blacklisted comic is finally getting justice and its name is Katie Halper. I feel a great wave of pity for anyone who has never seen Katie perform." Victor Navasky of The Nation called katie "original, improvisational, witty and wise." And The National Review (believe it or not) called Katie "cute" and "a little brainy."

Matthew Filipowicz is a comedian, cartoonist, and satirist whose work has been featured on CNN, NPR, PBS, HBO, BBC, Ain’t It Cool News, Salon, the online versions of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic and the London Times, as well as the Thom Hartman Show, the Young Turks, Ring Of Fire and great deal of sites in the liberal blogosphere including Crooks & Liars, DailyKos, Brave New Films, and many more. He has created cartoons for the Nation, VoteVets, the ACLU-SC, Mother Jones Magazine, Netroots Nation, MoveOn.org, the Center for Media and Democracy, and the National Conference for Media Reform. He is a regular correspondent and sometimes guest-host for Ring of Fire Radio, blogs at the Huffington Post, and is the chapter head of Chicago’s Drinking Liberally and Laughing Liberally chapters where he performs with his comedy group, the Accountants of Homeland Security. His work can be found at http://matthewf.net

Elon James White, Editor in Chief of ThisWeekinBlackness.com, is a Brooklyn-based comedian, writer and is the host of the award-winning web series This Week in Blackness, a satirical look at race, politics and pop-culture in a so-called “post-racial” America. White has been a featured commentator on Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC and on VH1's Black to the Future &The Great Debate. His commentary on race and politics has been featured on Salon.com, The Huffington Post, Alternet and The Root. Praised as "The perfect comedian for the Obama era, talking race while exploding racial stereotypes" by Dr. Harris-Lacewell of Princeton on Politco.com and as "Precise, thought provoking and hilarious" by Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead, White continues to win accolades from critics, academia and audiences alike. White was the recent recipient of four 2009 Black Weblog Awards, including Best Humor Blog, Best MicroBlog (Twitter), Best Video Blog and Blog of the Year. He has been featured in The NY Observer, NY Post, Gothamist, Newsweek and Gawker and has appeared on ComedyCentral.com and Sirius Satellite Radio. White’s festival appearances include the DC Comedy Festival, the NY Underground Festival, 2009 LA Comedy Festival, the 2010 NC Comedy Arts Fest, and 2010 SF Sketchfest, where he headlined with The Just-Us League of America.