Debbie Hines is a lawyer who has become one of the most influential and prominent African American bloggers in the country today. She is a legal and political commentator based in Washington, DC who founded Legalspeaks.com, a progressive blog, on gender and race in law and politics. She is also a contributing writer for the Huffington Post, Op Ed News, Politic 365 and the Women’s Media Center. Her works have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Debbie has been a guest on the Michael Eric Dyson show, appeared on XM Satellite radio and on local television in Washington, DC on NBC and CBS affiliates.

Addressing issues on gender and race, Debbie speaks on hot political and legal topics and local and national headline legal trials. She speaks from a perspective that is rarely heard in mainstream media. She is also recognized as a women’s media expert. Her political comments have been quoted in Black Enterprise, on CNN and in the Washington Post, to name a few.

As a trial lawyer, Debbie has fought for the rights of victims injured by defective products, in courts across the country. She holds a Juris Doctorate from George Washington University Law School and a BA in American history from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a native of Baltimore, MD.

Currently, while managing her boutique law firm, Jeneba covers the White House and US Congress as the Washington Correspondent for Politic365.com. She also authors a widely read blog for the Washington Times, The Politics of Raising Children, and her own influential blog focusing on the intersection of politics and technology, JenebaSpeaks.com. It is frequently accessed by top policy makers, think tanks and the investment community. On her Blog Talk Radio show, Right of Black, Jeneba provides a perspective slightly to the right of traditional liberal black pundits. She has appeared on Sirius/XM satellite radio shows The New School with Charles Ellison and The Mario Armstrong Show; on News Channel8/TBD TV show “Let’s Talk Live” and on WOL’s "The Tech Talk Show."

Before opening her law firm, The Ghatt Law Group, the nation’s first communications firm owned by women and minorities, Jeneba was the Assistant General Counsel for the District of Columbia's Office of Cable Television and Telecommunications. Before that, she was an associate at the international law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher. She is currently, a founding member and policy chair for a new trade association, the National Association of Multicultural Digital Entrepreneurs. She has won several landmark cases at the FCC and this year, represented the nation’s top consumer and civil rights group as counsel before the United States Supreme Court.

Born in Sierra Leone, West Africa, and raised in the US by her Catholic mom and Muslim dad, in college she worked part time for the University of Maryland's Office of Technology creating web content for one of the earliest websites in history. She holds two law degrees: a Juris Doctor from Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law and a Master of Law in advocacy from the Georgetown University Law Center. She has lectured and taught at Yale Law School, Georgetown Law, Penn State University and the University of Maryland at College Park; and has published articles in legal journals.

In 2010, Jeneba was among 22 bloggers and journalists to attend at the first African American Online Summit at the White House.

Judy Lubin is a writer, researcher and communications strategist. She writes about politics, technology and the dynamics of race, class and gender in the media on her blog LeadingVoices.org, The Huffington Post, PBS.org and other sites around the web. As president of Public Square Communications, a Washington, D.C. area strategic communications, policy and social marketing consultancy, Judy advises government agencies, foundations, nonprofit and political organizations on issues ranging from health to broadband and social media. She has managed strategy and messaging for several local and national public outreach campaigns and authored numerous policy and issue briefs, advocacy communications and media statements on behalf of progressive organizations and causes.

She is a former Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Public Health Fellow and previously served as communications director for two national women’s health organizations and coordinator of the National Minority AIDS Council’s Women of Color and online advocacy programs. She has been featured on national and local media including The Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, Boston Women’s Journal, Ebony Magazine, Chicago Sun Times, Reuters, XM Satellite Radio, Star Telegram, among others. She is currently working on a PhD in sociology at Howard University, where her research interests include sociology of media and technology, public opinion, social movements, and social inequalities (race/class/gender).

Kristal Lauren High, Esq. is the founding Editor In Chief of Politic365.com, the premier digital destination for politics and policy related to communities of color. In her capacity as Editor in Chief, Kristal has been a featured guest on Sirius/XM satellite radio shows "The New School" and "The Mario Armstrong Show." She has also been featured as part of the National Urban League's "I Am Empowered" campaign.

Beyond her work with Politic365, Kristal routinely engages in research, legal analysis and strategic consultations regarding the leveraged use of the Internet for online coalition building, stakeholder outreach, political advocacy and multimedia production.

Kristal has worked as a research analyst for the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council and the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Media & Technology Institute, where she has developed a subject-matter expertise on broadband adoption patterns among minority, low-income and underserved populations.

Prior to embarking on a career in journalism, media and telecommunications, Kristal practiced employment and business litigation at LeClair Ryan, LLP. She's worked as a Government Relations Associate with the Charlotte Bobcats, and an Assistant Director with Yetta Young Productions LLP. Kristal obtained her Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Davidson College, where she was inducted into the leadership fraternity Omicron Delta Kappa, and received her Juris Doctor from Washington and Lee School of Law.