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.

Micah L. Sifry is co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, a website and annual conference that covers the ways technology is changing politics and TechPresident.com, its award-winning group blog on how the American presidential candidates are using the web and how the web is using them. In addition to organizing the annual Personal Democracy Forum conference with Andrew Rasiej, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. In that capacity, he has been a senior technology adviser to the Sunlight Foundation since its founding in 2006. He joined the Consumers Union board in October 2010.

From 1997-2005, he was a senior analyst with Public Campaign, a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Washington, DC working on comprehensive campaign finance reform. Prior to that, Sifry was an editor and writer with The Nation magazine for thirteen years.

He is the author or editor of six books, most recently WikiLeaks in the Age of Transparency (ORBooks, 2011). He is also the co-editor (with Allison Fine, Andrew Rasiej and Jos Levy) of Rebooting America (Personal Democracy Press, 2008), co-author with Nancy Watzman of Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? Washington on $2 Million a Day (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), author of Spoiling for a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America (Routledge, 2002) and co-edited The Iraq War Reader (Touchstone, 2003) and The Gulf War Reader (Times Books, 1991).

Lorelei has 13 years of experience working in and around the US Congress. In1998, she founded “Security for a New Century” a study group for the House and Senate that continues to this day. Kelly has abackground in conflict and negotiation both domestically and abroad, and is a certified mediator. As the Real Security Initiative Director at the White House Project, she trained hundreds of women candidates across the USA on how to communicateabout national security. When President Obama won in 2008, she founded The Progressive Caucus Foundation (now ProgressiveCongress.org) as a hub between forward thinkers inside and outside of Congress. Kelly has co-authored two books “PolicyMatters: Educating Congress on Peace and Security” and a civil-militarydialogue guide called “A Woman’s guide to Talking About War and Peace”. She blogs at the Huffingtonpost and care2.org.

Kelly grew up in Northern California and Northern New Mexico. She earned a BA from Grinnell College and an MA from Stanford University. She has an extensive civil-military background, and attended the Air Command and Staff College program of the U.S. Air Force.

Christina Gagnier leads the Intellectual Property, Internet & Technology practice at Gagnier Margossian LLP, with a specialization in social media, copyright and information privacy.

Gagnier consults technology firms on international and domestic policy issues ranging from data security to communications issues, such as Network Neutrality. Gagnier’s primary research concerns cyber rights and the intersection of on and offline action, inspired by her research at Stanford Law School for Lawrence Lessig, where she worked on Code 2.0 and Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Previously, she served as the Chief Information Officer of Mobilize.org, the Millennial Generation public policy and advocacy organization, directing the organization’s strategic communications, online interface and research programs. She still serves as the CEO of REALPOLITECH, a digital public relations and web strategy consultancy.

Gagnier has several forthcoming publications, with a piece on social media and crisis communications in PRNews‘ 2010 Crisis Management Guidebook. Her latest article, On Privacy, will appear in the Journal of High Technology Law in Summer 2011.

Christina blogs in the Technology section of The Huffington Post, is a columnist on legal ethics on the web for California Lawyer and has been a contributor to CBS News’ What’s Trending. She is frequently invited to sit on panels discussing issues like Information Privacy and Data, law in the digital age, Government 2.0 and citizen engagement. She has also been a guest commentator on TV shows like Russia Today’s CrossTalk and NBC’s Press:Here, on radio stations such as KCBS in San Francisco and WCCO in Minnesota, and has also been quoted in publications such as MSNBC, The Atlantic, Politico and The New York Times.

Gagnier earned a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from the University of California, Irvine, a Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco. She can be found on Twitter @gagnier.