Jesse Taylor was Online Communications Director for Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio in both his campaign and administration from 2005 until 2008. He founded Pandagon in July of 2002 while he was supposed to be writing his undergraduate thesis. He thinks he made the right choice.

Amanda is an executive editor of Pandagon.net, a columnist and podcaster for RH Reality Check, and the author of "It's A Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide To Politically Inhospitable Environments". She lives in Austin, TX.

Lee Papa has been writing the blog The Rude Pundit since September 2003. He has performed his one-person show based on the blog in New York, Philadelphia and Calgary, and a CD is available of his show "The Year of Living Rudely." In his non-blog life, Papa is a professor of drama and playwriting at the College of Staten Island/CUNY.

Dr. Black is a senior fellow with Media Matters for America and operates the popular weblog Eschaton under the pseudonym of Atrios. Prior to joining Media Matters, Duncan was an academic economist, having positions at the London School of Economics, University of California at Irvine and Bryn Mawr College after receiving his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1999.

Kevin Drum is a contributing writer for the Washington Monthly and has authored their blog, Political Animal, since March 2004. Prior to that he wrote Calpundit, an independent liberal political blog. During the 90s he was vice president of marketing for a software company in Irvine, California. He lives with his wife and two cats in Irvine.

Digby writes about politics and culture at her web site Hullabaloo and The Campaign For America's Future's blog, The Big Con.