A pioneer in open government, election integrity, and personal privacy rights, Debra Bowen became the sixth woman in California history elected to a constitutional office. As chief elections officer, Secretary Bowen is responsible for overseeing state and federal elections. Her goal is to ensure that voting machines certified for use are secure, accurate, and accessible, and every voter's ballot is counted as it was cast. Bowen was recognized for her national leadership in election integrity with the 2008 John Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, the nation's most prestigious honor for elected public servants who choose principles over partisanship.

Jonah H. Goldman is the director of the National Campaign for Fair Elections in the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s Voting Rights Project. Jonah is responsible for implementing the Campaign’s mission of developing policy and strategy to reform election administration at the federal, state and local level. His responsibilities include leadership in the Election Protection Coalition, and the Lawyers’ Committee election reform advocacy and litigation docket. Jonah co-founded the National Network on Election Reform, a consortium of national civil rights, voting rights, and civic organizations dedicated to implementing meaningful election reform at the state and national level.

Steven Rosenfeld is a senior fellow at AlterNet.org, where he reports on elections from a voting rights perspective. He is author of "Count My Vote: A Citizens Guide to Voting" (AlterNet Books, 2008), co-author of “What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election” (The New Press, 2006), and author of "Making History in Vermont: The Election of a Socialist to Congress," (Hollowbrook Publishing, 1992). He has been a staff reporter at National Public Radio, Monitor Radio, TomPaine.com, many Vermont newspapers and an executive producer at Air America Radio.

Renée Paradis works to reform the process of voter registration, including fighting restrictions on registration drives and advocating for student voting rights. She also works on general election reform issues, including voter ID. A native of California, Paradis was a fellow at the Drug Law Reform Project of the ACLU and clerked for the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. She received her J.D. in 2003 from Columbia Law School, where she was a notes editor of the Columbia Law Review and received her B.A. from Columbia College in 1998.

Becky Bond is the political director at CREDO Mobile and Working Assets, a company that has raised $60 million for progressive change through donation linked products. Working with the student PIRGs, CREDO launched the seminal 2006 study of the effect of text messaging on "get out the vote," demonstrating a 4 percentage point lift in voter turnout from SMS. Becky also serves on the board of the New Organizing Institute.