Tony is the political director of the Young Democrats of America, where he oversees peer-to-peer Democratic youth turnout campaigns, issue advocacy efforts and collaborative operations with allied organizations. Prior to working for YDA, Tony was with the Arizona Democratic Party as their Non-Traditional Campaigns Director, where he was responsible for creating innovative ways to combine traditional field, volunteer, and online activism into one collaborative effort. Prior to that, Tony was one of the National Directors of Generation Dean, Dean for America's groundbreaking youth campaign.

Hans Riemer, a political consultant to campaigns and nonprofits, was the Obama campaign's National Youth Vote Director from March 2007-2008, where he helped organize an unprecedented turnout of young voters in the primary campaign. In 2004 and 2006, Hans was the political director for Rock the Vote, playing a role in the youth turnout increases of those elections. Previously, Hans ran a national coalition policy campaign for ourfuture.org that stopped Bush on Social Security during the first term. After a year on the Obama campaign, he is home in Maryland with his wife Angela and their baby, Henry.

At the League, Sam Dorman synergized a background of diverse interests in multimedia, youth development, politics and culture into a many-headed youth-engagement monster. After getting "hooked" helping organizers nationwide post voter guides for their local communities, he helped create the League's cutting-edge internet programs like do-it-yourself voter-guides at theballot.org and the innovative Facebook primary election. Sam's unconventional career path includes stints at MoveOn during the 2004 election, as a trainer/facilitator for a youth college scholarship program, a radio DJ for KCRW in LA, founding a youth multimedia education program, a music festival director, a documentary filmmaker and a jazz-hip-hop musician.

Andrew Villeneuve is the founder of the Northwest Progressive Institute, born and raised in Washington State. His political career began while he was a high school freshman. Frustrated by the local right wing's success at cutting taxes through ballot measures, he created a website, www.permanentdefense.org, to fight back. In 2003, he realized that being on defense wasn't enough and launched something bigger: a strategy center devoted to examining all the issues and advancing the common good. NPI is revolutionizing grassroots politics by pioneering new ways to use technology to communicate, organize and engage progressives, especially progressive youth.

Named by Hispanic Magazine as among the top Latinas in government and politics, Maria-Teresa Petersen is the founding executive director of Voto Latino. Voto Latino engages a new generation of Americans in civic participation by leveraging online, media campaigns and grassroots efforts. Maria-Teresa appears as a political analyst on Hardball, NBC, PBS, NPR and Fox News. Maria-Teresa is a PPIA Fellow, a National Hispana Leadership Institute Fellow, and a founding board member of the Latino Leader's Network. Maria Teresa holds a Masters from Harvard and an International Economics degree from University of California, Davis.

Michael Connery is the author of "Youth to Power: How Today's Young Voters Are Building Tomorrow's Progressive Majority" and he blogs about the youth vote at Future Majority. He is also a contributor to the blogs MyDD and Tech President. Michael is an at-large member of the DNC Youth Council and sits on the advisory boards of the Young Voter PAC and Head Count, an nonprofit that registers young voters at concerts. In 2003, he was the co-founder of a similar organization called Music for America, and served as its communications director and web editor in 2003 and 2004.

Jane Fleming Kleeb is the executive director of the Young Voter PAC which helps candidates and state parties win with the 18-35 year old vote. She is also an MTV Street Team reporter and appears on Fox and MSNBC. Jane served as Executive Director of the Young Democrats of America where she transformed the organization, raising over $3 million dollars and building a peer-to-peer field model that blends non-traditional and tried-and-true political outreach which now serves as a model. Jane is married to Scott Kleeb, candidate for US Senate. They live in Hastings, NE, with their two little girls.