Gina is a new media strategist and founding partner of Middle Coast. Gina specializes in using technology to bring together engaged Americans with political experts. Her approach to online politics has become a cornerstone of the online progressive movement.

She is also the founder and past CEO of Netroots Nation, the most dynamic and influential political organization to emerge from the early years of the progressive blogosphere.

Gina continues to explore innovative ways in which the Internet can help ordinary people become invested in their own political solutions. Most recently, Gina co-founded Tweet Progress, a directory of progressives on Twitter. Last summer Gina traveled to Taiwan to advise top elected officials on open government initiatives. In 2008 Gina was a member of Barack Obama’s policy advisory committee for Technology, Media, and Telecommunications and served on the E-Government-E-Democracy subcommittee. Gina regularly appears on CNN.com as a progressive spokesperson.

Peter Leyden just finished a period as Director of the New Politics Institute, a think tank helping people in politics understand and adapt to the huge changes in technology and new media. He now is focusing on how to use new technologies and new processes to move big ideas and more transformative agendas into politics. Leyden previously worked as managing editor at the original Wired magazine, and as director of Global Business Network’s pioneering think tank on the future. He was a journalist, a special correspondent in Asia for Newsweek, and coauthor of "The Long Boom" and "What's Next."

Brad Miller is serving his fifth term from North Carolina's thirteenth Congressional District.

Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November of 2002, Rep. Miller currently serves on three subcommittees on the House Financial Services Committee - Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE); Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee; and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.

Miller also serves as Ranking Member of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee and is a member of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee on the House Committee on Science, Space & Technology.

Miller spearheaded the effort in the House to pass a national Anti-Predatory Lending law and a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau bill that were included in the Wall Street Reform Act signed by the President. He has also written a Bankruptcy bill to try to help save family homes.

In his role as Ranking Member on the Energy and Environment Subcommittee, Miller will continue his push for innovation and research into alternative energy sources and energy efficient technologies that will define the world’s economy for the next generation and beyond.
Miller served one term in the North Carolina House and three terms in the state Senate. As a state legislator, he consistently supported the General Assembly's efforts to increase teacher pay across the state, reduce class size and improve rural North Carolina's access to computer technology and the Internet.

Miller is a product of North Carolina's public schools, attending Terry Sanford Senior High in Fayetteville and later the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for his undergraduate studies. He also holds a masters degree from the London School of Economics and a law degree from Columbia University.

Andrew Rasiej is a futurist, social entrepreneur, and Founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and website about the intersection of politics and technology. He is also the co-founder of techPresident.com, which covers how the Obama administration is using the web, and how technology is empowering citizen engagement. He has advised Senators, Congressmen and political leaders on the use of Internet since 1999. In 2004 he served as Chairman of the Howard Dean Technology Advisory Committee. He is also the founder of MOUSE.org, Co-Founder of Mideastwire.com, and serves as Senior Technology Advisor to the Sunlight Foundation.

Silona Bonewald is currently focused on creating the League of Technical Voters. Previously she has worked in the gaming industry, creating high visibility web presences, content management systems and large database back-end integrations. She was also the program chair at a technical college. Silona volunteers for the ACLU and EFF on technology-based civil liberties issues, and has lobbied on various issues. The combination of her involvement in political activism, educational activism, psychometrics for gaming communities, lobbyist work, netizen activities and large systems architecture make her uniquely suited to envision the framework that will make the LoTV system all possible.