Currently the Online Director for the Leadership Center for the Common Good, Nathan's experience with organizing stretches back 18 years, almost of which was spent working with organizations of low and moderate income families in communities of color. Before coming to Common Good, he was the originating online organizer (and almost all of the online team) for a national low-income people's organization. With an understanding of field and online organizing and marginalized communities, Nathan helps organizations new to the online world build on their core field organizing models to leverage their strengths using online technology and methods. His mantra these days is "helping organizing groups have the right conversations at the right time with the right people." (Picture is of NHJ in the backyard of the house where his mother grew up in Lobito, Angola.)

James Rucker is co-founder and executive director of ColorOfChange.org, an online activist organization of more than 600,000 members that aims to strengthen the voice of Black America. It was founded in 2005 by James and Van Jones in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. James also serves as co-director of Citizen Engagement Laboratory, which uses digital media and technology to amplify the voices of underrepresented groups, particularly people of color and youth. Prior, James served as Director of Grassroots Mobilization for MoveOn.org Political Action and Moveon.org Civic Action and was instrumental in developing and executing on fundraising, technology, and campaign strategies. Prior to joining MoveOn, James worked in various roles in the software industry in the San Francisco and has provided coaching and technology consulting for other start-up ventures. He grew up in Seaside, California and received a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.

Robert Greenwald is a producer, director and political activist. Greenwald is founder/president of Brave New Films, a new media organization that uses moving images to educate, influence, and empower viewers. Under Greenwald, BNF has produced dozens of videos on social justice and political issues which have been viewed over 40 million times and forced pressing issues into mainstream media. Greenwald is currently directing Rethink Afghanistan, a documentary about the dangers of military escalation in Afghanistan. Greenwald is also the director/producer of several documentaries including: Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers and Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism.

Laura Clawson is a contributing editor at Daily Kos, a co-founder of Blue Hampshire, and senior writer at Working America, the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO. She has a PhD in sociology from Princeton University and has taught at Dartmouth College.