Joe Sudbay is the Deputy Editor of AMERICAblog and AMERICAblog Gay. He's worked in progressive politics, on campaigns and at organizations, for over twenty-five years. Currently, he consults with progressive organizations on new media. He got his J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law in and his undergraduate degree from UNH. A native Mainer, Joe lives in Washington, DC.

Adam Bink blogs and organizes e-action campaigns at the progressive political blog OpenLeft.com. At OpenLeft, Adam principally writes about progressive and LGBT movement strategy and infrastructure. He provided on-the-ground coverage from the No On 1/Protect Maine Equality campaign to protect the state's marriage equality law, and wrote extensively about movement strategy questions around the National Equality March. He also co-organized the OpenLeft/Freedom to Marry Blog 4 Equality contest to send marriage equality organizers to Netroots Nation. Since 2007, Adam has managed OpenLeft's advertising and collaborates on design, technical work and action alerts.

Adam is also the Online Strategy Manager for Progressive Strategies LLC. He specializes in online communications and social networking strategies including new media outreach and using internet tools for creative action. While at Progressive Strategies, Adam coordinated the research, editing, fact-checking, and publishing process for The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be by Mike Lux. He also planned and executed the 60-event, 29-city national book tour and traveled extensively to promote the book with Mike.

Prior to joining Progressive Strategies and OpenLeft, Adam produced reports on women elected to local governments and coordinated event logistics while working at the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership at the University of Rochester. Adam also interned with the HELP committee staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) and at campaign finance and public affairs firms.

Adam holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Rochester and an M.A. in Political Management from the George Washington University. He hails from Buffalo, N.Y. and, yes, actually enjoys the record-setting snowfalls featured on cable news. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, playing ultimate frisbee around town, and relaxing at quirky lefty independent coffee shops. He can be reached at adambink at gmail dot com.

Julia got her start in politics working for Common Cause. She moved out to California to work for the Alliance for a Better California. Julia continued her work in the labor movement, serving as the Online Communications Director for Working Californians. She was the Courage Campaign's Online Political Director for several years before moving over to the Progressive Change Campaign Committee as a Senior Campaigns Director. Julia currently works as a Campaign Director for MoveOn focusing primarily on economic campaigns. Her blogging has been lacking as of late, but she has been an editor at Calitics and an occasional contributor to Crooks and Liars. Julia currently serves as a trainer for the New Organizing Institute.

Michael Crawford is New Media Director for Freedom to Marry, the leading campaign to win marriage nationwide. His work focuses on using the power of the internet to build a tech-fueled movement to end marriage discrimination.

He has a wide range of experience in political advocacy, new media, and grassroots organizing. He was co-founder and co-chair of D.C. for Marriage, a grassroots group that helped to successfully pass the D.C. marriage bill.

He served as Associate Field Director at Human Rights Campaign specializing in working with state and local advocacy organizations to advance pro-LGBT legislation. As Communications Director at Energy Action Coalition, a coalition of youth and student organizations building a clean energy movement, Michael developed media strategies to tell the stories of young people against man-made global warming. He also served as Online Director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

He moved to Washington, D.C. to help organize the 2000 Millennium March on Washington for LGBT Equal Rights, which brought together more than 750,000 advocates for LGBT equality.

For his work on the freedom to marry in D.C., he was named as one of The Advocate Magazine's 2009 People of the Year and one of the Washington Blade’s “10 People Who Make Us Proud.”

He blogs at Bilerico.com and the Huffington Post on LGBT politics and culture.