Nancy Altman is the Co-director of Social Security Works. She has a thirty-year background in the areas of Social Security and private pensions. She is the author of The Battle for Social Security: From FDR’s Vision to Bush’s Gamble (John Wiley & Sons, 2005). She is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pension Rights Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection of beneficiary rights. She is also on the Board of Directors of the Foundation of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, as well as the Board of the National Academy of Social Insurance, a membership organization of over 800 of the nation’s leading experts on social insurance.

Eric Kingson is the Co-director of Social Security Works. He is a professor of social work at Syracuse University’s School of Social Work, is also a Senior Research Associate in the Maxwell School’s Center for Policy Research. Kingson served as policy advisor to two presidential commissions — the 1982-3 National Commission on Social Security Reform and the 1994 Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform. Previously on the social work faculties of Boston College and the University of Maryland, he directed the Emerging Issues in Aging Program of the Gerontological Society of America (1984-5). He received his doctorate in 1979 from Brandeis University’s Florence Heller School for Social Policy and Management; his M.P.A. in 1976 from Northeastern University.

Robert L. Borosage is the co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future. Previously, Borosage founded and directed the Campaign for New Priorities, a nonprofit organization calling for post-Cold War reinvestment in America. He is the author of The Next Agenda: Blueprint for a New Progressive Movement. Borosage’s work has appeared in a number of mainstream and progressive publications, and he is a frequent television and radio commentator. In 1988, he was senior issues advisor to the presidential campaign of Rev. Jesse Jackson. He has also served as an issues advisor to many progressive political campaigns, including those of Senators Carol Moseley Braun, Barbara Boxer, and Paul Wellstone.

Heather "Digby" Parton is a political writer and activist from Santa Monica, California and founder of the progressive blog Hullabaloo. She is a principal in the progressive netroots political PAC, Blue America, and serves on the board of the Progressive Congress Action Fund. Her work also appears at Salon magazine, Huffington Post, Crooks and Liars, Alternet and Our Future.org. In 2007, she accepted the Paul Wellstone Award on behalf of the progressive blogosphere at the take back America Conference.

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.