Elisa Batista is a co-founder and moderator of the progressive parenting website MotherTalkers, which was named by Ms. magazine a “favorite mom blogger.” She also blogs and is an advocate for the family organization MomsRising.org, and as if she were not busy enough, she helped start an independent Spanish-immersion school in Oakland, California, called Escuela Bilingüe Internacional.

Batista is a journalist by training and profession who has been published in the Huffington Post, Wired News in San Francisco, the Boston Herald, and several Boston-area weeklies. A native of Miami who is of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent, she now lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and founder of the Daily Kos, Markos Moulitsas, and their two children.

Sarah Granger has 20 years of experience at the intersection of technology and government, including security, technology policy, online politics, new media, and open democracy projects. She recently founded the Center for Technology, Media & Society. A Fellow for the Truman National Security Project, Sarah helps guide progressives on cybersecurity as co-chair of their national expert group.

Sarah began her career working in cybersecurity for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and then at the California Maritime Academy, after finishing a degree in "Technology & Society" at the University of Michigan. She then worked at three Internet startups before pursuing technology policy projects at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, where she served as a delegate to the World Summit on the Information Society. Now she chairs the digital government committee of the U.S. Public Policy Council of ACM, a global organization of technology professionals.

During the 2004 presidential campaign cycle, she directed the launch of the first ever blog to be published by a prospective candidate. Since then, she has advised statewide and national political organizations and candidates on new media strategy through PublicEdge, WomenCount and now the Women’s Campaign Forum. In 2009, the California Democratic Party presented her with their New Media Award.

Sarah has regular blogs at The Huffington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle at SFGate.com. She has written for a wide range of publications including Security Focus, techPresident, MOMocrats, and MSNBC.com, and she has covered the Democratic National Convention and the White House. A contributing author of the book, Ethical Hacking, Sarah has edited five books on government 2.0, mobile security, cryptography and biometrics. She has also been featured on CBS News, Good Morning America, RT and NPR.

Sarah is on the advisory committee for Netroots Nation and regularly speaks at conferences around the country, including South by Southwest Interactive, Computers, Freedom and Privacy, and Fem 2.0. Find her at SarahGranger.com and on Twitter as @sairy.