Amie Newman is the managing editor for RH Reality Check—an online publication covering global reproductive and sexual health news and information. She began her communications career more than fifteen years ago, working in television production for NBC, MTV and PBS before moving on to communications work on behalf of various progressive organizations. Amie was on the original board of directors for the magazine Our Truths-Nuestras Verdades and also works with One by One, an agency working to eliminate obstetric fistula worldwide. She lives in Seattle with her fabulously crazy family.

Marcotte rose to prominence in 2004 and 2005 as the first feminist blogger to gain traction and traffic in the larger political blogosphere. She continues to blog tirelessly at Pandagon, Slate’s Double X, and RH Reality Check. Marcotte has authored two books: It’s A Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments and Get Opinionated: A Progressive’s Guide to Finding Your Voice (and Taking a Little Action).

Marcotte has published on her unapologetically pro-choice, pro-science, progressive feminist ideas in Slate, Salon, the American Prospect, and the Guardian UK. She also podcasts on sexual health and reproductive rights weekly for RH Reality Check, the most popular reproductive rights publication online. She’s appeared on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow, the BBC, and frequently on political radio talk shows across the nation.

Marcela Howell is the vice president of communication, marketing and policy for Advocates for Youth, a non-profit organization that supports programs and policies for the sexual and reproductive health of young people. She is the author of Walk in My Shoes: A Black Activist's Guide to Surviving the Women's Movement. Howell has a wealth of knowledge in public policy, grassroots organizing, public education and communications. She taught African American literature and linguistics in the Black Studies Department and a course on Black Women in American Literature for the Women’s Center at Washington University in St. Louis.

Eesha Pandit is currently director of advocacy at The MergerWatch Project in New York. She is active in MergerWatch’s work with Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need. She has been a regular contributor to RH Reality Check and previously served as Associate Director of Programs at the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program. She has also worked with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and Amnesty International USA’s Women’s Rights Program. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and the University of Chicago.