Rose Marie Arce is a senior producer for CNN based in New York and has served on the boards of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, as well as the San Francisco State University Newswatch project. Arce has won two Emmy awards for Spot News and Investigative Reporting. As a print reporter, most recently for New York Newsday, she shared the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting.

Hendrik Hertzberg is a senior editor of The New Yorker, where he frequently writes the opening “Comment”  in “The Talk of the Town.” He served on the White House staff throughout the Carter administration and was President Carter’s chief speech writer during his last two years in office. He then served two terms as editor of The New Republic.  Hertzberg is the author of Politics: Observations & Arguments, and, most recently, ¡Obamanos!  He  has won four National Magazine Awards.

Susan Meiselas is a renowned photographer who’s work has been published widely, including in The New York Times Magazine, The Times of London, Time, Geo, Paris Match, Machete, and in several books. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1992. Her work has been featured in many one-woman shows and is included in museum collections in Europe and the United States.

Harold Meyerson is the editor-at-large of The American Prospect and a weekly op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, writing chiefly on politics. He is a frequent guest on television and radio talk shows, and author of Who Put The Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?, a biography of Broadway lyricist Yip Harburg

Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation. She is the author of A Dictionary of Republicanisms (An Indispensable Guide to Their Doublespeak) and the editor or co-editor of several collections. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Boston Globe—and she is a frequent commentator on American and international politics on MSNBC, ABC, CNN and PBS. She has won numerous awards for her journalism and public service.