Dr. Frank Mwine Esq. graduated from Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. He served on the staff of the World Bank for twenty years.  Dr. Mwine served as Chairman Managing Director of the Uganda Commercial Bank for three years, expanding and computerizing the Bank while offering Loans to Rural Farmers. He can be reached at fmwine@utlonline.co.ug.

Jonathan Clarke is an independent producer and Chief Consultant of The Clarke Groupe, a St. Louis, Missouri media and communications company specializing in corporate video production, media training and strategic message development.

Kai Beasley is a 2007 graduate of Emory University in Atlanta, GA, where he majored in film studies. He has written news stories and humorist editorial columns that have been published on more than 50 websites and online news outlets worldwide.  Kai is also the editor of stupidreport.com.  To contact him, please email him at kbeasl@gmail.com.

Lonnie Soury is president of Soury Communications, Inc., a full service, issue oriented communications firm specializing in public relations, public policy and government affairs, economic development, media and crisis communications.

Mr. Soury has 30 years experience in the communications field having managed some of the industry's largest and most prominent businesses. 

Marisa Treviño is a Dallas, Texas-based freelance opinion journalist whose writings focus on Latino and social justice issues pertaining to education, immigration, women and families.

Michael H. Cottman, an award-winning journalist and author, is a Senior Correspondent for BlackAmericaWeb.com, a division of REACH Media/Radio One, the nation’s largest black-owned media company. Cottman, a former reporter for The Washington Post, Newsday and The Miami Herald, is also a lecturer in the Department of Journalism at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

A 2007 graduate of Howard University, Michelle Nealy is a news reporter for Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, the preeminent news source for information concerning education, race relations and the professoriate. Her work has been featured in The Times-Picayune, Black Enterprise magazine, Heart & Soul magazine and BlackAmericaWeb.com. A native of California, Ms.

Neil Foote has 25 years of experience in all aspects of the media, including print, broadcast and the Internet. Foote has been a newspaper reporter (The Miami Herald & The Washington Post), a newspaper industry executive (American Society of Newspaper Editors) and an Internet strategist (The Dallas Morning News, Belo Corporation, Tom Joyner).

Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education, a 501c3 non-profit think tank that provides a national voice of reason on issues of race and poverty in the media, inner city neighborhoods, and public policy.

TaRessa Stovall is a veteran writer and strategic organizational communications expert specializing in cultural perspectives.