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Wyndi Marie Anderson is a feminist and social justice advocate who has been working for the protection of human rights for over ten years. Her recent work for the rights of drug-addicted women has earned her national recognition as a leader in both the women’s rights and the drug policy reform movements.

Vinnie Angel is an artist, filmmaker, and author whose pop culture-savvy work deals directly with taboos and feminism. His most well-known art project was a five-year long commitment to making men and women comfortable with menstruation via Vinnie's Tampon Case.

Periel Aschenbrand is the author of The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own and founder of the tee shirt company Body As Billboard. Inspired by Barbara Kruger and Vivienne Westwood, she runs the tee shirt company Body as Billboard, using the “prime advertising space” of a woman’s chest for activist, rather than corporate, sentiments. 

Jennifer Baumgardner is the co-author of both  Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future and  Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism She was the youngest editor at Ms. Magazine, and produced the documentary I Had An Abortion. Her most recent books include Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics, which explores gender, sexuality, and feminism, and Abortion & Life, a portrait of women sharing their abortion experiences.

Helen Benedict is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and the author of four novels and four books of nonfiction. She is currently at work on the nonfiction book The Lonely Soldier: Women at War in Iraq, to be published by Beacon Press in March 2009, and has just won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism (2008) for this work. 

Writer, editor, and historian Hanne Blank's work “…does for sex what feminism does for women: it gives us context” (Libido), and The Village Voice raves “…the perfect poster girl, clearly confident… a huge helping of stereotype busting, old-fashioned feminist consciousness raising, and self-esteem elevation.”

Pamela Tanner Boll is an artist, filmmaker, writer and activist. She is the co-executive producer of the lauded Academy Award-winning documentary, "Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids" and is the producer of multiple forthcoming films.

Ellen Bravo is a widely acclaimed trainer, public speaker, and author. As National Director of 9to5, she is one of the nation’s foremost experts on working women’s issues.

Paula J. Caplan is a clinical and research psychologist, author of books and plays, playwright, actor, and director. She is a currently a Research Associate at the DuBois Institute, Harvard University, and Lecturer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. 

Author of Mama's Girl, Poetic Justice: Filmmaking South Central Style and several books for children including: Amistad Rising (a picture book), The Harlem Renaissance (a middle grade book) and two young adult novels, Marisol and Magdalena, Quinceañera Means Sweet 15, and Double Dutch: A Celebration of Jump Rope, Rhyme and Sisterhood.

T Cooper is a transgendered novelist, writer, and performer. T is the author of Lipshitz Six, Or Two Angry Blondes and Some of the Parts.  T's work explores living beyond the gender binary, contemporary Jewish identity, and indie vs. mainstream media. 

Former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (1996-2005); author of The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back. 

Ann Fessler brings an adoption piece to the issue of reproductive justice. Her book, The Girls Who Went Away, tells the stories of young women who were forced to give up their children for adoption in the decades before Roe vs. Wade.

Author of groundbreaking classics such as The Women's Room and Beyond Power.

Former editor of Ms. and Essence magazines and an AIDS and women's health expert.

Cathi Hanauer is the editor of The New York Times bestselling essay anthology The Bitch in the House, and the author of two novels, Sweet Ruin and My Sister’s Bones. 

Judith Helfand is a Peabody award winning filmmaker, activist and educator.  Her films include A Healthy Baby Girl and Blue Vinyl.  She speaks on environmental issues and linking filmmaking to social change and is currently a professor at New York University.

Linda R. Hirshman is a retired lawyer and Allen/Berenson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Brandeis University. She is the author of several books, including the controversial Get to Work : A Manifesto for Women of the World. With almost no effort, she landed spot No. 77 on Bernard Goldberg’s 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America.

Dr. Shere Hite is the researcher/author of the legendary series of books known as The Hite Reports. She is currently a Professor of Clinical Sexology at Maimonides University (U.S.).  The Shere Hite Reader: Sex, Globalization, and Private Life was published by Seven Stories Press in 2006.

Author of Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods—My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine and co-editor of Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up With Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents.

The co-founder and publisher of Bitch: A Feminist Response to Pop Culture, and co-editor of both BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine and Young Wives Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership.

Journalist, playwright and author of All in My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache and Her Way: Young Women Remake The Sexual Revolution. 

Author of Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders. Gaining proves that healthy nutrition is only a first step. True recovery requires a new understanding of the role that genetics, personality, relationships, and anxiety play in these disorders.

Creator of the internationally renowned organizations Dress for Success and Do Something.  Nancy is also the author of Pandora's Box: Feminism Confronts Reproductive Technology.

Catharine A. MacKinnon specializes in sex equality issues under international and constitutional law. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and, with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civil rights violation.  She is one of the most widely-cited legal scholars in English.

Irshad is the best-selling author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith.   She is currently the Director of the Moral Courage Project at New York University.  Before coming to NYU, Irshad hosted “Big Ideas,” a Canadian TV program that features innovative thinkers in fields ranging from science to spirituality.

Courtney E. Martin is the author of Perfect Girls, Starvings Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body. An adjunct professor of gender studies at Hunter College, she has been honored by Choice USA and has received the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics.

Editor of Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing, and author of the memoir The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts, about biracial adoption and her journey to find her birth family.

Professor Oppenheimer has lectured on discrimination law at numerous universities.  He is a law professor and associate dean at Golden Gate University School of Law, in San Francisco.  He also co-authored book on racism, Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society.

Peggy Orenstein is an internationally recognized writer, editor and speaker about issues affecting girls and women. She is the author of a new memoir, Waiting for Daisy..; as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World, and the best-selling SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap.

Award-winning columnist for The Nation, poet, and author of Virginity or Death!, Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture , Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism, and Learning to Drive.

Nancy is currently CosmoGIRL! magazine’s Body & Soul expert and the Cosmogirl.com sex and health blogger.  In her new book Body Drama, which is a 2008 NAACP Image Award nominee, Nancy celebrates the many versions of “normal,” replacing seriously erroneous information with the honest, medically proven truth in a language all girls can understand. 

Amy Richards is the co-author of both Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future and Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism.  Her most recent book is Opting In: How to Have a Child Without Losing Yourself.  She also co-founded Third Wave Foundation and Soapbox, Inc. and writes a feminist advice column, Ask Amy, at www.feminist.com. 

Ashley Rhodes-Courter was born in North Carolina in 1985 and entered foster care in 1989.  New York Times Magazine published her grad prize winning essay (out of 3000 high school entries) about her adoption day.  She expanded her essay into a memoir, Three Little Words, which has just been published by Simon & Schuster.

Outspoken sexual assault survivor and the Founder of PAVE (Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment), and President of the Wisconsin chapter of NOW.

Loretta Ross is at the forefront of reproductive justice for women of color. The National Coordinator of the Sistersong Women of Health Collective, she has testified before Congress and the United Nations in support of human and reproductive rights.

Writer, poet, activist, musician and biological researcher, Julia Serano is a true Renaissance woman. The author of Whipping Girl: A Transexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Serano is reshaping our views on gender, feminism, and what it means to be a woman.

Gloria Steinem is one of the most influential writers, editors, and activists of our time.

Co-founder, current editor, and owner of Bust, an independent and feminist version of the women's magazine; co-editor of The Bust Guide to The New Girl Order.

Lisa Tiger is an HIV/AIDS activist and spokesperson for indigenous peoples' issues.

Creator of The Empower Program and author of the current best-seller Queen Bees and Wannabees.

Jewel Woods is an author and a gender analyst whose work focuses on men and boys.  He is the author of Don't Blame It On Rio: The Real Deal Behind Why Men Travel to Brazil for Sex.  Jewel is the founder and executive director of The Renaissance Male Project, Inc. a non-profit advocacy and accountability organization for men and boys.