Speakers
[Note the conference program is still a work in progress. This page will be updated as new information or changes are confirmed. Affiliations listed for identification purposes only.]
| Abdulai Bah | Nah We Yone / People's Production House |
| Adrienne Maree Brown | Ruckus Society |
| Alex Curtis | Public Knowledge |
| Alex Nogales | National Hispanic Media Coalition |
| Alexandra Russell | Free Press |
| Alexis Walker | People's Production House |
| Alison Hanold | Center for Social Media |
| Allie Pates | Females United for Action |
| Alondra Espejel | Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network |
| Alyce Myatt | Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media |
| Amalia Anderson | Main Street Project |
| Amina Fazlullah | U.S. Public Interest Research Group |
| Amy Goodman | Democracy Now! |
| Amy Klobuchar | U.S. Senate |
| Andre Banks | ColorofChange.org |
| Andrew Jay Schwartzman | Media Access Project |
| Andrew Puddephatt | Global Partners UK |
| Andrew Slack | Harry Potter Alliance |
| Angela Campbell | Institute for Public Representation |
| Ann Chaitovitz | Future of Music Coalition |
| Anne Elizabeth Moore | Author, Unmarketable |
| Anthony Advincula | New America Media |
| Anthony Marshall | Current TV |
| Anthony Riddle | WBAI-FM |
| Arianna Huffington | Huffington Post |
| Baratunde Thurston | Jack and Jill Politics |
| Barbara Popovic | Chicago Access Network Television |
| Becky Bond | CREDO Mobile / Working Assets |
| Ben Scott | Free Press |
| Beth McConnell | Media and Democracy Coalition |
| Betty Yu | Manhattan Neighborhood Network |
| Bill Moyers | Bill Moyers Journal |
| Bob Edgar | Common Cause |
| Bob McCannon | Action Coalition for Media Education |
| Brandon A. Benavides | KSTP-TV 5 |
| Bree Walker | KTLK-AM |
| Brian Garrido | City-As-School Manhattan |
| Brian Reich | EchoDitto |
| Bruce Dixon | Black Agenda Report |
| Bryan Calhoun | Label Management Systems |
| Byron Dorgan | U.S. Senator |
| Byron Hurt | Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes |
| C. Edwin Baker | University of Pennsylvania Law School |
| Camille Cyprian | Wellstone Action |
| Candace Clement | Free Press |
| Caroline Fredrickson | American Civil Liberties Union |
| Catherine Crier | Cajole Entertainment |
| Catherine Settanni | Digital Access, The Community Technology Empowerment Project |
| Cenk Uygur | The Young Turks |
| Chantz Erolin | Yo! The Movement |
| Cheryl Leanza | United Church of Christ, Office of Communication |
| Chris Murray | Consumers Union |
| Chris Parandian | Tin Can Communications |
| Chris Rabb | Afro-Netizen |
| Christopher Mitchell | Institute for Local Self-Reliance |
| Cliff Schecter | Author, The Real McCain |
| Coriell Wright | Institute for Public Representation |
| Corrine Yu | Leadership Conference on Civil Rights |
| Courtney Young | Chica Luna Productions |
| Craig Aaron | Free Press |
| Craig Newmark | craigslist |
| Cristen Perks | EchoDitto |
| D.J. Nikoles | |
| Daisy Hernández | ColorLines |
| Dan Gillmor | Arizona State University |
| Dan Rather | Dan Rather Reports |
| Davey D | Hard Knock Radio |
| David Cobb | Liberty Tree Foundation |
| David Schimke | Utne Reader |
| David Sirota | Author, The Uprising |
| Deanna Zandt | Hightower Lowdown/AlterNet |
| DeAnne Cuellar | Texas Media Empowerment Project |
| DeeDee Halleck | Independent filmmaker |
| Deepa Fernandes | WBAI-FM |
| Diane Farsetta | Center for Media and Democracy |
| Donald Anthonyson | Families for Freedom |
| Duncan Black | Eschaton / Media Matters for America |
| Edwin Okong'o | Mshale |
| Elizabeth Stark | Free Culture |
| Ellen Miller | Sunlight Foundation |
| Eloise-Rose Lee | Media Alliance |
| Eric Boehlert | Media Matters for America |
| Eric Deggans | St. Petersburg Times |
| Eric Klinenberg | New York University |
| Erica Swanson | Leadership Conference on Civil Rights |
| Estela Waksberg Guerrini | Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor (IDEC) |
| Federico Subervi | Texas State University |
| Frannie Wellings | Office of Sen. Byron Dorgan |
| Garlin Gilchrist II | TheSuperSpade.com |
| Gene Kimmelman | Consumers Union |
| Geoffrey Blackwell | Chickasaw Nation Industries Inc. |
| George Curry | Syndicated Columnist |
| George Stoney | New York University |
| Gina Cooper | Netroots Nation |
| Glen Ford | Black Agenda Report |
| Grace Lee Boggs | Detroit Summer |
| Greg Watkins | AllHipHop.com |
| Hannah Nemer | TVbyGIRLS |
| Hannah Sassaman | Prometheus Radio Project |
| Harold Feld | Media Access Project |
| Harry Haasch | Community Access Center |
| Hazel Trice Edney | National Newspaper Publishers Association |
| Hilary Goldstein | Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) |
| Hye-Jung Park | Funding Exchange |
| Inez González | National Hispanic Media Coalition |
| Ira Horowitz | Free Press |
| Isabel Macdonald | Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting |
| Isobel White | SPIN Project |
| Iván Román | National Association of Hispanic Journalists |
| J. Bennett Guess | United Church of Christ |
| Jamilah King | WireTap Magazine |
| Jane Hamsher | Firedoglake.com |
| Janine Jackson | Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) |
| Janis Lane-Ewart | KFAI-FM, Fresh Air Radio |
| Jared Ball | Morgan State University |
| Jeanette Foreman | WRFG Community Radio Atlanta |
| Jeanette Lee | Allied Media Conference |
| Jeanne Kohl-Welles | Washington State Senator |
| Jed Alpert | Mobile Commons |
| Jef Pearlman | Public Knowledge |
| Jeff Cohen | Park Center for Independent Media |
| Jefferson Morley | Center for Independent Media |
| Jeffrey Davis | Association of Public Television Stations |
| Jenifer Simpson | American Association of People with Disabilities |
| Jennifer Pozner | Women In Media & News (WIMN) |
| Jeremy Iggers | Twin Cities Media Alliance |
| Jessica Clark | Center for Social Media |
| Jessica Gonzalez | Institute for Public Representation |
| Jim Pagliarini | Twin Cities Public Television |
| Joel Kelsey | Consumers Union |
| Joel Kramer | MinnPost.com |
| John Dunbar | Associated Press |
| John Graves | Eidolon Communications |
| John Nichols | The Nation |
| John P. Strohm | Entertainment and intellectual property attorney |
| John Trasviña | MALDEF |
| Jonathan Adelstein | FCC Commissioner |
| Joseph Torres | Free Press |
| Josh Seidenfeld | SPIN Project |
| Josh Silver | Free Press |
| Josh Wolf | First Amendment Challenge |
| Joshua Breitbart | People's Production House |
| Josué Guillén | The Praxis Project |
| Juana Ponce de Leon | New York Community Media Alliance |
| Julie Chang Schulman | Hip Hop Congress |
| Julie Schwartz | Progressive States Network |
| Karen Toering | Reclaim the Media |
| Karlos Schmieder | Center for Media Justice |
| Kat Aaron | People's Production House |
| Kathy Magnuson | Minnesota Women's Press |
| Kathy Partridge | Interfaith Funders |
| Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Nation |
| Keith Ellison | U.S. House of Representatives |
| Keith Kamisugi | Equal Justice Society |
| Kenneth DeGraff | Office of Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) |
| Kim Freeman | American Rights at Work |
| Kim Gandy | National Organization for Women |
| Kristal Brent Zook | Hofstra University |
| Kwame Tsikata | Progressive Technology Project |
| Laura Flanders | Grit TV / Live from Main Street |
| Laura Washington | DePaul University |
| Laura Waterman Wittstock | Wittstock & Associates |
| Lauren-Glenn Davitian | CCTV Center for Media & Democracy |
| Lawrence Lessig | Stanford University Law School |
| Lennox Yearwood | Hip Hop Caucus |
| Leonard Baynes | St. John's University School of Law |
| Leonie Campbell-Williams | Asian American Justice Center |
| Libby Beaty | The National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors |
| Lillie Coney | Electronic Privacy Information Center |
| Linda Foley | The Newspaper Guild-CWA |
| Linda Jue | Chauncey Bailey Project / New Voices in Independent Journalism |
| Lizz Winstead | Shoot the Messenger |
| Loris Ann Taylor | Native Public Media |
| Louis Massiah | Scribe Media Center |
| Maia Ermita | Arts Engine |
| Mak Yin-ting | Hong Kong Journalists Association |
| Malia Lazu | The Gathering Project |
| Malkia Cyril | Center for Media Justice |
| Marcy Wheeler | Firedoglake.com |
| Mari Castañeda | University of Massachusetts |
| Maria Isa | emcee/singer/songwriter |
| Mariana Castañeda | Detroit Summer |
| Marilyn Mayo | Anti-Defamation League |
| Mario Duarte | La Prensa de Minnesota |
| Mark Kappelhoff | Department of Justice |
| Mark Lloyd | Leadership Conference on Civil Rights |
| Mark Potok | Southern Poverty Law Center |
| Marvin Ammori | Free Press |
| Matt Stoller | OpenLeft.com |
| Maura Corbett | Qorvis Communications |
| Medea Benjamin | Code Pink |
| Media Education Foundation | |
| Micah Sifry | Personal Democracy Forum |
| Michael Copps | FCC Commissioner |
| Michael Jacoby Brown | MICAH |
| Michael Skoler | Minnesota Public Radio / American Public Media |
| Michael Winship | Writers Guild of America, East |
| Mike Doyle | U.S. House of Representatives |
| Mike Rogers | BlogActive.com |
| Mike Smith | Fenton Communications |
| Monifa Akinwole Bandele | Change the Game |
| Mr. Spocko | Spocko's Brain |
| Nancy Doyle Brown | Twin Cities Media Alliance |
| Naomi Klein | Author, The Shock Doctrine |
| Nicholas Johnson | Former FCC Commissioner |
| Nick Coleman | Minneapolis StarTribune |
| Nick Penniman | American News Project |
| Nick Szuberla | Appalshop/Thousand Kites Project |
| Nissan Brown | KFAI Youth News Initiative |
| Norman Solomon | Institute for Public Accuracy |
| Parul Desai | Media Access Project |
| Patric M. Verrone | Writers Guild of America, West |
| Paul Schmelzer | Minnesota Monitor |
| Peter Gordon | Thirsty Ear Records |
| Phil Donahue | Executive Producer, Body of War |
| Presented by the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG Net) | |
| R.T. Rybak | Mayor of Minneapolis |
| Randall Pinkston | CBS News |
| Rashad Robinson | Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation |
| Richard Beach | University of Minnesota |
| Richard Healey | Grassroots Policy Project |
| Rob Richie | FairVote |
| Rob Williams | Action Coalition for Media Education |
| Robb Topolski | Internet consultant |
| Robert "Biko" Baker | League of Young Voters |
| Robert Greenwald | Brave New Films |
| Robert Millis | Hudson Street Media |
| Robert Pérez | Fenton Communications |
| Robert W. McChesney | Free Press |
| Roberto Lovato | New America Media |
| Robin Marty | Center for Independent Media |
| Romal J. Tune | Clergy Strategic Alliances |
| Romeo Ramirez | Coalition of Immokalee Workers |
| Ronald Gordon | ZGS Communications |
| Rosa A. Clemente | R.E.A.C.Hip Hop Coalition |
| Rosemary Okello-Orlale | African Women and Child Feature Service |
| Ruby Sinreich | OrangePolitics.org |
| Russell A. Newman | USC Anneberg School |
| Russell Roybal | Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training |
| Ryan Blethen | Seattle Times |
| Sakura Saunders | Prometheus Radio Project |
| Samantha Muilenburg | Reel Grrls |
| Santita Jackson | WVON-AM |
| Sarah Lutman | Minnesota Public Radio / American Public Media |
| Sascha Meinrath | New America Foundation |
| Scherazade Daruvalla King | Project Think Different |
| Scott Morris | Media Education Foundation |
| Shá Cage | MN Spoken Word Association |
| Shamako Noble | Hip Hop Congress |
| Shawn Chang | Free Press |
| Shireen Mitchell | Digital Sistas |
| Silvia Rivera | Radio Arte |
| Solange Bitol Hansen | Public Campaign |
| Sonali Kolhatkar | Uprising, Pacifica Radio |
| Stephen Bradberry | ACORN |
| Steve Macek | Chicago Media Action |
| Stevie Converse | Free Press |
| stic.man | dead prez |
| Sue Wilson | Broadcast Blues |
| Susan Crawford | OneWebDay |
| Susan Satter | Office of the Illinois Attorney General |
| Susannah Goodman | Common Cause |
| Tania Unzueta | Radio Arte |
| Tim Jones | Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| Tim Sparapani | American Civil Liberties Union |
| Tim Wu | Columbia Law School / Free Press |
| Timothy Karr | Free Press |
| Todd Wolfson | Media Mobilizing Project |
| Toki Wright | Yo! The Movement |
| Tracy Rosenberg | Media Alliance |
| Tracy Van Slyke | The Media Consortium |
| Van Jones | Ella Baker Center for Human Rights |
| Vic Rosenthal | Jewish Community Action |
| Vickie Evans-Nash | Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder |
| Wally Bowen | Moutain Area Information Network |
| Willie "J.R." Fleming | Hip Hop Congress |
| Yolanda Hippensteele | Free Press |
| Yunuen Rodriguez | Females United for Action |
| Zuag Kimberly Chang | Hmong Today |
