Morley Winograd is the executive director of the Institute for Communication Technology Management (CTM) at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He is also the president and CEO of Morwin, Inc., a government reform consulting company. He served as senior policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore and director of the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (NPR) from December 1, 1997 until January 20, 2001. He is co-author of Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics (Rutgers University Press, 2008) and Taking Control: Politics in the Information Age. His lectures on the topic of technology's reshaping of America have won wide praise in forums as diverse as the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, Los Angeles' Town Hall, Harvard's JFK School of Government, and Bologna University's John Hopkins School of International Affairs.
Michael Hais served for a decade as Vice President, Entertainment Research and for more than 22 years overall at Frank N. Magid Associates where he conducted audience research for hundreds of television stations, cable channels, and program producers in nearly all 50 states and more than a dozen foreign countries. Prior to joining Magid in 1983, he was a political pollster for Democrats in Michigan and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Detroit. He received a B.A. from the University of Iowa, an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, all in political science. He is the co-author of Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics (Rutgers University Press, 2008).
Jon Schnur works with the New Leaders for New Schools' team and community to accomplish its mission- driving high levels of learning and achievement for every child by attracting, preparing, and supporting the next generation of outstanding principals for our nation's urban schools. Since co-founding New Leaders for New Schools, he has led the development of the organization's strategy, management team and board, core values, partnerships, and fundraising. Jon has served as Special Assistant to Secretary of Education Richard Riley, President Clinton's White House Associate Director for Educational Policy, and Senior Advisor on Education to Vice President Gore. He has developed national educational policies on teacher and principal quality, after-school programs, district reform, charter schools, and preschools. Jon graduated from Princeton University and a Wisconsin public high school.
Alicia Menendez currently works as the Political Outreach Manager for Rock the Vote, a nonprofit organization dedicated to getting young adults age 18-29 to register to vote. In addition to working on other jobs in politics and on campaigns, she is also the daughter of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (NJ). Menendez attended Harvard College, where she served as the president of The Bee, Harvard's oldest women's social club. Menendez was a recipient of the Harvard College Research Program grant for her work on trends in teenage sexual behavior, as well as a recipient of the Carol P. Pfhorzheimer Fellowship for research on the women of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. Menendez's senior honors thesis, which used ethnographic research to explore the interplay of gendered ownership of space and women's social capital, drew the attention of reporters from US News and World Reports, The New York Times, The Yale Daily News and The Harvard Crimson, which named Menendez one of the fifteen most interesting members of the class of 2005. In 2007, Menendez worked as a political television booker, segment producer and on-air creative talent at Regional News Network in New York. That same year, she received the Garden State Equality Voice for Justice award for her advocacy on behalf NJ's LGBT community.
