About Meet the Bloggers

Meet the Bloggers is a live online video show created by Brave New Foundation which is broadcast online every Friday focusing on unconventional political opinion and analysis. Affiliate blogs include The Huffington Post, Think Progress, Alternet, Jack & Jill Politics and Of América. When not live, shows will be made available on-demand on meetthebloggers.org, as well as iTunes, and RSS Feeds. In addition to its web distribution, Meet The Bloggers will be televised on FreeSpeechTV and Link TV. Meet the crew behind the show.

Cenk Uygur is host of The Young Turks, the first ever live, daily web television talk show. The Young Turks have partnership deals with AOL, YouTube, Air America and Tidal TV on the web. The show is also carried 8-10AM EST on XM Satellite Radio on America Left, XM167.

Cenk Uygur is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School of Business and Columbia University Law School. He worked as a lawyer, television writer and television host before starting The Young Turks. Cenk also blogs on Huffington Post, Politico and AOL Newsbloggers.

Liliana Segura is a staff writer and associate editor at AlterNet.org, where she is in charge of Rights & Liberties and War on Iraq Special Coverage. In addition to AlterNet, she has written for The Nation and TheNation.com, among other publications, and previously worked as a program associate at The Nation Institute, focusing largely on Nation Books. Her areas of interest range from the American death penalty to Colombian politics, to anti-war organizing and activists of all stripes. She is on the board of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and a contributing writer to its newsletter, The New Abolitionist. She lives in Brooklyn.

· Watch Liliana explain how she became a blogger

Roberto Lovato is a New York-based contributing Associate Editor with New America Media and a frequent contributor to The Nation Magazine and the Huffington Post. He's also written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, Der Spiegel, Utne Magazine, La Opinion, and other national and international media outlets. On the electronic front, Roberto has produced programming for NPR, Pacifica and the Univision Television Network, where he helped develop and produce Hora Cero, one of that networks first documentary series about immigration in the United States. He's also the former Executive Director of CARECEN, which was the largest immigrant rights organization in the country. You can find him posting regularly on media, migration, politics and other issues at his blog.

· Watch Roberto explain how he became a blogger

Nico Pitney is National Editor at the Huffington Post. He was previously Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress and Managing Editor of ThinkProgress. He lives in Washington, DC, and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and NPR

· Watch Nico explain the value of Meet the Bloggers

Baratunde Thurston is conscious comic and vigilante pundit who has successfully merged his interests in technology, politics and comedy. He blogs at Jack & Jill Politics, the Huffington Post and his own site baratunde.com. He has authored three books, including Keep Jerry Falwell Away From My Oreo Cookies, was nominated for the Bill Hicks Award for Thought Provoking Comedy, declared a Champion of the First Amendment by Iowa State University, and called "someone I need to know" by Barack Obama.

Baratunde was an early member of Laughing Liberally, and his stage presence has earned him emcee duties at the National Conference for Media Reform, Netroots Nation and South by Southwest. He has been featured in various media outlets including NPR, the BBC, CNN, The Boston Globe, The Independent of London, The New York Times, C-SPAN and ComedyCentral.com. Baratunde speaks at colleges and conferences around the country and performs regularly in New York City, where he lives and works by day as an editor for The Onion.

· Watch Baratunde explain how he came to blog at Jack & Jill Politics

Faiz Shakir is the Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Editor-in-Chief of ThinkProgress.org and The Progress Report. He holds a B.A. degree in Government from Harvard University and a J.D. degree from the Georgetown Law Center. Faiz has previously worked as a Research Associate for the Democratic National Committee, as a Legislative Aide to Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, and as a communications aide in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. His writings have appeared in the Jerusalem Post, Florida Today, and Salon. Faiz has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and CNBC television, among other places, and has been a guest on many radio shows.

· Watch Faiz discuss blogging at ThinkProgress.org

Robert Greenwald is the president of Brave New Films and Brave New Foundation. BNF’s short, viral videos, such as Fox Attacks! Obama and The Real McCain series, have been viewed by tens of millions of people online and have moved hundreds of thousands to take action. Greenwald is also the director/producer of feature-length film documentaries including Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers and Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism.

James Spooner is most well known for his award winning documentary Afro-Punk. James also has a narrative feature currently on the festival circuit, White Lies Black Sheep and another script in the marketplace. There’s a lot of other stuff that might impress you but if you really were interested you would have googled him. You can read his blog at the5thdoor.com.

Mario was born in Los Angeles and comes to BNF following a long and distinguished career in television. A graduate of the University of Southern California, Mario received a BFA in Music Education and a BS in Electrical Engineering. He started his career in television production at ABC Television in 1980 as a video tape operator/editor. By 1983, he became the youngest director/technical director at ABC by starting his production career in local news. Having worked on more shows than he can remember, he took his first retirement in stride in 1995 with the intent of reconnecting with family and friends. After a year away from the glamour of hollywood, Mario returned to the bright lights of hollywood by signing up with KCAL channel 9. Adding to his list of skills, he became music director of both KCAL and KCBS. After 12 years at KCAL/KCBS Mario took his second retirement in November 2007, which leads us to now. After 5 winter and summer olympics, 8 emmy awards, countless car chases, earthquakes and fires, Mario comes to BNF to enjoy a life of luxury and relaxation. Drop him a line and say hi, don't forget to wipe your feet.

Pamela Ezell is a producer at Brave New Foundation. She has wanted to work for Robert Greenwald ever she saw Outfoxed. A few months ago, she 'friended' Robert on Facebook, noticed he was hiring at Brave New Foundation, and here she is. Go social networking. For several years, she was on the faculty at Chapman University, where she also earned an MFA. A consummate news junkie, a wannabe blogger, and a producer of public television programming, documentaries, and mobile media, Pamela is thrilled to be using every tool in the viral digital arsenal to further the cause of progressive politics. She also likes hummus.

Ofelia Yanez was born in Mexico City and raised in Dallas, TX. She attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts as a theatre student, and recently completed her Bachelor’s in Radio, Television, and Film at The University of North Texas. Her final student project was a short documentary on the Mega March (immigration) in Dallas. Ofelia moved to L.A. a year ago, and has recently established her production company, Oyla Productions which will aim to create art and music events, as well as films, a blog site, and other projects in which people can unite and create in a safe environment. She is currently a production assistant at Brave New Foundation's Meet The Bloggers and continues to educate herself to further develop her theatrical, writing, and producing skills.

Michael Rousselet is a graduate from the USC Screenwriting Program and a jack of all trades on set. He believes there is no such things as writer’s block only... uh...hmmm... hang on he'll think of something.

Julian Sakata is a singer/songwriter, father, husband, artist, producer, actor, writer. He is also the CG and Audio Supervisor at Brave New Studios as well as Graphics maverick, philosopher and neo-rationalistic short-distance diatribist.

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