Jane Hamsher

is the founder of firedoglake.com. Her work has also appeared on the Huffington Post, Alternet and The American Prospect. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC and PBS and is the author of the best selling book Killer Instinct. She has produced such films Natural Born Killers and Permanent Midnight and currently lives in Washington, D.C.

Email: firedoglake AT gmail DOT com.

Christy Hardin Smith

is a former attorney, who earned her undergraduate degree at Smith College, in American Studies and Government, concentrating in American Foreign Policy. She then went on to graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania in the field of political science and international relations/security studies, before attending law school at the College of Law at West Virginia University, where she was Associate Editor of the Law Review. Christy was a partner in her own firm for several years, where she practiced in a number of areas including criminal defense, child abuse and neglect representation, domestic law, civil litigation, and she was an attorney for a small municipality, before switching hats to become a state prosecutor. Christy has extensive trial experience, and has worked for years both in and out of the court system to improve the lives of at risk children.

Email: reddhedd AT firedoglake DOT com

Pachacutec

did not, as is commonly believed, die in 1471. To escape the sight of his successors screwing up the Inca Empire he’d built, he fled east into the rain forest, where he began chewing funky roots to get high. Oddly, these roots gave him both a killer buzz and preserved his life. He's learned a thing or two in the last five hundred years, such as the importance of not letting morons run a country, having watched the Inca Empire get totally screwed by its ruling military and religious classes. Accordingly, Pachacutec now works during fleeting sober moments to build a vibrant progressive movement, hoping to drive a pointed stake through the heart of American “conservatism” forever. He enjoys a gay marriage committed but legally oppressed partnership, classic jazz and rooting for the New York Mets.

Email: pachacutec AT firedoglake DOT com

Siun (Press Secretary)

Siun is a proud Hyde Park resident who shares her home with three cats, one pitbull and a hiphop daughter – and she has a Burner poet son in Austin. She’s worked in media relations and on the net since before the www, thinks press releases can be works of art, and knows what a mult box is thanks to Nico. When not swimming in the Lake, she leads a consulting team working on corporate responsibility communications.

Please direct all media inquiries to her at: media DOT firedoglake AT gmail DOT com