Robyn Thomas is currently serving in her seventh year as the Executive Director of the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. A national non-profit organization founded by attorneys, the Law Center is focused on providing comprehensive legal research and expertise in support of smart gun laws that save lives.

Prior to her work with the Law Center, Robyn served as the Executive Director of the Tikkun Community and Tikkun Magazine and practiced law at Lord Bissell & Brook and Milberg Weiss Bershad & Shulman in New York.

Robert Hernandez, one of the few true veterans of Web journalism, has made a name for himself as a journalist of the Web, not just on the Web. His primary focus is exploring and developing the intersection of technology and journalism – to empower people, inform reporting and storytelling, engage community, improve distribution and, whenever possible, enhance revenue. He describes himself as a mad scientist of journalism.

He believes in “open source,” sharing knowledge and experiences among journalists.

Jillian C. York is Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Her work focuses on free expression, with an focus toward the Arab world, and as such she has written for a variety of publications, including Al Jazeera, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and CNN.

Thomas P. Mauriello is an educator, author, consultant and public speaker, with over 40 years of experience in the law enforcement, forensic sciences and counterintelligence fields. He is founder and CEO of ForensIQ, Inc. and a retired Special Agent with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and a former police officer.

His concurrent academic career includes teaching and managing the Crime Laboratory for the University of Maryland at College Park. During the past 35 years on the faculty, he has been teaching courses in criminal justice and forensic sciences.

Alexandra Zayas won the 2013 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Journalism for her three-part series “In God’s Name,” which exposed abuse at unlicensed religious group homes. She is a reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, writing enterprise stories out of Tampa. She has covered state courts, breaking news and neighborhoods. She is drawn to stories requiring intimate access. Her favorite ones have immersed her in the worlds of self-proclaimed vampires, war-scarred veterans, and players on both sides of the law.

Angie Drobnic Holan is deputy editor of PolitiFact and the editor of PolitiFact Florida. She previously was a reporter and researcher and was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 2008 election. She has been with the Tampa Bay Times since 2005.

Patti has been with 9NEWS/KUSA for more than 30 years. She began her career as a studio camera operator in 1978 at KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City. She was promoted to noon, 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. producer until she left KOCO for a producing position at KDFW-TV in Dallas, Texas. While there, Dennis produced a myriad of newscasts and special projects.

She was hired in Denver at 9NEWS in 1981 as the weekend producer and then produced newscasts in various time periods.

Tim Burke has served as Video/Assignment Editor at Deadspin since October 2011. In addition to managing the site’s media entities he has led major investigative stories including the Manti Te’o/Lennay Kekua hoax and NBC’s exclusion of a memorial tribute from its 2012 Summer Games broadcast. He previously served in the same role at SportsGrid after spending ten years in higher education where he taught communication courses and completed doctoral coursework at the University of South Florida.

Daniel Gulati is an author at Harvard Business Review. His best-selling book “Passion & Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders” was selected to the JP Morgan 13th Annual Summer Reading List as a top 10 non-fiction work of 2012. His acclaimed Harvard Business Review articles on careers and digital culture reach millions of readers globally.

Prior to this, Daniel was the Founding CEO of FashionStake, a fashion e-commerce company acquired by Fab.com in 2012. He holds an MBA from Harvard, where he received the Robert F.