Stan Yogi is the coauthor of Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California and the coeditor of Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley. He worked for the ACLU of Northern California.

Elaine Elinson is coauthor of Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California, winner of a Gold Medal in the California Book Awards. She researches and writes civil rights history for the National Park Service.

Steve Swatt, coauthor of Game Changers: Twelve Elections That Transformed California, is a veteran political analyst and a former California wire service, newspaper, and broadcast reporter who specialized in politics and public policy during a twenty-five year journalism career.

Susie Swatt, coauthor of Game Changers: Twelve Elections That Changed California, is a member of the National Advisory Council at UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies. Her career in the legislature and elsewhere in state government spans nearly forty years in key public policy roles.

Jean Melesaine, a Samoan American doc writer-photographer based out of Oakland, CA has worked with Silicon Valley De-Bug for over ten years. Along with Raj Jayadev, she recently coedited the book De-Bug: Voices from the Underside of Silicon Valley.