Stefania Pomponi Butler is a professional blogger/writer/editor/producer who covers parenting, politics, food, pop culture, and green issues with a cheeky twist. In addition to writing her personal blog, the popular, long-running parenting blog CityMama, Stefania is one of the Founding Editors of Kimchi Mamas (her culture and identity site) and a Founding Editor of MOMocrats.com (a progressive political blog). She spoke at BlogHer 07 on the subject of professional blogging and at Blogher Business 08 on pitching to bloggers of color. As a freelance writer, Stefania has published articles in the November 2007 and July 2008 issues of Good Housekeeping and the July 2008 issue of Redbook. Stefania also runs a successful freelance blog consulting business. CityMama, with over 3,000 RSS subscribers, is a Bloglines Parenting "QuickPick," and MOMocrats was one of the few political blogs to get a coveted credential to cover the DNC. In addition to the publications above, Stefania's work has appeared in various parenting magazines, in the New York Times, KoreAm Journal (twice), and on Pacific Time on NPR. Stefania lives in Silicon Valley.

Sheila Bernus Dowd blogs about the many different facets of her life (on 5 different blogs) including: being a Filipina mother, raising children in Silicon Valley, her volunteer work, politics and obsession with going to open houses on weekends. She has been featured as a parent expert on Graco's Ready for the Road Online Campaign and serves on Yahoo's Mother Board. She is the founder of Lookiloos.com, a home and garden voyeur site. She contributes to Silicon Valley Moms Blog, MOMocrats and Filipina Moms Blog. She blogs about all things mommy at xiaolinmama.com. When not blogging or eating, she is a writer, non profit fundraising consultant and event producer in real life.