Jeffrey Berman's first spec script was purchased by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard at Imagine Films. Since then he has written scripts for Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures and The Walt Disney Studio, as well as several independent film companies. In the television market, Berman has written and sold several MOWs including The J.K Rowling bio-pic for NBC television and The Last Rainmaker for Hallmark. Recently, Berman co-founded UnitedHollywood.com and was producer/co-host of UnitedHollywood Live. He also created and hosts, The Write Environment, a compelling series of one-on-one interview with some of today's most prolific writers. He ran the Pencils for Media Moguls campaign during the strike; read more here http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/jeff-berman/

Erica Blitz, who often goes by the online handle ProgGrrl, is co-editor of the BATTLESTAR GALACTICA fansite Galactica Sitrep, and blogs about miscellaneous TV, film and pop culture at FanGrrl Magnet. She currently works in film marketing in New York City and has a background in both film and music marketing. For a closer look at how Sitrep covered the WGA strike from the fan perspective, check out the site's tagged posts here.

Susan Getgood is a marketing & social media consultant who is also a huge science fiction and fantasy fan, especially of the Whedonverse and Battlestar Galactica. Sites related to those fandoms was where she got much of her initial information about the strike, and formed the initial inspiration for the Writers Strike panels. She has been involved in online marketing since the early 90s, and watched the web evolve from the first browsers to the interactive communities we participate in today. Since 2004, her firm GetGood Strategic Marketing has been advising organizations of all shapes and sizes on integrated social media and marketing strategies that will help them meet their customers online, build their brands and drive revenue. Prior to that, Susan was a senior marketing executive at an Internet software company. She writes two blogs, Marketing Roadmaps and Snapshot Chronicles and contributes to a number of group blogs. In 2008, Susan was named a Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research .