About the Authors

Joan Blades is co-founder of MoveOn.org and Berkeley Systems with her husband, Wes Boyd. She is also co-founder, and President of, MomsRising.org.

She is on the steering committee of "Reuniting America: A Transpartisan Campaign of Political Reconciliation" (ReunitingAmerica.org), a group engaging people from diverse political points of view in respectful dialogue that leads to creative, breakthrough solutions to the challenges facing our nation.

Joan is the author of Mediate Your Divorce, and is also an organizer of and a contributor to MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country: How to Find Your Political Voice and Be a Catalyst for Change. She lives in northern California with her husband and two children.

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner is an author, freelance journalist, and consultant in the field of environmental policy and political strategy. She is the Executive Director of MomsRising.org.

Kristin is also the author of the award winning book, The F-Word: Feminism in Jeopardy--Women, Politics, and the Future, and writes frequently about public policy and women's issues.

She lives in Washington State with her husband and two children.