KGB Bar

Jill Filipovic is a New York-based attorney and writer. She is the executive editor of Feministe (http://feministe.us) and the reproductive justice and gender editor at AlterNet (www.alternet.org). Jill also blogs at the Huffington Post and Ms. JD. She holds a BA and a JD from New York University.

Brad Perry worked for several years as the male outreach coordinator at James Madison University’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention before coming to the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance in 2000. In the position of sexual violence prevention coordinator, he provides training and technical assistance to local sexual violence-prevention initiatives throughout Virginia. Since 2004, Brad has consulted with the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control to improve its national Rape Prevention and Education grant system. Brad is also the editor of the “Moving Upstream” newsletter, and has co-authored articles for The Prevention Researcher, Violence Against Women (Sage Publications), and XYonline. In his spare time, Brad plays drums in a touring indie-rock band and spends time with friends in beautiful downtown Charlottesville, Virginia.

Samhita Mukhopadhyay is a thirty-year-old writer, organizer, and geek living in San Francisco. She is the training and technology coordinator at the Center for Media Justice, a grassroots non-profit that defends the communications rights of disenfranchised communities. She has been a writer at Feministing.com for three years, and her work has appeared in The Nation, The American Prospect, WireTap magazine, ColorLines, and Bitch. She has a BA in women’s studies and sociology from SUNY Albany and an MA in women’s studies from San Francisco State University.

Anastasia Higginbotham is an artist and mother who moonlights as a self-defense instructor. She earns her living drafting speeches and content for the annual galas of social justice organizations. She lives with her partner and their son in Brooklyn.

Thomas MacAulay Millar is the pen name of a New York-area litigator active for several years in online communities, including Feministing.com. In real life he is a spouse, a parent, a voter, and a Scottish American, not necessarily in that order. 

Jaclyn Friedman is a queer Jewish writer, performer, and activist. In her work as the program director for the Center for New Words, she produces fifty-plus events per year, including author discussions, writing workshops, open mics, political discussions, music concerts, book groups, and special events. She is cofounder and cochair of WAM!, CNW’s conference on Women, Action & the Media. Friedman’s work has been published in many outlets, including Bitch, AlterNet, Women’s eNews, and PW.org. She performs and agitates with Big Moves, a national size-diverse dance and performance troupe. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College.

Jessica Valenti is the founder of Feministing.com and the author of Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters and He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut . . . and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, Ms., the Guardian (U.K.), and Bitch, and on Salon.com. In 2007, she received a Choice USA Generation award for her commitment to reproductive rights issues and was named one of ELLE magazine’s IntELLEgentsia. She lives in Queens with her cat, boyfriend, and dog (acquired in that order).