Jason Alderman
Alderman is the Director of Financial Education for Visa, the world's largest payment card company. He runs the award winning Practical Money Skill for Life program which helps children and adults learn the fundamentals of saving, budgeting, credit and personal finance. Alderman gives high energy interviews and can speak knowledgably on a broad array of personal finance and consumer issues. Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin is a well-known U.S. political activist. The Los Angeles Times has described her as "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement," and in 1999, San Francisco Magazine included her on their "power list" of the "60 Players Who Rule the Bay Area." Andrea Coombes

Michael J. Cuggino
Cuggino is the president and portfolio manager of Permanent Portfolio Family of Funds. Also a frequent contributor to national media outlets, such as CNBC, Bloomberg, and MarketWatch. Ben Davis

J. Bradford DeLong
J. Bradford DeLong is a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, chair of its political economy major, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and was in the Clinton administration a deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. Antonia Juhasz
Antonia Juhasz is a policy-analyst, author and activist living in San Francisco. She is also author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time. Juhasz is an expert on all aspects of international trade and finance policy with a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University, experience as a Legislative Assistant to two United States Members of Congress, and over ten years of work in the field. She is a passionate writer and speaker who conveys complex information in a manner that is both accessible and motivational to others. Rich Karlgaard
Rich Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes, the nation’s highest-circulation business publication, and editor of Forbes ASAP, a magazine covering the major developments, trends and implications of the Information Age. Leo Lacayo
Leo Lacayo is the most prominent Republican media surrogate in Northern California with hundreds of television and radio interviews to his credit. Chris Lahiji
Chris Lahiji is the youngest Mutual Fund Manager in U.S. history. He has also lent his financial expertise to numerous TV networks (CNN, Fox, etc.) and financial publications (Investors Buisness Daily, Forbes.com, etc.). Preston Martin
Mr. Martin was Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He is widely published and is noted as an incisive observer of economic trends and policies. Tara Nicholle Nelson

Harley Shaiken

Chuck Siegel

Art Torres
Arthur "Art" Torres is the current Chairman of the California Democratic Party, a position he has held since 1995, and is the first Latino in the California Democratic Party to have been nominated for statewide office when he won the Democratic primary for insurance commissioner in 1994. Joan Walsh
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