Jason Oberholtzer is a content creator, producer, and strategist whose writing, charts, GIFs, and blogs appear all over the web and in print. His clients include Forbes, IBM, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the Economist. He founded the blog I Love Charts in 2009, which with over 500,000 followers remains one of Tumblr’s most influential blogs. Through I Love Charts, he frequently collaborates with well-known bloggers and artists, and occasionally, when he’s feeling especially civic-minded, the White House. I Love Charts: The Book was published in 2012 by Sourcebooks.

Jessica Hagy is an artist and writer best known for her Webby award–winning blog, Indexed (ThisIsIndexed.com). A fixture in the creative online space, Jessica has been illustrating, consulting, and speaking to international media and at events since 2006. She is the author of The Art of War Visualized and How to Be Interesting, both from Workman. Her work has been described as “deceptively simple,” “undeniably brilliant,” and “our favorite reason for the Internet to exist.” Her commissioned work frequently appears in various web formats, galleries, books, magazines, newspapers, television outlets, and advertising campaigns.

Nick Douglas is a comedy writer in New York City. He is the former editor of the blogs Valleywag, Urlesque, and Slacktory. Reach him at Nick@toomuchnick.com. He’ll happily watch the first thirty seconds of your comedy video.

Ben Grelle (aka The Frogman) is an Internet comedian, writer, photographer, and graphic artist. He runs the popular TheFrogMan.me, where he creates original content and webcomics, and posts the best stuff from around the web. He is secretly controlled by a corgi named Otis.

Adrian Sanders is the cofounder of Beacon, a service that helps journalists raise funds to tell important stories. He lives and works in Oakland, CA. Previously he helped create Backspac.es, a mobile photo-storytelling app, and VM Associates, an integration consulting firm in New York City.

Farah Khalid is a film editor, writer, traveler, and dog lover. As an editor, she travels the world and works with some of the music industry’s living legends. Her personal essays have been published in numerous magazines. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, and is currently working on her first novel.

Mike Rugnetta is a Brooklyn-based composer, programmer, and performer. He is a founding member of the live, lecture-based performance art trio MemeFactory, which makes fast-paced performances about the increasingly misnamed phenomenon of “Internet Culture.” He is also the writer and host of Reasonably Sound, a podcast distributed by the Infinite Guest Network from American Public Media about the science, culture, and theory of audio and music; and Idea Channel, a YouTube series where critical and philosophical concepts are applied to things in the popular culture canon. Idea Channel is produced by PBS Digital Studios.

Emma Koenig is the creator of F*ck! I’m in My Twenties, an illustrated Tumblr which spawned a book, a guided journal, and a TV version developed at NBC. Her viral video “Speed Dating” has almost 2 million views. She was a humorist for the Times UK, and most recently, a staff writer for Manhattan Love Story on ABC.

Asha Dornfest is a writer, blogger, and founder of Parent Hacks. Parent Hacks was one of Real Simple’s three choices for “best parenting and family blog,” a Daily Beast “Beast Best” award winner, and three-time recipient of Babble’s “#1 Most Useful” Top Mom Blog honor. She’s the author of Parent Hacks and the coauthor of Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, son, and daughter.

Kelsey Hanson is the founder and creative director of Vocal Creative. Formerly a designer in Starbucks Global Creative Studio, she has worked with award-winning brands and agencies across the world. Habitual line-stepper, accomplished gin drinker, and mom of two, her work has been featured in GDUSA, CA, the Hello Poster Show, and the Seattle Show.

Mónica Guzmán is a Sunday columnist for the Seattle Times and a weekly columnist for GeekWire, covering issues in digital life. She emcees Ignite Seattle, a popular grab bag and community-fueled speaker series, serves on the National Advisory Board of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, and in 2012 joined the Seattle hub of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community. A juror for the 2014 Pulitzer Prizes, Mónica contributed the closing chapter “Community As an End” to the 2013 book The New Ethics of Journalism: Principles for the 21st Century and is vice-chair of the SPJ Ethics Committee. She was recently named a Neiman Fellow at Harvard.

Thomas Leveritt is an oil painter who specializes in portraits; he wrote a novel called The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money, which got sucked into the film industry, and then so did he; he pioneered the use of ultraviolet-wavelength video in his film How the Sun Sees You, and continues to experiment with new forms of imaging both digital and analogue. He lives in New York.

Casey Bowers is a copywriter and journalist living in Lancaster, Ohio. His beats include music, film, tech, travel, and modern dadding. He writes for Flush Magazine, DiscoSalt, and various and sundry brands and publications.

Josephine Decker is an American actor, filmmaker, and performance artist. Recently named one of Filmmaker magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, Josephine premiered her first two narrative features, Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, at the Berlinale Forum 2014 and theatrically in NYC.

Donna Salgado is a New York City–based dance artist specializing in performance, choreography, and teaching. She is the founder of CONTINUUM Contemporary/Ballet, a dance company creating work in the concert dance spectrum, while celebrating a spirit of dance making that is inspiring, collaborative, and progressive. She holds an MFA in Dance Performance, performed professionally with several dance companies, commissioned over ten choreographers, created twenty original ballets, is an active faculty member of three major dance institutions in NYC, co-wrote the children’s book Crafterina with her sister, and has collaborated with composers, fashion designers, visual artists, a hair guru, and a pop star.

Alex Pearlman is a digital journalist and writer based in London, and a leading commenter on free speech issues and Internet rights. After founding a startup online magazine in college, Alex worked as a product manager and digital editor at the Boston Globe. Her work has appeared in the Globe, Boston.com, Slate magazine, GlobalPost, The Huffington Post, and Lemon magazine.

Dante Shepherd (the pseudonym of Dr. Lucas Landherr) holds a PhD in chemical engineering from Cornell University and is currently a professor at Northeastern University in Boston doing engineering education research for K-12 classrooms. His perspectives on living to the age of ninety-six have been shared with Surviving the World since May 2008.

Brad O’Farrell has been hustling around the startup industry since 2007. He’s worked for companies like Cheezburger, TurntableFN, and YouTube. In 2009 he made the viral video Play Him Off Keyboard Cat, and in 2013, he crowdfunded a game called Story War that raised $360,000 in thirty days. He is currently developing a crowdfunding service for Reddit Inc.

Jess Kimball Leslie is a trendspotter and a writer. Her work has been featured in the Hairpin, TechCrunch, the Awl, the Atlantic, and many more places. She lives in New York City with her wife and son.

Meredith Haggerty is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing can be seen on sites like the Hairpin, Fast Company, Vulture, Matter, and the Daily Dot. She most recently hosted TLDR, a podcast about the Internet from WNYC’s On the Media.

Alex Larsen lives in Toronto, where he currently works as a game designer. His alter ego Kid Twist is an internationally renowned battle rapper with more than five million views on YouTube.

Nancy Zastudil is a curator, writer, and administrator dedicated to social progress through philanthropy and entrepreneurship in the arts. She is currently administrative director of the Frederick Hammersley Foundation, coadministrator of The Lightning Field, and monthly visual arts contributor to Arts and Culture Texas. Her most recent endeavors include Pacific Exhibits, a storefront window micro-gallery, and Show Up Show Down, a quick-response mechanism for staging world-changing art through brief photography exhibitions of artist projects that incorporate the built environment, coinciding visiting artist presentations, and an ever-growing publicly accessible archive. In late 2014, she opened Central Features, a contemporary art venue in downtown Albuquerque. Nancy also sits on the board of Downtown Albuquerque Arts & Cultural District and is the regional coordinator for The Feminist Art Project.

Le LeFever is the founder and creative director of Common Craft and the author of The Art of Explanation. He is the son of a goldfish farmer and the husband of Sachi LeFever, who is his partner in crime at Common Craft. They live and work in Seattle.

Jeff Wysaki is a humor writer, comic artist, and blogger based in Los Angeles. He runs the popular website Pleated-Jeans.com. Stuff he makes is routinely featured on the front page of Reddit, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, and more, MORE (much MORE!).

Zach Weinersmith is best known for his comic strip Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and for creating the Festival of Bad Ad hoc Hypotheses. He lives in Texas with his wife Kelly and daughter Ada.