Kevin Featherly is a former managing editor with Washington Post Newsweek Interactive and former news editor for McGraw-Hill's Healthcare Informatics. He is a journalist and consultant who has most often worked in the arenas of public policy and healthcare information technology. He has published hundreds of news stories, features, essays and white papers on a broad array of subjects, from crime to capital investments. Publications include Editor and Publisher, Online Journalism Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonpost.com, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Monthly, Utne Reader, City Pages, CNNfn.com, USAToday.com and Minnesota Law and Politics, and many others. In 2000, he served as media coordinator to the Markle Foundation's Web, White and Blue presidential debates; his other consulting work has involved writing and producing manuscripts, white papers, CD-ROMs and broadcast scripts. He is a capable public speaker. Kevin taught the University of Minnesota's first-ever online journalism course in 1999, and has authored or contributed to five books: "Guide to Building a Newsroom Website" (1998), "The Wired Journalist" (1999), "Elements of Language" (2001), "Pop Music and the Press" (2002) and "Encyclopedia of New Media" (2003). He was a public policy fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute in 2004-05.

Two-time Fulbright Scholar Frank Jossi has more than two decades of experience as a writer, editor and educator for publications, corporations and educational institutions. As a journalist, he has worked as a staff writer for newspapers in Savannah, Ga., and in suburban Washington, D.C., and has published award-winning articles in Wired, The Fedgazette, Twin Cities Business Monthly, Minnesota Technology, Hemispheres, The Rake, Healthcare Informatics, Healthplan, Business and Health, Mpls/StPaul, QSR, Wired News, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The St. Paul Pioneer Press, The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, Architecture Minnesota, Planning and dozens of other publications. As a writer of press materials, speeches and white papers, Frank has worked closely with clients such as Amcom Software, Inc.; Ameregis; Fairfax County, Va.; the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management; Agiliti, Inc.; and Net Perceptions. As an educator, he served as program director of the World Press Institute at Macalester College for three years and taught journalism in Pakistan (1988-89) and Albania (1993). He currently is a policy fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute.