Ms. Belaga currently serves on the Boards of CT Fund for the Environment/Save the Sound, National Audubon CT, and the Westport Public Library, and was Co-Chair of the CT League of Conservation and a co-founder of the CT League of Conservation Voters. A member of Governor Rell's L. I. Sound Liquefied Natural Gas Task Force, she also served as the Regional Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, appointed by President George H.W. Bush, and as a member of the Board of the Import-Export Bank, appointed by President Bill Clinton. Ms. Belaga was the Republican candidate for Governor in 1986, having represented Westport from 1976 to 1986 in the CT House of Representatives.

Ms. Chambers is Research Scholar in Law and Journalist in Residence at Yale Law School. She has been a reporter for the Associated Press and The New York Times and a columnist for The National Law Journal, and she is now editor of the on-line news site, the Branford Eagle. She is a former member of the Poynter Advisory Board at Yale.

Dr. Cibes was Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management under Governor Lowell Weicker (1991-1994) and Chancellor of the Connecticut State University System (1994-2006). While professor of government at Connecticut College (1969-1991), Cibes also served in the Connecticut General Assembly (1979-1991).

Attorney Geballe is the founding President of CT Voices for Children and now its Distinguished Senior Fellow. A former civil rights attorney and founding member of Yale's Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), she currently teaches at Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health. Her publications include Forgotten Children of the AIDS Epidemic (Yale University Press, 1995).

Attorney Twardy is a partner at the Day Pitney LLP law firm. He served as United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1985-1991) and Chief of Staff for Connecticut Governor Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. (1991-1993)

Mr. Vahidy is the founding member and former Executive Director of Public Allies CT (2004-2011). He currently serves on the board of CT Nonprofits, Youth Rights Media, Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, and UCONN’s Nonprofit Leadership Program. He’s the co-founding partner of Street Smart Ventures, LLC and currently serves as an Advisor to the Graustein Family Office.

Jeannette DeJesús, now special advisor to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on healthcare reform, was a founding member of the Board of Directors of The Connecticut News Project, publisher of The Connecticut Mirror. DeJesús, who has a degree in social work from New York University and a degree in public administration from Harvard, previously worked as vice president for strategic alliances at the Connecticut Hospital Association, a job she took in the fall of 2010. She spent eight years at the Hispanic Health Council, where she served as president and CEO. She also previously served as executive vice president of the National Conference for Community and Justice, and program coordinator at St. Vincent's Hospital's rape crisis program in New York.

Robert Hohler, executive director of the Melville Charitable Trust and a founding member of the Board of The Connecticut News Project, publisher of The Mirror, died on June 2, 2011 while hiking with his family in England. He was a civil rights activist who marched on Selma, Ala., with Martin Luther King, then helped produce an acclaimed television history of the movement, "Eyes on the Prize." As head of the Melville Charitable Trust, he led efforts to combat homelessness and shape public policy. He was the 2009 recipient of the national Grantmaker of the Year Award from the Council on Foundations. He has also headed a consulting company focused on enhancing the effectiveness of non-profits, and he wrote and produced twenty film, radio, and TV programs, among many other endeavors over his long career.