From left: Sally O'Brien, Puerto Rican former political prisoner Dr. Jose Solis Jordan, Puerto Rican activist Esperanza Martell

Sally O'Brien is a progressive journalist and media activist. Her journalistic career began in 1980 in the WBAI News Department. She has served as street reporter, Associate News Director, Interim Public Affairs Director, and Executive Producer of several programs at WBAI. She also designed and ran a News Department at WOMR-FM in Provincetown, Mass. She has written for The Nation (magazine), The Guardian, The City Sun, and The Advocate, among others. Currently an audio engineer with UN Radio, Sally also reports weekly to Associated Press "Special Edition" and Maryknoll Radio "Voices of Our World," and is currently working with the Peoples Video Network on a monthly cable program "Activist News." A longtime activist and organizer, Sally does media work on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal and other US political prisoners, the Jericho Movement and the Justice Committee of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights.

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Rosa Alicia Clemente is a Black Puerto Rican grassroots organizer, journalist, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Know Thy Self Speakers Bureau which has created two successful college/universities tours, Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win and the Speak Truth to Power tours and most recently has created the Hip Hop Skool for Social Justice. With an earned degree from the University of Albany and a Masters of Professional Studies form Cornell University she is committed to scholar-activism and youth organizing. Her work as an activist has taken her across the United States and internationally to colleges, universities, high schools and prisons. She has delivered lectures on topics such as African-American and Latino/a Intercultural Relations, Hip-Hop Activism, The History of the Young Lords Party, and Organizing to Free U.S. Political Prisoners. Rosa has written for Clamor Magazine, The Black World Today, The Final Call and has been the subject of articles in the Village Voice, The Amsterdam News, the New York Times and Red Eye Magazine. She has appeared on CNN, C-Span, Democracy Now, Street Soldiers, and National Public Radio(NPR). In 2001 she was a youth representative at the United Nations World Conference against Racism in South Africa and in 2002 was named by Red Eye Magazine as one of the top 50 Hip Hop Activists to look out for. Currently she is a co-host/co-producer WBAI's (99.5 FM/NYC) show Where We Live, was recently published in Third World Press, Role Call: A Generational Anthology, is a member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and the Black August Collective, and is the coordinator of the State of Black World Youth Caucus.

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