Ophira Edut is a writer, editor, designer and social entrepreneur who has spent a decade creating independent media projects for young women of all cultures and sizes. A contributor to numerous magazines and anthologies, Ophira lectures nationwide about body image, media, and culture. Ophira is the co-owner of Mediarology, a media consulting and creative services company based in New York City. In 1992, she founded the national, multicultural young women's magazine HUES (Hear Us Emerging Sisters), an award-winning national young women's magazine that was published until 1999.

Ophira edited the anthology Body Outlaws: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity (Seal Press; Foreword by Rebecca Walker). Now required curriculum at colleges nationwide, the book has been adapted into a stageplay and republished in Greek and Chinese. Ophira and her twin sister Tali also write horoscopes for 35 million women a month through various media (Oxygen.com, Brides.com) and their own website Astrostyle.com. They have read charts for celebrity clients including Stevie Wonder, Beyonce and Avril Lavigne.

Pia Guerrero is a writer and consultant with over 20 years of experience working in the non-profit sector. She has designed and delivered media literacy presentations and workshops around the country—directly teaching over 400 teachers, youth workers, and young people.

Pia authored Work of the Mind: A Media Studies Curricula for Upper Elementary Age Youth. This curricula was commissioned by the Department of Education and addresses not only the core concepts of media literacy, but also the visual and performing arts standards, and the California standards for language arts and social studies.

As a volunteer and board member of Girls Figure In (a project of the San Francisco NOW educational fund), Pia has led a number of workshops on the effects of media and body image in young people. The goal of this project was to raise awareness around young people’s over-identification with rigidly defined gender roles as they are portrayed in the media—a major cause of low self-esteem and consequently negative health and educational outcomes in girls and boys.

Pia’s curriculum around body image appears in Body Outlaws: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity (Seal Press, 2004). Pia is a graduate of the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership and is a youth media delegate with the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC).

Pia is Mexican and American, and splits her time between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Anu Athanikar is a contributing editor for Adiosbarbie.com and a freelance editor/writer. Her experience includes editing for Tikkun, the renowned national progressive publication, where she worked with prominent authors to develop articles on such diverse topics as American and international politics, social justice activism, progressive spirituality, and film and book reviews. In 2006, during the time that Anu was Tikkun’s Assistant Editor, the Utne Reader awarded Tikkun its 2006 Independent Press Award for Best Spiritual Coverage.

Anu currently works with small non-profits to advance their communication and funding efforts. She is passionate about using her expertise to facilitate progressive social change.

Jennifer Berger is the Executive Director of About-Face, an organization based in San Francisco that equips women and girls with tools to understand and resist harmful media messages that affect self-esteem and body image. You can read her essay "Intimate Enemies," about her experience with food allergies and body image, in Body Outlaws: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity (Seal Press, 2004).