Egyptian Blogger and Human Rights Defender. I'm passionate about civil society and human rights. I am interested in so many things, but my main interests are health, gender and sexuality.

Author of Rebel with a Cause blog: www.rwac-egypt.blogspot.com

Editor of Global Voices in French, based in Paris, France, with my ear to the African ground. I tweet at @claireInParis

Graduate student in Latin American Spanish dialectology. Some of my interests include Indigenous languages of the Americas and language preservation. My area of focus is the Uto-Aztecan language family.

Current Director of Rising Voices. I have also worked as Regional Editor and Spanish Language Editor for Global Voices, as well as a volunteer author for Bolivia. I have been part of GV since 2005. I was part of a team that was awarded a Rising Voices microgrant in 2007 with Voces Bolivianas. Currently based in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Janet Feldman is founder/director of two HIV/AIDS-related nonprofits, one the international branch of a Kenyan HIV/AIDS and development organization, KAIPPG (http://www.kaippg.org) , and the other an international arts coalition called ActALIVE (http://www.actalive.org), whose 300 members in 30 countries use the arts and media to address HIV/AIDS and the MDGs.

She is an editor of the arts and development e-journal, art'ishake (http://www.art4development.net); Co-Founder and Advisory Board member of the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (http://www.gyca.org); and co-creator of PotoFanm+Fi (http://www.potofanm.org), an international solidarity movement in support of women and groups in Haiti.

Janet is the author of “Blogging Positively,” a guide to citizen media addressing issues related to HIV/AIDS (http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/guides).

She has a background in arts, history, and international relations, with special focus on international conflict-resolution; is a trained mediator; collage artist; and a social-change activist.

Jeremy Clarke is a PHP, HTML, CSS and WordPress hacker from Montreal. He is the developer and designer of Global Voices, which he loves so much. His blog is at SimianUprising.com. To learn more about how Global Voices was built and designed see our Design and Tech page.

Sociology student and lover of good stories and zines. I translate and write for Global Voices in Portuguese, and I'm based in Fortaleza, Brazil.

South Asian-Canadian, I am passionate about global health issues, especially as they relate to women. I've worked as a health reporter and editor for almost ten years, and have studied journalism and nutrition. I'm currently a freelance writer/editor and work as the Public Health Editor of Global Voices.

A journalist with an ongoing love affair with the Spanish language.

Rising Voices editor, radio features producer, sometimes photographer. Interests include tiny stories, bicycles, and confluences of aesthetics and politics. Tweets @zigzagrailroad

For a girl with a passion for words and language(s), it was only natural to fall in love with Africa. I am based in Nairobi (Kenya) where I spend much of my spare time exploring issues related to African languages in contemporary society.
When I am not sharing thoughts on my blog , I can be found translating for the French edition of Global Voices Online.

Maryna lives in Odessa, Ukraine. Her primary area of interests is Public health, human rights and the economy.

I am a trained Citizen Journalist, new media enthusiast and trainer.

Ramsey George is a founding member of 7iber.com where he works with online and offline communities around the Middle East to create spaces for critical conversations and community building. For Ramsey, new media is a powerful tool for bringing people together in order to positively contribute to society. Living in Amman, Jordan, Ramsey has a B.S. in rhetoric and communication and an M.S. in technical communication.

Rebekah is a Lawrence, Kansas native who currently lives in New York. She writes about technology, aid & development, East African public transit and anything else that strikes her fancy at Jackfruity. She also co-directs the Technology for Transparency Network.

I am from Dhaka, Bangladesh and I have been bridgeblogging the Bangladeshi and South Asian Blogosphere in Global Voices since 2005. Social Media is my passion. I like to follow the groundbreaking outreach projects of Rising Voices and write about them.

Based in Toronto, Romina has experience in online volunteering management, online strategies and social media. She has worked with Nabuur.com as their online communities manager and volunteer coordinator, and has contributed to the coordination of social media campaigns including 350.org, Amnesty International, and Social Action's Change the Web.

Portuguese Language Countries Editor for Global Voices Online

IT Engineer focused on web based projects and e-learning platforms. Worked as a teacher of IT in East Timor. That experience triggered a strong will to exclusively work on “stuff that really matter”: founded Moving Cause, aiming to promote social entrepreneurship initiatives.

Is mainly interested on New Media, Communication and Information Technologies for development, digital inclusion and social transformation.

For more info visit my blog [pt], follow me on twitter (@saritamoreira) and check my Linkedin profile.

I am a geo-spatial analyst and researcher in urban studies and New Media. I am interested in citizen cartography, the politics of urbanization in cities of the Global South, the politics of data, participatory development and urban ecology. I am also interested in social entrepreneurship in the field of New Media.

Regional Editor, Latin America

Uruguayan-Spanish journalist, editor, and blogger. Currently living in Chile, tweeting in English and Spanish under @silviavinas, and blogging here: silviavinas.com

I am the editor-in-second of Global Voices in French, and used to work in local civil service. Now retired, I'm free for my all-time passions : news, languages, plus everything Internet!

A Lebanese journalist who thanks to GV is discovering social media and technology tools little by little and falling in love it, esp when realizing the Miracles it can do, like in Rising Voices case:) Follow me @Thalloula or read me in Pinkishiyat