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Zerlina Maxwell is the Senior Director of Progressive Programming for SiriusXM. She is the host of “Mornings w/ Zerlina.” on SiriusXM Channel 127 and hosted “Zerlina.” on MSNBC on PeacockTV for 2 seasons. She is also the author of the book The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide (Hatchette, July 2020). She was an MSNBC Political Analyst for a decade. She has worked on 2 presidential campaigns: Obama 2008 and Hillary 2016. Zerlina is a keynote speaker and writer. She’s written for numerous national publications. Her writing focuses on national politics, candidates, and specific policy and culture issues including race, feminism, domestic violence, sexual assault, victim blaming and gender inequality. She has a law degree from Rutgers Law School–Newark and a B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University.

National morning drive talk radio star Stephanie Miller is a wildly popular performer with a huge and fervently devoted audience. Stephanie was featured in LA Weekly as “The Voice of The Resistance.” Director and activist Rob Reiner says of Miller, “There’s no bulls***. She doesn't mince words and she doesn’t throw out lies.” MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow declared on her show that Miller is “the high priestess of excellent liberal talk.” Comedy legend Carol Burnett declared that Miller is “the Carol Burnett of radio.”

Talkers Magazine has ranked Thom Hartmann as the #1 progressive talk show host in America (#8 overall) for more than a decade. His show airs live nationwide on SiriusXM daily M–F, 12 pm–3 pm ET. He’s also a four-time Project Censored-award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of more than 30 books in print in 17 languages. Hartmann has co-written and been featured in six climate-related documentaries with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, about the end of the age of oil and climate change, is an international bestseller and used as a textbook in many schools and colleges. A former psychotherapist and entrepreneur, Hartmann and his wife Louise live in Portland, Oregon with a small menagerie of cats, dogs, ducks, and geese.

Michelangelo Signorile is an author, journalist and commentator, and writes a popular newsletter, The Signorile Report (signorile.substack.com). He is the host of The Michelangelo Signorile Show. Signorile has been profiled by CBS’ 60 Minutes, and has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, and other shows. He has also appeared in many film and television documentaries.

Dean Obeidallah is the host of SiriusXM radio’s daily program The Dean Obeidallah Show, making him the first Muslim American to host a national radio show. A lawyer turned writer and award-winning comedian, Obeidallah has been using his skills to both entertain and educate people for years. He writes regularly for CNN.com’s opinion page, The Daily Beast, and Salon.com. He has also written articles for various other publications, including The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and NBCNews.com, as well as appearing on everything from ABC’s Good Morning America to Comedy Central. He is frequently on CNN and MSNBC.

John Fugelsang has been murdered on CSI and picketed by Westboro Baptist Church; he once interviewed George Harrison and Mitt Romney in different continents in the same week; he’s played for the troops overseas, including the humanitarian mission to Haiti; and has been a regular on MSNBC, CNN, and FOX. Fugelang is the child of an ex-nun and ex-Franciscan brother. His off-Broadway solo show Guilt: A Love Story was nominated for the Drama League’s Distinguished Performance award. His PBS film Dream On won the NY Independent Film Festival award for Best Documentary, and he’s even in Coyote Ugly.

Dylan Douglas is the new voice in Gen-Z politics. Dylan dove into politics at an early age, focused as a teenager on cross-partisan non profits and grassroots political campaigns, at a local and national level. Dylan worked as deputy campaign manager for a high profile congressional campaign, and is involved in his community championing the cause of a new generation. Every week on Young American, Dylan will bring you a uniquely young perspective to the stories that will define a generation!