Craig Brown is Executive Director of Common Dreams. Together with his late wife, Lina Newhouser, Brown founded Common Dreams in 1997. A life-long activist, community organizer and political consultant. Brown has managed many state, local, Congressional and US Senate campaigns over the past 30 years. He has managed and worked for many progressive organizations and referendum campaigns. Brown managed the Congressional campaigns of former US Rep. Tom Andrews of Maine. Brown then served as Chief-of-Staff to Congressman Andrews in Washington for Andrews' two-terms in the US House. In 1991, Andrews co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus. In 1994, Congressional Quarterly rated Andrews as the most progressive member of Congress - a designation he was proud of. Andrews currently leads the Win Without War coalition. Brown provides the vision for Common Dreams and directs the editorial content and business operations. He lives on the coast of Maine with his teenage daughters, Chloe & Moriah, and his golden retriever, Jackson Brown. Follow Craig on Facebook here or on Twitter here.  Email to editor@commondreams.org

Jon Queally is Editor for Common Dreams. A Maine native, he's come back to his home state after years away. After working in the arts and teaching fields, he is proud to bring his passion for social justice, education and media activism to Common Dreams. Having traveled extensively internationally and across the United States, he finds inspiration in the determination, wisdom and good deeds of global citizens and socially responsible organizations and communities. He works daily on the selection and management of news, opinion, and video content. When not monitoring the ebb and flow of national and world events he does his best to remain active locally.  Email to jon@commondreams.org

Andrea Germanos is Editor for Common Dreams. A native of Chicago, Germanos woke up to social justice issues at age 13 when she joined Amnesty International. She is an educator and writer who taught English as a second language for 13 years, making it a point to incorporate media awareness into the curriculum. She spent more than a decade working with immigrant communities throughout Illinois and has participated in too many immigrants-rights and anti-war marches and rallies to count. An avid bicycler, she has logged hundreds of miles in Critical Mass rides. She is a supporter of the buy local and buy organic movements and a fanatic about household non-toxic and biodegradeable products. When she isn't on content selection and news management at Common Dreams, she can often be found writing angry letters to local politicians and managing her extensive worm composting operations. Email to andrea@commondreams.org

Abby Zimet is a contributing editor for Common Dreams. A longtime, award-winning Maine journalist, she was born in New York and raised in Toronto. In 1972 she moved to the Maine woods, where she spent a dozen years building a house, thinning the carrots, hauling too many five-gallon buckets of water, experiencing true if ragged community for the first time, and writing columns for the Bangor Daily News. After moving to Portland, she wrote for the Portland Newspapers for almost 20 years before turning to freelancing, mostly for magazines. Her stories have focused whenever possible on people and communities – low-income, refugee, immigrant, activist, Jewish – she felt were under-represented in the mainstream press. Having come of political age during the Vietnam War, she has long been involved in women's and social justice issues. She is grateful the last eight years have ended, and on behalf of her two kids is warily hopeful, against all odds, about the future. Zimet writes commentary on daily news and progressive views.  Email to abby@commondreams.org

Malory Shaughnessy is Director of Development & Special Projects for Common Dreams. Malory has experience working inside government at all levels, from local to federal. However, she finds it much more satisfying to work from the outside - advocating for social change. Over the years, her career has entailed such diverse activities as bartender, community organizer, nonprofit executive director, congressional staffer, county commissioner, policy analyst, outreach coordinator, literacy teacher and advocate. She is an active Board member of Emerge Maine, part of a national movement to address the under-representation of Democratic women in office at the local, state, and federal level; as well as the Friends of the Presumpscot River, one of the previously "most dammed" rivers in the country. Malory is married to Michael Shaughnessy, a sculptor and Professor of Art at the University of Southern Maine. She is also quite delighted to be the mother of four wonderful young men. Email to malory@commondreams.org