Jane Kleeb, Founder: Jane believes politics matter. She was a reporter for MTV, frequent guest on FOX and MSNBC and key advisor for “Thin” a documentary on eating disorders. Jane led a statewide organizing campaign on health care reform, served as the national executive director of the Young Democrats of America, the foundation director for Renfrew a mental health facility and headed up an AmeriCorps program. Jane has a "thing" for training manuals, flip charts and icebreakers. She lives in a small rural town, Hastings, with her husband Scott, an energy entrepreneur.  On the weekends you can see plenty of instagram pics of cooking, shooting a bow and her three daughters running around outside. Email Jane: jane@boldnebraska.org. Follow @janekleeb.

Mark Hefflinger, Digital & Communications Director: Mark was born and raised in Omaha, and received a Bachelor’s degree in English and Communications from Boston College. He has worked as a journalist in California, covering the digital media industry, music and LGBT issues, and more recently has been an online organizer for progressive causes. Mark worked on the No on Proposition 8 campaign in California in 2008, and afterwards with organizations including the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center on voter outreach on marriage equality. In 2012, Mark was the New Media Director on CREDO SuperPAC’s successful Congressional campaign that ousted a 30-year conservative, climate change-denying Congressman in Northern California. Email Mark: mark@boldnebraska.org.

Tom Genung, Regional Pipeline Fighter: Tom Genung and his wife Cathie have been a fixture at Bold Nebraska's events since the founding of the organization in 2009. Tom served as chairman of the Nebraska Easement Action Team, the collective of Nebraska farmers and ranchers who refused to sell their land to TransCanada for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Tom is a Regional Pipeline Fighter for Bold Nebraska, continuing to organize landowners and advocates to get engaged and stop the pipeline.

Justin Kemerling, Designer: As a community-minded designer and activist, consider Justin an extremely interested party in how America exists in the world, what it means to be a global citizen today and how to make change beautiful. For more: JKDC.