On-Air Sports Contributor (CNN, NBC News, HLN, Entertainment Tonight's The Insider on CBS); Creator, Executive Producer, Former Talk Show Host for Huffington Post

With the Giants and Royals heading into the World Series this week, we FEATURE Alexis McCombs. McCombs is the former creator, producer and host of the talk show "Instant She-Play" on AOL Sports - Huffington Post where three women interviewed top NFL athletes about politics, religion and other hot topics. She's also served as a judge for the Sports Emmys Awards and is a board member for the Association of Women in Sports Media (AWSM). Media includes: The New York Times, USA Today, ABC.com, Sirius Radio and Black Enterprise.

Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science

To discuss the wider implications of New York's ban of 34,500 citizens from buying firearms due to mental health reasons, we FEATURE Kristin Goss. Goss is an assistant professor of public policy studies and political science at Duke University. Professor Goss is the author of Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America (Princeton University Press, 2006). The book is based on her doctoral study, which won the American Political Science Association’s 2003 Harold D. Lasswell Award for the nation’s best dissertation in policy studies. Media includes: The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Raleigh News and Observer.

Director

As Gamergate raises awareness about misogyny in video games and online, we FEATURE Soraya Chemaly. Chemaly is a feminist writer, media critic and activist whose work focuses on women’s rights and the role of gender in politics, religion and popular culture. She is a regular contributor to Salon, The Huffington Post, RHRealityCheck, Fem2.0, Role Reboot, The Feminist Wire and other online media. Most recently, Ms. Chemaly was one of the primary organizers of a successful social media campaign demanding that Facebook recognize misogynistic content as hate speech. Media includes: The Huffington Post, Fem 2.0, Alternet, The Guardian and The Feminist Wire.

Consultant

Indiana police identified a registered sex offender as the suspected killer of seven women in Indiana. To discuss, we FEATURE Leslie Crocker Snyder, who has spent 31 years in public service as a prosecutor and a judge and was the first woman to try felony and homicide cases as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's office. During her nine years in the office, she founded and led the Sex Crimes Prosecution Bureau, the first in the nation and a model throughout the country, rewrote the rape laws and co-authored New York State's Rape Shield Law. After leaving the New York County District Attorney's Office, Leslie Crocker Snyder was named the Chief of Trials at the Office of the Special Prosecutor against Corruption. Media includes: The Today Show, MSNBC, CNN, 60 Minutes, and Charlie Rose.