These are the two panel proposals that were submitted:

What is Possible?
New media is our new frontier. The possibilities for what we can create online are endless. As humans it is ultimately up to us what we decide to invent, imagine and make possible. This panel will explore the possibilities for innovation, collaboration and transformation that become possible through New Media.

Is Technology the Great Equalizer?
Is technology the great equalizer or is said meme disguising another truth? This panel will explore said question and reflect on the experience, perspective and vision of the panelists and the community who comes willing to grapple with the question and its relevance in our current digital world.

Fellow panelists are:

Marisa Treviño
Marisa Treviño is a Dallas, Texas-based freelance opinion journalist and the publisher of the site Latina Lista. Latina Lista (www.latinalista.net) is an extension of her 16-year journalism career where she takes the news of the day that impacts the Latino community and adds her perspective — with the goal of creating dialogue and understanding across communities and borders. In addition, she is a weekly columnist with the online news site Rio Grande Guardian, a contributing columnist with Hispanic Link News service and is an award-winning public radio commentator for Texas public radio station KERA. Her columns have appeared in USA Today, as well as, syndicated across the country in both English and Spanish. She has also been a guest on CNN and NPR news shows.

Manuel Guzmán
Manuel Guzmán is a resident of Tucson, Arizona and has been blogging as ManEegee since 2004, covering border policies and promoting a human rights-centric view of immigration reform. He holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Arizona and s the founder of Latino Politico as well as a contributor to The Sanctuary. Manuel sees the web as a tool to magnify grassroots efforts that fight on behalf of migrant workers and families as well as leverage political power to enact comprehensive immigration reform that respects the dignity and hard work of those ensnared by a broken system.

Dee Perez-Scott
From Migrant Worker in Michigan to Business Woman in Texas, Dee has supported Immigrant and Minority rights volunteering in the community, reading to children and advocating Education in order to achieve the American Dream. Dee’s Blog is: Immigration Talk with a Mexican American. She also writes for: The Sanctuary, Citizen Orange and The Peace Tree.

Kety Esquivel
Kety Esquivel is the New Media Manager for the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). She has over ten years of experience in the non-profit, private and political sectors. She directed Latino outreach for the Clark Presidential Campaign. Esquivel graduated from Cornell University where she served on the Board of Trustees. She is the founder of CrossLeft and co-founder of the Institute of Progressive Christianity and The Sanctuary. Her commentary has been featured and quoted in stories for the Wall St. Journal Online, HITN, PBS, XM radio, CNN, Televisa and Univision.

One more thing. Once you voted, if you could please leave a comment letting people know how awesome we are and it would be a mistake to leave us out.

A new chapter is beginning. I am now being asked how I succeeded in spreading my message and how it can be replicated. Yes dear readers, I am now considered an online media expert. I have been asked to be a co-presenter with Kety Esquivel of NCLR’s We Can Stop the Hate, Nezua of The Unapologetic Mexican and Jill Garvey of Imagine 2050 and and Raven Brooks, Executive Director of Netroots Nation, in a community building workshop on new media techniques for this year’s National Council of La Raza’s (NCLR) Annual Conference in Chicago. The Annual Conference will be held July 25 – 28 at McCormick Place West in downtown Chicago, IL.

“New Media” is still still in its infancy and is rapidly changing and it is easy to get lost. This workshop is intended to people a firm understand to navigate this rapidly developing field to explore new communications strategies and tools, especially the power of networking with like-minded communities for local/global actions and sharing of resources.

If you are planning to attend NCLR’s Annual Conference and want to find out how you or your organization can utilize all that new media has to offer, then this workshop is for just for you. Hope to see you there.