Lynn Grillo As a Senior Solutions Engineer with Adobe Systems, Lynn's work includes demonstrating and teaching Adobe's products for creative professionals. Based in the New York metro area, Lynn is an Adobe Certified Expert in numerous Adobe applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, GoLive and InCopy. Lynn proudly holds Adobe Print, Web and Creative Suite Master certifications. Lynn has workflow and technology experience in multiple verticals such as book, newspaper & magazine publishing, textile design, advertising and retail. To date, she has co-authored and tech edited a number of books on Adobe software, most recently acting as technical editor for A Designer's Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML. Lynn contributes regularly to Web sites and magazines for creative professionals and has recorded training for Total Training, Lynda.com and Terry White's Creative Suite Podcast.

Laura Dell strengthens organizations and leaders. Her long-standing consulting practice, focused on developing leaders and expanding capacity, is informed by a startlingly long and varied history serving a wide array of businesses, including several AAN members. Laura holds an M.A. in Organization Development, and her expertise has evolved through 35 years of leading in and consulting to workplaces. She is currently the C.O.O. of a mid-size not-for-profit in the Chicago area where she enjoys ample opportunity to practice what she preaches.

Alice Neff Lucan has been AAN's legal hotline attorney since 2000. Her Washington, D.C.-based solo practice is dedicated to the representation of newspapers and press associations, along with an occasional author or commercial database. She was in-house counsel at Gannett Co., Inc. for 10 years, then of counsel to the Denver firm of Davis, Graham & Stubbs. In addition to her law practice, Lucan teaches Legal Aspects of Communications to graduate students in the master's program at American University's School of Communications.

Alex Hamilton is a product manager with Enfocus Software, internationally recognized as a pioneer in PDF technology.

Robert Newman was most recently the design director of Fortune magazine and the creative director of Real Simple. He has also been the design director of Entertainment Weekly, New York, Details, Vibe, Inside, The Village Voice and Guitar World. Newman and his teams have won numerous publication design awards and medals. On his own he has worked with a wide array of magazines and newspapers, consulting on issues ranging from staffing to cover design to overall art direction. He is past president of the Society of Publication Designers, has been a frequent guest lecturer at the Poynter Institute, and speaks regularly to groups and conferences about publication design and art direction.

Joe MacLeod used to be a shoe clerk. He has enjoyed working at City Paper in Baltimore for 22 years, the last million of which he has served as art director. His favorite font is Wedgie. Buy Joe a drink and he will tell you all the Missile Launch Codes.

Joe MacLeod used to be a shoe clerk. He has enjoyed working at City Paper in Baltimore for 22 years, the last million of which he has served as art director. His favorite font is Wedgie. Buy Joe a drink and he will tell you all the Missile Launch Codes.

Liz Osting has been working as a graphic designer for The Austin Chronicle for the past five years. Prior to the Chronicle and post-completion of two arts degrees, she designed for a variety of advertising agencies and her freelance business, Herculiz.com. These experiences have taught her to come up with budget-conscious, inventive and effective solutions to please even the pickiest of commissioners.

Mike Kalyan is a production workflow and technology consultant who specializes in evaluating production/prepress processes and integrating automation and desktop publishing software. An expert in print contract negotiations and in obtaining vendor bids, he uses all of these skills as production manager for an education non-profit publisher, ASCD, in Alexandria, VA. He also served as the former production director for Washington City Paper.

Mike Brenner grew up in Los Angeles immersed in mass media and pop culture. As a teenager, he was an actor and musician as well as an honored playwright and public speaker. After graduating UCSB with a BA in English and Psychology, he played music in various bands while working as a designer and production manager at The Santa Barbara Independent where he was also a regular arts reviewer. He has worked in film, theater, and music production. When he became too impatient to see the dream of rock stardom to fruition, Mike returned to school at the Academy of Art to earn his MFA in Advertising. He received a Merit award from the One Club in 2006 and has been a copywriter at ATTIK for over a year. His work for AOL RED was AdCritic's Print Pick of the Day and Mike was recently named the "Best Emerging Talent" of 2007 by Adweek magazine. He continues to work on Boost Mobile, ExpressJet Airlines and Scion.

Nick Bilton has worked in a number of different industries within the contexts of design, technology and journalism. Currently he is employed at The New York Times, where his time is shared between the newspaper, where he serves as design integration editor, and The Times' R&D lab, where he is the user interface specialist. During his tenure at The Times, Nick has worked editorially with Sunday Styles, Circuits, Business Day, Sports and a variety of special sections, including Elections, Oscars and section redesigns. He was also one of the co-creating team members of the Times Reader, a newspaper-like application that is downloaded to a computer, laptop or tablet PC and has the look and feel of the print publication while maintaining the immediacy of nytimes.com online news.