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Loose LiP is directed and frequently hosted by Brian Awehali and Lisa Jervis, pictured above lounging in the grass. A veritable handful of co-conspirators also contribute, and you'll find more about all of us, below:

Brian Awehali is the editor and grand poobah of LiP: Informed Revolt, the award-winning North American magazine he founded in 1996. He spends most of his time constructing meticulous organizational systems for LiP and downloading perfectly legal music and videos, but somehow still manages to write. His freelance work, which has garnered a 2003 Society of Professional Journalists award and a 2006 Project Censored award, has appeared in or on the pages of Z Magazine/Znet, Alternet, ColorsNW, The Black World Today, High Times, Britannica.com, Tikkun, Viikkolehti (Finland), The Santa Fe New Mexican, The Asheville Global Report, Global Policy Forum, and Improvisational Cooking Today.

Lisa Jervis co-founded Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, a national nonprofit quarterly magazine offering feminist commentary on our intensely mediated world, where she served as editor and publisher for eight years and publisher for two. She is also LiP's editor at large and a founding board member of the national advocacy and education organization Women in Media and News. When she's not providing parade-raining advice, line editing, snappy patter, or suddenly cogent broad editorial guidance for various projects, Lisa writes things. Some of these things can be found in various books and magazines including Ms., the San Francisco Chronicle, the Women's Review of Books, Mother Jones, Salon, Punk Planet, Spreadsheet Slut, Low Times: The Journal of Clinical Depression, Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image (Seal Press), The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order (Penguin), Women Who Eat (Seal Press), and The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism (Greenwood). Now she is very slowly at work on a book about the intellectual legacy of gender essentialism and its effects on contemporary feminism.

Christos Ikonomopoulos lives in Ottawa, Canada and has been working as a freelancer focusing on audio since 2000. Programming for radio, hosting a weekly music show and working in post-production for film and video, Chris includes soundtracking and composing, editing, cleaning, mixing and recording as part of his work. Chris' audio and video reach has been heard and seen nationally through the CBC as well as internationally at Canada's new embassy in Berlin, Germany. Chris has also done various sound installations, has been awarded a handful of prizes for his sound work and hears audio everywhere. Stop by audiofantastic.com for more.