Alison Lewis – @alisonlewis

Alison Lewis is a nationally known Recipe Developer, Cookbook Author, Nutitionist, Magazine and Internet Journalist, Television and Social Media Spokesperson and Consultant, Food, Travel, Fitness, and Lifestyle Blogger, Food Educator, Health/Nutrition, Wellness and Event Speaker and President of Ingredients, Inc., a Food Media Consulting company in Birmingham, Alabama.

Brandi Koskie – @DietsInReview

Brandi Koskie is the managing editor at DietsInReview.com and takes full credit for the site’s successful five year run. (Fully kidding.) She’s actually one of many who make this leading diet and health site tick. Unfortunately, everyone else wouldn’t fit in her carry-on bag. While in her fifth year with DIR, she’s learned enough to know she’s never done learning and loves finding new opportunities for engaging the site’s loyal and enthusiastic readers.

Brandi is a respected health journalist and has worked with some of the biggest names in dieting and fitness. She’s attended seven Biggest Loser finales, shared sushi with Jillian Michaels, made Jimmy Fallon laugh, and was called “an expert” on NPR’s Wait! Wait! Don’t Tell Me. She’s embraced the world of interactive marketing and is proficient in SEO best practices, so much so that her super dorky hobby is researching keywords.

Personally, Brandi launched the web’s first IVF fundraiser site, BabyOrBust.com. There she “begged” the Internet for money in exchange for bearing all about her (successful) test-tube-baby making. Her story has been featured on the CBS Early Show, NPR’s StoryCorps, the book “Budgeting for Infertility,” Conceive Magazine, and the Johnson’s Baby “Moments of Joy” campaign.

Brandi lives in Wichita, Kansas with her husband and daughter, where she gets most of her exercise being a human swing set for the (almost) two-year-old. Brandi has a journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma and is, of course, working on her first book.

David Hylton – @runningbecause

David Hylton is a marketing writer/editor by day and a father, husband, blogger and co-moderator of #runchat, the most popular chat about running on Twitter.

David’s career has taken him from copy editing/page design at a small newspaper to public relations to marketing. Being active on social media in the day jobs led to the desire to do something on a personal level – running.

David and Scott Miles started #runchat in June 2010 and have seen it grow to include a Facebook page and a website. The Twitter handle — @therunchat — was created to promote #runchat events and gained more than 1,000 followers in its first week.

In addition to #runchat, David started a running blog – www.runningbecauseican.com – in 2007 as he started training for his first marathon. David has run in nearly 50 races since 2004 when he started running to lose weight.

David lives in the small town of Bedford, Va., with his wife of 8 years, Christina; son, Conner; and his best running partner, his golden retriever Duke.

Emily Sandford – @skinnyemmie

Emily Sandford is the weight loss blogger behind Skinny Emmie: a journey to get fit and live life. Since starting Skinny Emmie, she has lost over 110 pounds through workouts, clean eating, and addressing emotional issues and triggers. She is a social media consultant, blogger, and brand marketer with over eight years of experience in directing traditional, interactive, and social media marketing management to companies with revenues over $100M.

Emily owns Authentically Social, a social media marketing consultancy. She is nearly always online, serving as community manager for Enell Sports Bras, fashion blogger at Emmie Loves, contributor to ShePosts, contributor to HerKentucky, and marketing consultant to several companies. She is nearly always available via social media at @skinnyemmie or @emilysandfordon Twitter, and facebook.com/skinnyemmie. Emily has appeared in Skirt! Magazine, Spry Magazine, Shape Magazine online, Health Magazine online, Ace Weekly, and the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Emily resides in Lexington, KY with her murse (male nurse) husband David and their airedale terrier Lilly. She loves traveling and reading, and is easily distracted by sparkly things.

Karen C.L. Anderson – @kclanderson

Karen C.L. Anderson: Author. Blogger. Speaker. Creator of ah-ha moments. Lover of what is.

Karen is the author of AFTER (the before & after): a real life story of weight loss, weight gain and weightlessness through total acceptance. Her blog, “Before & After: A Real Life Story,” continues the conversation she started in her book and explores how self-acceptance heals the mind, body, and spirit.

She is currently enrolled in the Psychology of Eating coach training program where she is learning about Dynamic Eating Psychology and Mind-Body Nutrition.

Karen is also a freelance writer and speaker. Prior to becoming a freelancer, she spent 17 years trying to fit her right-brained self into a left-brained career as a trade magazine journalist in the field of plastics (and if she had a dime for every time someone mentioned that line from The Graduate…). She worked mostly in New York City, which helped make up for the trauma. She lives in New London, CT, with her husband, Tim who is most definitely a left brainer. She sincerely appreciates that in him.

Monica Olivas – @RunEatRepeat

Monica Olivas started blogging four years ago to document her weight loss and training for her first marathon at Run Eat Repeat. For some odd reason people started reading and the site has grown into a dream job! Now she blogs daily offering running tips, food diaries, weight loss features and random musings that are mostly only entertaining to her.

Monica is an ACE certified personal trainer living in southern California. She has presented at Fitbloggin ‘11 on Blogging 101 and the Healthy Living Summit ‘11 on Blogger Safety. You can follow her on twitter @RunEatRepeat or check out her site www.runeatrepeat.com

Sarah Dussault – @DietSarah

Sarah Dussault is one of the most viewed fitness personalities on YouTube. She has produced over 700 videos, earning over 100 million total views. Since 2006, Sarah has pioneered the YouTube channel for diet.com, DietHealth, as the senior video producer. From Bethenny Frankel to Ellie Krieger, Dussault has worked with some of the most influential names in the
health industry. She created her own channel, SarahsFabChannel, in 2008 and began blogging shortly thereafter at SarahFit.com. As a full time blogger, she produces, hosts, films and edits her own videos. She also hosts the YouTube produced series, Next Trainer.

Sarah is a proud Laughing Cow Community Leader. In 2011, she appeared in Women’s Health and Men’s Health from June to November as a blog editor to promote the Urbanathlon race series, called Crushing The Course. Sarah stars in the JCore Body DVD series and infomercial starring Shape contributing editor, Jay Cardiello.

Sarah is a certified personal trainer through the ACSM and trains clients privately in Boston. She was additionally named one of Stuff @ Night Magazine’s “Bodies of Boston” in 2010. She is also a reporter for a local nightlife TV show, “Dirty Water TV” which airs on NESN.

Shauna Reid – @Shauna

Shauna Reid is an Australian writer living in Scotland. She’s co-creator of Up & Running online running courses, where together with renowned coach Julia Jones, she helps women around the world of every shape and size start running.

Shauna’s memoir The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl (Harper Collins) tells the tale of her 175 pound weight loss. She’s been blogging since 2001 at dietgirl.org. Her blog and book have been featured in People magazine, CBS The Early Show, The Washington Post, ELLE, O magazine and Marie Claire to name a few.You can find out more about Shauna’s adventures at www.dietgirl.org.