Keri Brenner, editor of Healdsburg Patch, has been a newspaper reporter and editor for almost 20 years. She has a master's degree in journalism from Penn State University. She has won numerous awards for investigative journalism and is the author of a non-fiction book on holistic health. You can follow her personal Facebook page or see her postings at Healdsburg Patch's Facebook page. You may also follow her @HealdsburgPatch Twitter feed. Also, you may visit Keri Brenner's website at www.keribrennercommunications.com or e-mail her with story tips at keri.brenner@patch.com.

I made two great decisions at the end of 2011: Moving to Napa and joining the Patch.com's Wine Country Team!

My little slice of Heaven is in the Oak Knoll district, where I plan to be farming organic fruit and veg, while enjoying my neighbor's fermented home-grown grapes!

My bigger slice of Patch-Heaven is managing the fabulous Patch Advertising Managers (from Healdsburg, to Sacramento, to Palo Alto and in between) who help businesses partner with patch.com to increase their community awareness and grow their clientele.

I love meeting new people, making new friends, doing yoga and teaching people how to enjoy "raw food for real life" uncooking. In my soare time, as a raw food chef, my joy comes from inspiring people to eat REAL, whole foods in their freshest, nutrient- dense form.

As a Patchy, community-loving staffer, I love evangelizing patch websites that help us all stay connected to the REAL information that matters to us, our families and our neighbors. Making people's lives ridiculously easy and fun is Patch's mission, and I'm thrilled to be part of the Patch team in Northern California.

Lori is passionate about her family, friends, and community!  Her new venture with patch has added "helping her business partners to patchercize their marketing" to her list of passions.

A native of Sonoma County, being involved in local Chambers of Commerce, being a Chamber Leadership Graduate, and involved Leadership Alumni, working with many local non profits,  having a husband in a local small business, 2 children in local schools, and a successful career in multi media advertising…..she is vested in our community, and is passionate about your success!

Christian Kallen has lived in Healdsburg since 1990, more or less, with time off for the Internet boom and bust. He delivers multiple media solutions for web partners, and shares historical perspectives on his adopted home town in Now and Then on Patch.

Rebecca Rosen Lum is a freelance journalist based in San Francisco. After graduating from SFSU, she interned at the Center for Investigative Reporting, where she covered the Northern California timber wars and other stories. She reported on demographics, culture and the census for the Marin Independent-Journal. She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of Richmond for the Contra Costa Times, and won two John Swett awards for her education reporting. Most recently, she wrote about faith and culture for the Times. She chairs the CWA's first guild unit for freelance journalists and is webmaster at GuildFreelancers.org.

Lifelong Sonoma County resident and 24-year Healdsburg-er, writer and photographer Ann Carranza received a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies from Sonoma State University in 2009.

Ann's most recent gig was as the Healdsburg Community Blogger for the Press Democrat online's, Your Town Hub.  Other writing experience includes working as a stringer for the Healdsburg Tribune.  Her most recent magazine article was published in "Outdoor California" earlier this year. 

As a poet, Ann was a candidate for the first Healdsburg Literary Laureate and her poem Immigrant Girl is published in the online magazine, Harlot's Sauce.

In addition to being the founder and host of Wine Oh TV, Monique is a seasoned journalist with over ten years experience working in broadcasting. Monique has worked in newsrooms across the country including: KPIX-TV/CBS 5, KNTV-TV/NBC 11, KSEE-TV/NBC 24, KCBS-TV/CBS 2, KGTV-TV/ABC 10, and KPVI-TV/NBC 6. Monique is also a trained SAG/AFTRA actor and studied at The Groundlings, Warner Loughlin Studios and The Atlantic Theater Company and she can be seen on various films, television shows and commercials.

Monique has a certification from the Court of Master Sommeliers and has interviewed over one hundred winemakers and counting.

You can find out more about me by visitng my website www.moniquesoltani.com

Professional photographer since 1974. Started with the Novato Advance weekly newspaper 1974-1980. Began Rick Tang Photography in 1980, in Novato. Moved to Sonoma County about 1988, and to Healdsburg in 2000.

Photojournalism has always been my passion.  My aspects of photography include events, portraits, aerial, wine country scenics and products, farmers markets, and fine art.

I have been a member of Rotary International for over 34 years.

After moving his entire life and traveling extensively, Ken settled in Sonoma County in 1999.  As a photojournalist, Ken worked for different daily papers in Southern California and freelanced for organizations such as United Press International.  He joins the Patch team after taking many years off from the news business to build a career and raise a family.  Ken holds a BA in Journalism with concentrations in Photojournalism and Cultural Anthropology from California State University, Northridge.

Phil Meyer is Professor Emeritus in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was inducted into the North Carolina Hall of Fame in Journalism in the spring of 2008.  He joined the Journalism School in 1981 and served as Knight Chair in Journalism Professor from 1993-2008.  Prior to joining the school, he held a number of reporter and research positions at various media outlets. 

He has won numerous awards including the 2005 Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Research About Journalism (with Scott Maier). He was named a Fellow of Society of Professional Journalists in 2005. In 2004, the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication gave him its Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award. And in 2000 he received the American Association for Public Opinion Research Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement.

Meyer is the author of several books including The Vanishing Newspaper:  Saving Journalism in the Information Age and Precision Journalism:  A Reporter’s Introduction to Social Science Methods.  Journalism Quarterly in 2000 listed this book as one of the 35 significant books of the 20th century in journalism and mass communication; and the American Association for Public Opinion Research, observing its 50th anniversary in 1996, listed it as one of 50 significant books on public opinion research.

He received his B.S. in technical journalism from Kansas State University and his M.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina.

Jeff Jarvis is the associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism.  He also blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com; is consulting editor of Daylife; writes a media column for the Guardian, and consults for media companies.

Prior to his current responsibilities, Jarvis held positions including president and creative director of Advance.net; creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associated publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune and reporter for Chicago Today.

Jarvis is the author of What Would Google Do?

Steven Berlin Johnson is a pioneer in the web world, as a co-founder of FEED, Plastic.com, and Outside.in, which was acquired by Patch in March of 2011. He also co-created Findings.com, which launched in late 2011. Steven was the 2009 Hearst New Media Professional-in-Residence at The Journalism School at Columbia University, and served for several years as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU’s Journalism School. He is a bestselling author of seven books, and won acclaim and a Newhouse School Mirror Award for his 2010 Time Magazine cover story, "How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live." 

Speaking of Steven's editorial prowess, check out this video based on Steven's book, Where Good Ideas Come From, which was named one of the best books of 2010 by The Economist.