Tracy Van Slyke is a nationally recognized leader and expert working at the intersection of progressive organizing, strategic communications, and independent media. Most recently, Van Slyke was the director of the New Bottom Line, an alignment of the leading grassroots organizations in the country working together to build a new economy that works for everyone. Van Slyke has also been the director of the Media Consortium, a network of the leading progressive, independent media outlets in the country, and the publisher of In These Times. She commissioned and co-edited the pioneering report The Big Thaw: Charting a New Future for Journalism. She is a co-author, with Jessica Clark, of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (The New Press) and has produced numerous other articles, blogs, and reports on the future of journalism and progressive media.