Melissa Gira Grant is the co-founder of the sex workers' group blog, Bound, not Gagged, and writes about sex & the internet at her award-winning blog, Sexerati.  Her work has appeared in Best Sex Writing 2008, $pread, Make:, Valleywag, & The Frisky, and she has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, Cosmopolitan (France), Wired News, NPR, and BBC Radio, among many others. Melissa has been a consultant with the Soros Foundation's Sexual Health and Rights' Project and the St. James Infirmary on using blogging, podcasting, videoblogging, and online social networks for advocacy and movement building among sex workers. She has presented her work on sexual health, human rights, and new media at the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, the Third Wave Feminist Foundation, the University of San Francisco, the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, the Center for Sex and Culture, the New School for Social Research, and the UC Berkeley Labor Center. She guest lectures to public health, sexuality, political science and sociology students on sex, media, technology, and human rights, and teaches hands-on media making skills for community-based organizations around the world.