White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer to speak at Netroots Nation

The line­up of speak­ers for the sixth annu­al Net­roots Nation is final­ly start­ing to fill out, with just a week and three days to go before the con­ven­tion begins.

Orga­niz­ers announced this morn­ing that White House Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tor Dan Pfeif­fer will be par­tic­i­pat­ing in a ques­tion and answer ses­sion with atten­dees. Pfeif­fer will like­ly be field­ing ques­tions about every­thing from the U.S. mil­i­tary’s treat­ment of Bradley Man­ning to the lack of action on address­ing the cli­mate crisis.

Also slat­ed to speak is new Demo­c­ra­t­ic Nation­al Com­mit­tee chair­woman Deb­bie Wasser­man Schultz and Pres­i­dent Oba­ma’s nation­al cam­paign field direc­tor, Jere­my Bird. They will be join­ing Russ Fein­gold, Sen­a­tors Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Ben Cardin, and Rep­re­sen­ta­tives Tim Walz and Kei­th Ellison.

There will be some famil­iar faces too, includ­ing Don­na Edwards, Howard Dean, Jer­ry Nadler, and Van Jones, who have become main­stays and crowd favorites at Net­roots Nation. State Sen­a­tor Chris Lar­son, one of the Wis­con­sin four­teen, is also con­firmed to speak. It will cer­tain­ly be an hon­or to hear from him.

Three of us will be going to Min­neapo­lis on NPI’s behalf next week. We’re very excit­ed, and we’ve spent quite a bit of time get­ting ready for the trip.

We’ll be pro­vid­ing live cov­er­age through­out the day on Thurs­day, Fri­day, and Sat­ur­day of next week (the 16th, 17th, and 18th), so be sure to check in often to find out what’s hap­pen­ing in the Twin Cities.