Called “the Dean of Black Bloggers” and “a woman who's on the cutting edge of the internet and social media," Gina McCauley is a lawyer turned blogger who founded the popular blog, WhatAboutOurDaughters.com. She is also the founder of the Blogging While Brown Conference, Black Social Media Summit and Chair of the Black Weblog Awards.

In 2007, ESSENCE magazine named Ms. McCauley one of the 25 Most Influential African Americans, right after then-senator Barack Obama. That same year she won the Black Weblog Award Judges’ Award for “Blog of the Year”. In 2009, she was the Sonya Sanchez keynote speaker at the Kentucky Women’s Writers’ Conference. In 2010, she was selected to The Root 100, The Root’s list of emerging and established leaders in the African-American community. In 2011, she was selected as a “Digital Doyenne” by the Digital Moving Images Salon at Spelman College and Women in Film and Television- Atlanta. In April 2013, Gina appeared on the cover of Black Enterprise's annual technology issue.

Her blog posts have been cited frequently in mainstream media, including on CNN, Entertainment Tonight, and the CBS Morning Show, PBS, NDTV, NPR, the Tom Joyner Morning Show, RTE Radio 1 in Ireland, and XM radio. In addition, she has written for The Guardian, The Observer, Blackvoices.com, ESSENCE.com and Essence magazine.

In response to a lack of diversity at large social media and networking conferences, Ms. McCauley founded Blogging While Brown, the first international conference for bloggers of color. In addition to designing and implementing the curriculum for digital literacy training, she regularly speaks at some of the largest social media conferences in the world, including South by Southwest Interactive, Netroots Nation, Blogher, and Blog World Expo.