Angel Propps is Ms. SouthEastLeatherFest2011, a monogamous sex positive femme, feminist leatherdyke vegetarian and the collared submissive of Sir OB. She's an internationally published writer of horror and lesbian BDSM erotica who is reading for Ravenous Romance's Reading Nights in NYC, a poet who has appeared in arts journals and the author of many nonfiction articles on BDSM. She began her journey into kink while playing bass in Riot Grrl bands; her first spanking scene took place in a bathroom stall after a gig,she has been getting spanked ever since. During her band days she spent six months touring and living in a van. With that experience in mind she enlisted the aid of several friends and they spent a year walking the bridges that span the river that divides Phenix City, Alabama from Columbus, Georgia, helping homeless veterans to fill out necessary forms to ensure that they could receive financial assistance and medical aid.
As a single mother Angel worked in strip clubs, one of which she eventually became the manager of. Her stripping skills have been put to good use, just last year she appeared at IMsL's Seduction show dressed as a schoolgrrl while she gave her Daddy a lap dance. Angel embraces her complicated nature, pinning her down is almost impossible because her personality has so many different aspects. One of those aspects is a puppy and Angel has written upon the subject, most notably in a series run by Leatherati.com. Angel was Den Mommy at SE Olympus and has presented or will be presenting classes on Puppy Play 101, Bratting:It's Not Topping From The Bottom, AgePlay, and Lap Dancing to Capex, BEG, MAsT/Monroe, the South Carolina Leather Contest and T3WD as well as at DomCon Atlanta, Brimstone and Houston FFF.

CoCo Monroe is a Mistress, a Mommy and the Matriarch of the LuxeVox Queer Leather family. Monroe is also a burlesque performer, health and sexuality educator, graphic and web designer and LGBT rights activist. She began her exploration of kink in a friend's basement, and has been thirsty for new knowledge, skills and abilities ever since, incorporating her kinky side into her work as an educator and performer whenever possible and appropriate.
From humble beginnings as a burlesque performer, six years later Monroe has performed for a number of large-scale events including IMsL's Seduction, the Baltimore Erotic Arts Festival, Washington, DC's Art-O-Matic, and the annual Sugar Red and Black Ball in Baltimore. She has also produced burlesque and erotic art shows for the Crucible in Washington, DC, and the first annual event, FetFest. She has been interviewed by the Washington Post and the Washington Blade, and most recently has taught classes in erotic performance for the Playhouse and Sugar in Baltimore.
Monroe is also passionate about her decade of work within the LGBT community as a health and sexuality educator and activist. Special recognition of those efforts include being featured in MetroWeekly's top 30 under 30 in 2007 and designing the cover art for the 2009 Lesbian Health Conference. Most recently she appeared on WPFW's radio program "Inside Out" and on Dr. Ruthie's Sex-Positive Professionals podcast.
Monroe wants to help bridge gaps between the alternative sexuality communities as well as help rid shame of our bodies and our sexual interests through education of individuals and providers. Believing in the power that a conference like IMsL can generate through the access to education and community, she looks forward to competing and celebrating her wedding anniversary this year at IMsL 2012

With Bachelor degrees in English and Drama, a Masters in Journalism and Mass Communication, a PhD in Cultural Studies, and a soon-to-be conferred PhD in Communications, Ohh is an overeducated but down-to-earth kinkster and popular culture aficionado. She considers herself a kinky, semi-radical, sex-positive, monoflexible, womanist femme although most people mistake her for the girl-next-door. When she's not hard at work or play, you can find her reading comics, watching sci-fi, generally geeking out, or plotting how best to execute her plan to become a modern day Amazon warrior.
Ohh has been a member of her local fetish/BDSM communities for just over 3 years and the leather community for one year. She is the founder of Grapple Pitt and the Pittsburgh Mentoring Program, a leader of Pittsburgh Bridge Munch, and a member of TNG Pittsburgh, The Art of Female Dominance, Rope Bite Pittsburgh, Rainbow Munch, and the Three Rivers Leather Club. Ohh has presented and/or demo bottomed at several events throughout the United States and Canada including multiple GRUEs, WOLFE, Dark Odyssey Winter Fire, Shibaricon, Dark Odyssey Summer Camp, Kinko de Mayo, and TEASE. She has also appeared as a bondage model for Kink Academy and Beauties in Bondage.
When she is not pursuing kinky endeavors, Ohh plies her trade as an academic researcher and instructor specializing in media theory, transnational communication, popular culture, and identity studies.

Rio is a lesbian butch boi switch who loves leather and the people who wear it. Born in Indiana, she lived in India as well as five other US states before coming to California in 1995. She ran a feminist bookstore in the 1980s which was one of the few in the country to carry women's BDSM materials.
Today she serves as Co-coordinator of The Exiles, the largest women's BDSM organization in the country, and is their representative to the San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance. She also works with the Northwest Leather Celebration, and the on-line magazine Kink-e-zine. She was First Runner-Up in the 2011 Ms San Francisco Leather contest, and was voted the 2011 'Golden Dildo' award as "Our Favorite Silver-Haired Fox" from the Golden Gate Guards. She served for 3 years on the Planning Committee for Venus' Playground, the women's area of the Folsom Street Fair, and she and her wife were featured in a 2010 article on polyamory published in the New York Times. Rio loves teaching, and has led or contributed to workshops on everything from impact play, clothespins, and rhythmic caning to Saran-wrap mummification and genital torture, at venues like International Ms. Leather, Desire, Leather-Levi Weekend, Leather Alley at Gay Pride, the SFCitadel, Dore Alley, and the Folsom Street Fair. Rio is proud to be a member of the RavenFire leather family, and service is an important focus, both in her community activities and her personal D/s relationship with her wife. Professionally, Rio works in the publishing industry. In what little free time she has, she also enjoys singing, leather craft, kayaking, and landscape painting.

Sarha Shaubach, The Last Frontier Men's Clubs' Ms. Alaska Leather 2011/12, is a married owned submissive, fur trader, farmer, and supermarket vegetarian, who is proud to call Alaska her home. She was raised on the banks of the Kenai River and is now growing her roots in Wasilla, Alaska in the Fox Den with her children and chosen family. She dedicates her energy to community involvement and expanding SM & Leather education through workshops, demo nights and themed parties.
Nearly ten years ago, Sarha made a promise to herself to no longer sleep through her dreams, and nervously ventured out from behind her computer screen to discover Alaska's tiny BDSM community. In 2006, she met, seduced, and married a retired First Sergeant with the US ARMY and has been in service to her Veteran, his Purple Heart, his needs, and his whims ever since.
After lurking in the corners at her first play party, Sarha was inspired to host an event of her own design. She then hosted another, and another, until her party planning passion drove her in 2010 to host Alaska's first ever SM & Leather convention, complete with nine kink educators from all over North America. She dared to do this without ever first attending a convention.
Here are a few more tantalizing tidbits about Sarha;
She never wears panties, owns more high heels than a shoemaker's daughter, is master to a mutt named Lady, and only plays from the top as the "Diet Dom."
Last year, The Imperial Court of All Alaska named Sarha, "Alaska's Most Active Title Holder", and awarded her their "Rising Star" award, even though she has never held a title with their organization.
Sarha describes herself as happy, determined, frank, caring, human, horny and loyal. 

Synn, Ms. Texas Leather 2012, is a Southern Butch Leatherdyke who identifies as a Daddy, Service Top, and Switch. She first discovered Leather in 1996 and has been involved in the community since then. At the beginning of her journey, her work required her to travel extensively. As she visited many of America's larger cities, she began discovering opportunities to attend munches, meetings, and events which allowed her to receive training and mentorship from a variety of diverse perspectives within the Leather community.
An active player in the Dallas community, Synn is currently a member of Women in Leather-International, National Leather Association-International, and the Sharon St.Cyr Fund. Her favorite kink activities include (but are not limited to!) fire play, rope, edge play, and bondage. She frequently attends events in Texas and other states, and recently served as Head Judge for Mr. Dallas Eagle 2012. She is a steadfast activist for the Deaf and hard of hearing, working to promote the SSC fund and advocate for accessibility in private and public events. Synn is in a committed, open relationship and currently lives with her primary partner and their two goofy dogs and two bossy cats. She is a graduate of Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, and has been a professional chef for twenty-four years. She has been an Executive Chef for eighteen years, and currently works as a corporate chef and a professor of culinary arts in the Dallas area. Synn also provides catering services for local BDSM community organizations from small parties to large events.

Tokyo, I'm gender fluid, female-expressed Top-heavy switch living in Sydney, Australia. I was born in Perth, WA. Although lesbian identified from an early age, I've come to identify as Queer in the last 3yrs. I work as a professional Dominatrix in my own studio and am proud to be a sex worker. I was a practicing kinkster before I even knew the meaning of the word or the existence of a SM subculture. As a child I was fascinated with sensations, predicaments or power dynamics I now understand through the eyes of an avowed fetishist and BDSM player. I'm a collector of fetish clothing; in particular boots, shoes and vintage medical gear. I have a strong interest in Shibari and run an invite-only female-expressed Queer rope group. I also make my own rubber clothing and play gear under the label "Gomu Latex". I also facilitate workshops for different kink organisations in Sydney.
My scene name "Tokyo" comes from a lifelong interest in Japanese culture. I majored in Japanese, speak the language and regularly travel to Japan. I practise Aikido and believe in the martial way as an expression of the "art of living". My love of the Japanese arts has influenced My aesthetic sensibilities, character and spirituality.
As a player, I find Myself most intuitive, most focused and most transformed when absorbed by a scene. This is My highest experience of BDSM. In this vein I find the activities an end in themselves, whether it be a complex extended scene or the simple pleasure of a favourite fetish object. In complement, I'm passionate about freedom of human expression. My desire as an SM player and as a sex worker is to encourage others to greater freedom, as I find My own explorations into BDSM and Fetish one of My highest forms of personal expression.

Bear has been in the BDSM community for 14 years and involved in the local community for 7 years. She is many things, fluid and always changing, constantly evolving and learning more about herself every day. She finds most labels very confining, they are but a scratch on the surface of who she is and are subject to change without notice. That said, she often identifies as a boi and/or a bear and always identifies as Leather and as having a Leather Service Heart. When asked how to address her she often replies by saying, "I'm just a Bear". She likes to approach most things in life with a healthy sense of humor.

Tarna has been actively involved in the various BDSM/Kink communities for close to 14 years now having been inspired by various books ready in her early teens. Armed with a sense of child like wonder, and boundless curiosity she has spent those years joyfully traveling these crazy, sexy and wonderful realms. Exploring the majority of what came her way from forays into dominance and submission, masochism and sadism, and service; to the joys of canes, humiliation/degradation, rough body play, whips, and most recently cigars.
Most recently her path has brought her the opportunities to become more active within her community by taking part in various fundraising ventures to support various local and international charities, and more recently in the hosting and organizing the Surge munches, which serve leather and kinky women and transfolk.
She also continues to pursue her passion for bootblacking, be it at events through out Ontario and more recently into the United States, at her home bar, the Toronto Black Eagle; or sharing what she has learned over the years with others through workshops and general discussions.
When not blissfully filthy with polish or running amok with friends, this cheeky little devil can either be found deep in conversation at the local leather bar discussing various new recipes, ingredients or cooking techniques and gadgets; or at other quieter times she may be curled up surrounded by cookbooks as she plans her next exciting dinner party, or buried deep in a novel filled with elves, and vampires, and were-creatures …oh my!