Jessica Barder: Cooking in the most hostile environment on earth is a challenge, but I'm living the most amazing adventure

Jerome Hardy: I still live with my parents because I only make $9 an hour working at the Pentagon. If Obama wants to address inequality, he could start by helping low-wage government contractors

Alisa Suzuki: I started cake decorating as a hobby when I was 13. Now my job is to design cakes and transform visions into sugar paste

Laurentina: I am striking today for better wages for my family and others like me. Most raises we get at McDonald's are only 5 or 10 cents

Jerry Givens: I was responsible for putting 62 inmates to death in Virginia. I regret it deeply and now campaign to end capital punishment

Economists may have declared the recession over, but plenty of US families need help from their local food banks

Scott Barbour: One Direction stayed at the hotel for a week. We had several hundred teen girls trying to gain access to the guest floors

Suranga Mallawa: The Zaatari camp is the world's second largest, with 115,000 refugees. What would you like to know about my day's work?

Willio Lacomme: For me, there's no good day. I'm a part-time employee, although I often work close to 40 hours a week and don't get benefits

Dave Stieber: I grieved with my students after a classmate was killed, and have watched our school lose funding little by little. Any questions?

Tyson Cornfield has been working on oil rigs in northern Canada for five years. He'll answer questions today from 2pm to 4pm ET

Nancy Brenner: This is not a profession for wallflowers.' PR these days is a mix of emergency room triage, matchmaking and innovation