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* '''Erika Dionisio''' is a graduating student in the Department of Applied Psychology, University of Padua. She was involved in a field qualitative research on genital modifications in the Venda region in South Africa, and she collected data on body image from South African students. Padua, Italy.
* '''Dean Edell''', MD, received his medical degree from Cornell University. He is known for his candid straight talk on radio and television, translating complicated medical information into concise, easy-to-understand reports, and for tackling topics that are obscure, unusual, and often controversial. As one of the first media doctors, he knows the dangers of distorted medical reporting. Dr. Edell sorts through the morass of research, distinguishing fact from fiction. He has been outspoken on the issue of [[circumcision]] and promoted genital integrity since 1982. San Francisco, California, USA. * '''Christopher Fletcher''', MD, is a family physician in Santa Fe, NM, who graduated cum laude from Harvard College, has an MD from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, and residency training in the University of Massachusetts Medical Center Family Practice Residency Program. He has been in public and private practice in New Mexico since 1981, is an assistant clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, and has a long-term interest in circumcision issues, having not performed one since 1981 and having left his own sons intact. He takes pride in being a supporter of the nurses who founded Nurses for the Rights of the Child at St. Vincent Hospital. He has delivered over a thousand babies and with aggressive but supportive and caring education of parents was able to prevent all but 10 of the boys he delivered from being circumcised. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
* '''Pia Grassivaro Gallo''', PhD, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Padua’s Psychology Faculty, and former teacher of Applied Biology, Human Genetics, and Anthropogenetics. Her research on the biology of current human populations has taken place in several developing countries, particularly Somalia (from 1972 to 1985). At the invitation of the Somali Ministry of Public Health (1981), she was invited to take part in a scientific mission to Somaliland. Since 1988, she has been responsible for the Padua Working Group on FGM, dealing with African immigrants in Italy. Since 2000, she has studied the expansive forms of the traditional interventions on female genitalia, carrying out field research in Central Africa (Uganda, Malawi, and Congo RDC). She was co-coordinator of the VIIIth International Symposium on Circumcision and Human Rights. Padua, Italy.
* '''[[John V. Geisheker]]''', JD, a native of New Zealand, is the Executive Director of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]], an international non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington. As Director of D.O.C., he appears at medical and childbirth conventions, as well as educational institutions, presenting on the medical science and bioethics of merely cultural, non-therapeutic infant genital surgeries. He is the author of numerous publications on the subject. A law professor by education, he has been a litigator, law lecturer, arbitrator, and mediator, specializing in medical disputes for 27 years. Most recently, he and D.O.C. successfully defended Misha Boldt, a 14-year-old facing an involuntary religious conversion, including non-therapeutic circumcision, a cause that was eventually appealed to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Geisheker is proud that, in the 1960s, his native [[New Zealand]] fully abandoned medicalized infant circumcision as unethical and unnecessary. Seattle, Washington, USA. * '''Marilyn Fayre Milos''', RN, is the founder and director of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers ([[NOCIRC]]) and coordinator of the International Symposia on Circumcision, Sexual Mutilations, and Genital Integrity. She is the co-editor of the symposia books, '''Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy''' (1997), '''Male and Female Circumcision: Medical Legal and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice''' (1999), '''Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem''' (2001), '''Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society''' (2004), '''Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy, and Change''' (2006), '''Circumcision and Human Rights''' (Springer 2008), '''Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice''' (2010), editor of the NOCIRC Annual Newsletter, and the NOCIRC Fall Update. San Anselmo, California, USA.