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* '''[[Brother K]]''' was born in Miami in 1947 and grew up in New Orleans. He studied journalism at the University of Illinois, where he earned his degree in 1969. He protested against circumcision at the California State Capital in 1980, a protest that the Associated Press and other media reported locally and across the nation. In 1986, he changed his name to Brother K in California Superior Court, an act of protest against his circumcision at birth. He formed [[Bloodstained Men]] in 2012 and has protested in cities from coast to coast. Davis, California, USA.
* '''[[Antony Lempert]]''', MB, BS, MRCGP, qualified as a doctor from King’s College, London in 1990. Since 1999, he has worked as a primary care physician (GP) in a rural UK practice. For the past ten years, he has also coordinated and chaired the Secular Medical Forum (SMF), which in 2017 integrated with the (UK) National Secular Society. The SMF campaigns to protect people from the harmful imposition on them of other people’s personal religious beliefs. Antony chairs the Shropshire division of the British Medical Association (BMA) and since 2009 has attended the BMA Annual Representatives Meeting where he has spoken several times about ritual genital cutting. As an invited representative of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), Antony met with the chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva in 2012 to discuss ritual circumcision. He appears regularly on radio, television, and in printed media. Antony lives in England with his wife and two teenage children, working as a GP just over the border in Wales. Shropshire, UK.
* '''[[David J. Llewellyn]]''', BA, JD, is a trial lawyer who has practiced law for 38 years. Since 1995, David regularly has represented the victims of genital injury. He has extensive experience representing the victims of the most common forms of negligently performed circumcisions. David also has represented a number of parents who filed suits to prevent the circumcision of their sons. David has appeared "[https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Pro+Hac+Vice pro hac vice]" in courts in almost one-half of the United States. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
* '''[[Lisa Braver Moss]]''' is a writer specializing in family issues, health, Judaism, and humor. Her essays have appeared in the ''Huffington Post'', ''Tikkun'', ''Parents'', ''Lilith'', ''Jewish Journal'', and other publications. She is the author of ''The Measure of His Grief'' (Notim Press, 2010), the first novel ever written about the circumcision controversy. She is co-author, with Rebecca Wald, of ''Celebrating Brit Shalom'' (Notim Press, 2015), the first-ever book of ceremonies and music for Jewish families opting out of circumcision. Lisa also conceived and spearheaded the movement toward open inclusion of ''brit shalom'' families in Jewish life. Piedmont, California, USA.
* '''[[Audra Berger ]] − Ms. Blu''' is a prolific singer and song-writer who puts “storytelling” to music. A music and nightclub prodigy at the age of twelve, Ms. Blu rides on the Intact America New York Pride Parade float and sings for the babies and children, helping to bring awareness about their right to bodily integrity and genital autonomy. New York, New York, USA.
* '''[[Mark D. Reiss]]''', MD, is the Executive Vice-President of Doctors Opposing Circumcision. In addition to wife, family, and San Francisco, Dr. Reiss has made genital autonomy a high priority in his life. He is the founder and administrator of Celebrants of Brit Shalom, a web-based site listing rabbis, cantors, and lay leaders who will replace the traditional ''bris'' with a non-cutting ceremony. In his spare time, he is a concert pianist. San Francisco, California, USA.
* '''Emily Rumsey''' and '''Emily Fitzgerald''' are midwives who provide clinical care to women as well as media producers who use digital media to provide health education to families. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
* '''[[Lloyd Schofield]]''' was the proponent for the ''San Francisco Male Genital Mutilation Initiative'', which gathered nearly double the amount of valid signatures required to be placed on the 2011 ballot in the City and County of San Francisco. The initiative's signature-gathering process and placement on the ballot generated an enormous amount of international publicity and facilitated a worldwide discussion that had not been previously possible. Lloyd is currently the President of the [[Bay Area Intactivists]], a grassroots 501(c)(3) charitable organization, which works to protect and defend the genital autonomy of all individuals − male, female and intersex − by sponsoring and participating in events that expand visibility and work together with other human rights organizations. Lloyd presented a tribute to Jonathon Conte at the Keele Symposium in September 2016. San Francisco, California, USA.
* '''Steve Scott''', as the Education Outreach Coordinator for NOCIRC, produced multi-media presentations for healthcare providers and public education forums. He organized the world premiere of ''The Nurses of St Vincent Say No to Circumcision''. Steve has presented at national and international conferences on the topic of circumcision and is a regular guest speaker for the Department of Human Sexuality at the University of Utah and the Department of Ethics at Utah Valley University. He directed the production of the video, The Prepuce, and authored, "Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Prepuce," in ''Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice''(Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press 1999), the proceedings of the [[Fifth International Symposium]] on Sexual Mutilations. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
* '''[[J. Steven Svoboda ]]''' holds a Master’s Degree in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley and graduated with honors from Harvard Law School. He is Executive Director of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, which he founded in 1997, and he has presented to the United Nations on male circumcision. In 2013, he debated Michael Brady of the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding the legality and ethics of male circumcision, unofficially winning the debate. His articles regarding children’s right to bodily autonomy have appeared in the ''Journal of Medical Ethics'', ''Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine'', ''Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics'', ''American Medical Association Journal of Ethics'', and ''American Journal of Bioethics''. Berkeley, California, USA.
* '''Hida Viloria''' is the founding director of the Intersex Campaign for Equality (IC4E) and one of the world’s foremost intersex and non-binary activists, a frequent consultant (UN, Lambda Legal, Human Rights Watch), speaker (Columbia, Princeton, Stanford, NYU...), television and radio guest (''Oprah'', ''Aljazeera'', ''20/20'', ''NPR'', ''BBC''...), and one of the most extensively published writers in the field (''The Huffington Post'', ''The Daily Beast'', ''The Advocate'', ''The American Journal of Bioethics'', CNN.com, Ms...). In 2017 she became the recipient of the nation’s second intersex birth certificate, and he/r memoir ''Born Both: An Intersex Life'' (Hachette Books) was released to praise by ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''NPR'', ''Psychology Today'', ''People'', and more. Follow Viloria online at hidaviloria.com, or @hidaviloria on Facebook and Twitter. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
* '''[[Jen Williams ]]''' is the founder and director of [[Your Whole Baby]]. She got her start in activism during her college years, when she formed an animal rights group on the campus of Texas A&M University. After graduation, she worked for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) in the Vegan Outreach department. Jen later pursued her teaching certification and taught middle school and high school English for seven years before becoming a stay-at-home/homeschooling mom. When her daughter was a year old, a friend got her involved in advocating for genital autonomy. As she traveled down the rabbit hole of knowledge, her passion for the topic grew, as did her desire to create a one-stop website for activists and researching parents. With the support of a friend, Jen created ''YourWholeBaby.org'' in December of 2014. Since that time, the organization has expanded to social media, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The need to appeal to college-age students led to the creation of the sibling site YWB101.org/YourWholeBody.org. In 2016, Your Whole Baby’s website had approximately 118,000 visitors. In 2017, the reach was over 313,000. Jen looks forward to a future where all children are protected from genital cutting, and hopes that this growing organization will help make that a reality. Leaner, Texas, USA.
* '''Ashley Trueman''', BS, MS, MCert Philosophy, Director of Education with [[Your Whole Baby]], developed “The Foreskin and Circumcision: Facts you need to know to make an informed decision”, a two-hour class curriculum for expectant parents, which she presented at the 13th International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights. To date, her presentation to more than 300 couples has a 100% success rate for saving boys from circumcision. Circumcision first got on Ashley’s radar when a baby died shortly after his circumcision at a pediatric office where she worked as an undergraduate student. Many years later, her office shared a wall with the “circumcision room” of a pediatrician/mohel and that’s what drove her to activism and eventually back to school to study bioethics. Ashley began her bioethics training at Georgetown University before moving to England to study philosophy with a focus in bioethics at Oxford University. She also holds degrees from Arizona State University and Tulane University. New Haven, Connecticut.
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