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* '''[[Dan Bollinger]]''' has been working on men’s rights issues since college. He facilitated a men’s weekend workshop for many years. Formerly the director of the [[International Coalition for Genital Integrity]], for the past 21 years Dan has focused his efforts on [[Intactivism]] and, lately, exclusively with [[Intact America]]. He was a member of Intact America’s founding committee, and serves as its volunteer strategy advisor. Dan has authored many articles and essays on men’s rights, psychology, and strategy, all concerning Intactivism. His contributions to the cause include photography, website design, graphic design, speaking, scientific research, and making demonstration devices. He has contributed to many intactivist websites and created the [[Circumcision Decision-Maker]] website. Dan has an Industrial Design degree with a minor in psychology. He lives with his beloved wife Rebecca “On the Banks of the Wabash.” Lafayette, {{USSC|IN}}, USA.
* '''Trish Causey''' shares intact men's experiences to show why keeping the [[foreskin]] intact is crucial to a man's health and happiness. She has learned from intact men their experiences of being whole in cutting cultures. As more and more boys are left intact, our cutting societies have yet to make being intact “socially acceptable” in our culture, media, and medical environments. As a sexual health advocate, Trish's [[intactivism]] is informed not only as a [[human rights ]] activist and feminist, with a steadfast stance on body autonomy and self-determination, but also her personal experience of painful sex and an inability to orgasm with circumcised men. New York, {{USSC|NY}}, USA.
* '''[[Georganne Chapin]]''' is founding executive director of [[Intact America]]. For 25 years, she served as President and CEO of Hudson Health Plan, an innovative nonprofit health plan for low-income New Yorkers. In 2005, she founded the Hudson Center for Health Equity & Quality, a health policy and technology organization that she still leads, and that helps to support Intact America through its 501(c)(3) status. Georganne has written and spoken widely about social justice, healthcare reform, and bioethical issues. She is frequently quoted in the press, and has been interviewed on television, radio, and the Web in the United States and abroad. She holds a {{BA}} in Anthropology from Barnard College, {{MA}} and MPhil degrees in Sociomedical Sciences from {{UNI|Columbia University|CUNY}}, and a {{JD}} with certificates in Health and International Law from {{UNI|Pace University|PACE}} Law School. She has taught as an adjunct professor of law at Pace, and adjunct professor of bioethics to doctoral students at Dominican College School of Nursing. Woodstock, {{USSC|NY}}, USA.
* '''[[Brian Earp]]''' is Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at {{UNI|Yale University|Yale}} and the Hastings Center Bioethics Research Institute, and a Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the {{UNI|University of Oxford|Oxon}}. With degrees from Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge universities, his work is cross-disciplinary, following training in gender and sexuality, philosophy, psychology, history and sociology of science and medicine, and ethics. His research has been cited in the US President’s Commission on Bioethics and in a landmark British high court case concerning "Female Genital Mutilation" (FGM) by Sir James Munby (in the matter of B and G). In 2016, he was invited by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences to serve as one of a small group of “high-level experts” reporting to the Dutch government on research methods and quality control in science and medicine; he later served as a peer reviewer on the final report. He was also invited to submit materials based on his work on female and male genital cutting to a special committee of the European Parliament; this work has now been published as part of a monograph series produced by the same. Other scholarly highlights include serving as Guest Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics for a special issue on circumcision; serving as Guest Editor for the Medical Law Review for a special issue on regulating sexual boundaries; authoring a forthcoming book on male, female, and intersex genital cutting for {{UNI|Chicago University|UChicago}} Press; and publishing more than 20 peer-reviewed essays or book chapters on the science and ethics of childhood genital cutting, including an in-depth analysis of the 2008 WHO/UN policy on "FGM" in the ''Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal'', whose editor devoted a special issue to the article, with invited responses from leading experts. Brian currently serves as Associate Editor of the ''Journal of Medical Ethics'', Associate Editor for the ''Yale Journal of Law & Humanities'', Ethics Editor for the ''Journal of Clinical and Translational Research'', and sits on the Board of Editorial Consultants for ''Public Affairs Quarterly''. New Haven, {{USSC|CT}}, USA.
* '''[[John V. Geisheker]]''', {{JD}}, {{LLM}}, has practiced medico-legal law as an arbitrator, mediator, litigator, and law lecturer for over 30 years. He is currently the full-time pro bono Director and General Counsel for Doctors Opposing Circumcision, an international physicians’ charity based in Seattle, Washington. D.O.C.’s members and supporters oppose merely cultural, non-therapeutic, genital cutting of children – male, female, or intersex – on [[human rights’ rights]]’ grounds.John is a native of [[New Zealand]], a country that fully abandoned medicalized male circumcision in the 1960's. He hopes his adopted USA will someday follow that principled example. Seattle, {{USSC|WA}}, USA.
* '''[[Brother K]]''' was born in Miami in 1947 and grew up in New Orleans. He studied journalism at the {{UNI|University of Illinois|UIC}}, 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, {{USSC|CA}}, 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, {{USSC|MN}}, 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, {{USSC|CA}}, 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 {{UNI|University of Utah|UofU}} and the Department of Ethics at {{UNI|Utah Valley University|UVU}}. 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, {{USSC|UT}}, USA.