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* '''Jonathan Bernaerts''', {{BA}}, {{MA}}, is a Human Rights Researcher at the Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ), where he focuses on children’s rights. He holds BAs in Philosophy and Law from the {{UNI|University of Antwerp|UAntwerpen}} (Belgium), a {{MA}} degree in international law from the {{UNI|University of Antwerp|UAntwerpen}}, and a {{MA}} degree in comparative international law from the {{UNI|University of Toulouse|UToul}} (France). He was awarded the European Master Degree in Human Rights and Democratization by the {{UNI|European Inter University Centre|EIUC}} in Venice (Italy), for which he spent a semester at the {{UNI|University of Vienna|UniVie}} (Austria). His thesis on the circumcision of male children was written under the supervision of Manfred Nowak and Hannes Tretter. Kontich, Belgium.
* '''[[Gregory J. Boyle]]''', {{PhD}} (Delaware), {{PhD}} (Melbourne), {{DSc}} (Queensland{{AUSC|QLD}}), Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, was Professor of Psychology at {{UNI|Bond University|BOND}}, Gold Coast, Queensland{{AUSC|QLD}}, Australia for 20 years. Currently, he is Head of School at the Australian Institute of Psychology, based in Brisbane. In 2005, he was recipient of the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements Distinguished Reviewer Award. He has contributed over 200 publications, and is Senior Editor of several international handbooks in the fields of personality theory and assessment (SAGE Publishers; Elsevier/Academic Press). Currently, he is Senior Editor of the SAGE series on both cognitive neuroscience and on industrial/organizational psychology. Professor Boyle has lectured in many universities, including {{UNI|Oxford University|Oxon}}, {{UNI|Stanford University|SU}}, and {{UNI|Princeton University|PU}}. He also served as Associate Dean for Research at {{UNI|Bond University|BOND}} for several years, and as a Research Consultant to the Australian Army Psychology Corps (Hon Rank: LTCOL) for more than two decades. Professor Boyle has conducted empirical studies regarding the adverse psychosexual impact of infant male circumcision. More recently, his detailed [http://www.salem-news.com/fms/pdf/2011-12_JLM-Boyle-Hill.pdf critique] (with [[George Hill]], [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]]) of the serious methodological, ethical, and legal concerns relating to the African circumcision RCTs (published in the ''Journal of Law and Medicine'' in 2011), attained international prominence. Gold Coast, Queensland{{AUSC|QLD}}, Australia.
* '''Annie Brook''', {{PhD}}, LPC, is an author, international speaker, master therapist, and former university professor who has worked in clinics, hospitals, public schools, and in private practice. She supports community awareness and healing. Her work with men began in the late 1980‘s when she started men’s groups in rural locations where there were no male facilitators. Her professional background in infant development gives her keen insight on the impact of early experience on identity and behavior. She trains therapists in body-based therapy work that includes early attachment. Her training programs have male facilitators leading men’s work that is full spectrum and empowering, and includes the tender and outrageous work of recovering from circumcision imprints. She is a somatic psychologist, Registered Movement Educator, and Cranial Sacral practitioner with a Doctorate in Perinatal Psychology and Human Sexuality. She has authored, ''Birth’s Hidden Legacy, From Conception to Crawling'', and ''Sexuality and the Sacred''. Boulder, Colorado, USA.
* '''[[Brendon Marotta]]''' is an award-winning filmmaker. He graduated from the {{UNI|University of North Carolina|UNC}} School of the Arts Film School, and works as a professional film editor and director. His work can be found online at www.brendonmarotta.com. Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
* '''[[Paul Mason]]''', {{BA}} (Hons), LLB, is a family law barrister of 35 years experience. For 3½ years, from 2007 to 2010, he was the statutorily independent Commissioner for Children for the Australian State of Tasmania. During that time, amongst his other work, he pursued raising awareness of the [[human rights]] of children to protection from all forms of violence and from harmful traditional practices (HTPs). He, with Dr. Comfort Momoh, is an inaugural co-patron of the UK-based charity [[Genital Autonomy]] and in 2013 was instrumental in establishing the Antipodean child rights organisation, [[AIGA Inc.| Australasian Institute for Genital Autonomy Inc.]] (AIGA). Brisbane, Queensland{{AUSC|QLD}}, Australia.
* '''Jonathan Meddings''' has a degree in medical science with honors from {{UNI|James Cook University|JCU}} and is currently a student of philosophy at {{UNI|Macquarie University|MQAU}}. He is a member of ''Friends of Science in Medicine'', an organization campaigning against the teaching of the pseudoscience that is alternative/complementary medicine in Australian tertiary institutions, as well as a board member of the ''Rationalist Society of Australia'' and writer for the ''Young Australian Skeptics'', organizations devoted to the promotion of rational and skeptical thinking in all areas, including medicine. Jonathan is currently writing a book on circumcision. Melbourne, Australia.
* '''Teri Mitchell''', RNC, {{CNM}}, DNP, LCCE,{{IBCLC}}, a Registered Nurse certified in maternal newborn nursing for the last 10 years, is also a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator and an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She completed a Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree in midwifery at {{UNI|Baylor University|Baylor}} in May 2014 and is a certified nurse midwife. Her doctoral focus has been on parental decision making about routine infant circumcision, as well as the impact of tongue-tie on breastfeeding. She currently works as a nurse-midwife and lactation consultant at a freestanding birth center and home birth practice in Texas. Frisco, Texas, USA.
* '''Elwyn Moir''', {{BA}}, has worked in mental health for a decade. His practice principally concerns mood, self-concept, and [[suicide]] prevention, and provides clinical supervision and training. His work was recognised with the award of a National Emergency Medal in 2012. Elwyn’s nation-reaching advocacy has included published opinion pieces and long-form television appearances. He co-founded (with [[Paul Mason]] and others) the [[Australasian Institute for Genital Autonomy]] and, in addition to his clinical practice, is Secretary of the AIGA and a Master of Mental Health (Psychotherapy) candidate with the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the {{UNI|University of Queensland|UQ}}. Fortitude Valley, Queensland{{AUSC|QLD}}, Australia.
* '''[[Lisa Braver Moss]]''', {{BA}}, is a writer specializing in health, family issues, Judaism, and humor. Her work has appeared in the ''Huffington Post'', ''Tikkun'', and ''Parents''; she has also written several nonfiction books and an essay collection. Lisa is the author of two seminal articles addressing the problems inherent in Jewish circumcision, and was a speaker at the 2nd International Symposium on Circumcision. In 2010, Lisa published ''The Measure of His Grief'', the first novel ever written about male circumcision and foreskin restoration. Lisa is co-author of the new book ''Celebrating Brit Shalom''. She holds a {{BA}} in English from UC Berkeley. Piedmont, California, USA.