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* '''[[Peter W. Adler]]''', {{BA}}, Philosophy, Dartmouth College; {{MA}}, Philosophy, {{UNI|Cambridge University|UCam}}; {{JD}}, {{UNI|University of Virginia|UVA}} School of Law; and Editor of ''Virginia Law Review'', is a former trial lawyer and is the Legal Advisor for [[Attorneys for the Rights of the Child]]. His publications include “''Is Circumcision Legal?''”, “''Is It Lawful to Use Medicaid to Pay for Circumcision?''”, and “''Is Circumcision Unethical and Should It Be Illegal?''”, co-authored with Svoboda and [[Robert S. Van Howe|Van Howe]], publication pending. Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA.
* '''Jennifer Andersen''' is a speaker, writer, blogger, child advocate, and the founder of OurMuddyBoots.com, LIVING! With Kids. Through her work, Jennifer explores the things that keep us disconnected from our children, so that we can reconnect and know them more fully. Most importantly, Jennifer advocates for children—hoping to inspire others to understand that children are people—fully deserving of the same kindness, compassion, and [[human rights ]] as their adult counterparts. A guest on HuffPost Live, speaker at parenting conferences, and contributor to publications both online and in print, Jennifer’s work focuses on bringing to light the specific ways children are dehumanized−and solutions for changing this. Denver, Colorado, USA.
* '''Scot Anderson''', BSc, received his degree in physics from the Colorado School of Mines and is a practicing physicist working in industry doing analysis. He has many interests, including [[human rights]], and he is active in supporting Colorado NOCIRC. He is otherwise unaffiliated within the medical profession. Conifer, Colorado, USA.
* '''[[Kira Antinuk]]''', one of the founders and acting Directors of the [[Children’s Health & Human Rights Partnership]], has been a children’s rights advocate for more than 10 years. She is the recipient of the ''2013 Paul Wainwright Nursing Ethics Prize'', awarded in recognition of her paper “Forced genital cutting in North America: Feminist theory & nursing considerations”, published in the ''Journal of Nursing Ethics''(September 2013). Kira received her training as a nurse in Victoria, BC, where she currently lives with her partner and two children. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
* '''Riun Ashlie''' is a somatic healing practitioner, workshop facilitator, men’s group leader, and currently an intern at Colorado Therapies and Aquatic Center. A graduate of Body Mind Somanautics, an advanced training in somatic attachment, group process, and anatomy re-patterning, and a graduate of the Hendricks Institute 2-year Leadership and Transformation Coaching Program, Riun combines a variety of modalities, including Access Consciousness as well as Re-connective Healing in support of his passion−catalyzing male potency and empowerment with passion and purpose.
* '''Markus Bauer''' is the co-founder and campaign organiser of the international [[human rights ]] NGO Zwischengeschlecht.org / StopIGM.org and legally responsible for their online presence. He is the partner of an intersex person, and a decade-long writer, editor, performing artist, political activist, and social organiser. Since 2007, he facilitated countless nonviolent intersex protests in front of mutilators’ clinics and medical congresses, as well as parliamentary motions, submissions, and testimonies for ethics and [[human rights ]] bodies. He has spoken and published internationally on IGM at universities and symposia, and appeared on radio and television, and in newspapers and magazines, including the ''Wall Street Journal''. Zurich, Switzerland.
* '''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.
* '''[[Glen Callender]]''' is a Vancouver-based writer, editor and performance artist. In 2010, he founded the [[Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project]] (CAN-FAP)—Canada’s best-known and feistiest pro-foreskin advocacy group—to promote his vision of a more positive [[genital autonomy]] movement that emphasizes pro-foreskin over anti-circumcision messaging. Glen has performed his educational-comedy foreskin shows ''Foreskin Awareness Booth'' and ''The Revolution Will Not Be Circumcised'' to thousands of people across Canada and the USA, and is developing a multimedia guide to the intact penis that he hopes will revolutionize society’s understanding of, and respect for, the male organ. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
* '''Charli Carpenter''' is Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Political Science at {{UNI|University of Massachusetts-Amherst|UMass}}. Her teaching and research interests include [[human rights ]] and humanitarian action, agenda-setting in transnational advocacy networks, and gender violence. She is particularly interested in why some human security problems and vulnerable populations get less attention on the global agenda than others. She has published three books and numerous journal articles, has served as a consultant for the United Nations, and contributes to Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. Her most recent book, Agenda-Vetting in Global Networks and the Shaping of Human Security, includes a case study of the transnational campaign against infant male circumcision. Amherst, MA, USA.
* '''[[Georganne Chapin]]''', {{JD}}, MS, an attorney and healthcare executive, is the founding Executive Director of Intact America. She also holds positions at Hudson Health Plan (President & CEO) and MVP Health Care (Executive Vice President for Corporate Affairs), both located in New York State, and serves as an officer on the board of [[Attorneys for the Rights of the Child]]. Georganne holds an undergraduate degree in anthropology from Barnard College, a Masters in Sociomedical Sciences from {{UNI|Columbia University|CUNY}}, and a {{JD}} from {{UNI|Pace University|Pace}} School of Law, where she has also served as adjunct faculty, teaching courses in Bioethics and Medicaid and Disability Law. Woodstock, New York, USA.
*'''M. Thomas Fredericksen''', is a machinist and tool maker who studies engineering. His four-fold circumcision experience is: He considers his circumcision at birth a sexual assault. He’s restored his [[foreskin]]. Unlike most doctors, he has studied [[foreskin restoration]] extensively. He has sought psychological help, which was a grueling ordeal. Clearwater, Florida, 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 the full-time pro bono Director and General Counsel for [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]], an international physicians’ charity based in Seattle, Washington. [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)|D.O.C.]]’s members and supporters oppose cultural, non-therapeutic genital cutting of children, male or female, on [[human rights ]] and scientific 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, Washington, USA.
* '''[[Ronald Goldman]]''', {{PhD}}, is a psychologist, speaker, writer, and Executive Director of the Circumcision Resource Center in Boston, a nonprofit educational organization. His investigation of the unacknowledged adverse psychological and social aspects of circumcision includes hundreds of contacts with men, parents, Jews, and medical and mental health professionals. He is the author of ''Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma'' and ''Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective''. Other writing has appeared in medical journals, national newspapers, parenting publications, and Jewish periodicals. He participates in numerous media interviews, gives lectures on circumcision, perinatal health and childcare practices, and counsels parents and circumcised men. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
* '''[[David J. Llewellyn]]''', {{BA}}, {{JD}}, is an attorney whose practice is concentrated in genital injury litigation. He has represented numerous victims of botched circumcisions, both infant and adult, as well as victims of circumcisions performed without consent. He has also represented a number of parents who filed suits to prevent the circumcisions of their sons. He has extensive experience representing the victims of the most common forms of negligently performed circumcisions. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
* '''Donna Rigney Macris''', {{RN}}, {{CNM}}, MSN, CLNC, is a decades-long [[human rights ]] activist in issues of [[genital integrity]] who has served on the Board of Directors of NOCIRC, was a co-founder of the International Symposia on Circumcision, and co-authored the ''[[Declaration of the First International Symposium on Circumcision (1989)| Declaration of the First International Symposium on Circumcision]]''. Her writings on the issue of circumcision and the rights of infants and children as well as on the normal function of the male genitalia have been published. She has spoken nationally and internationally promoting conscious objector status for nurses and midwives in opposition to newborn circumcision. She has been guest faculty in midwifery programs, including {{UNI|Stanford University|SU}}’s ''Women’s Health Care Training Project''. Her Master’s Degree Research at {{UNI|St. Louis University|SLU}} centered upon informed consent for circumcision. Fresno, California, USA.
* '''Jennifer Margulis''', {{PhD}}, is an award-winning investigative journalist and a senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at {{UNI|Brandeis University|Brandeis}}. She is the author of the groundbreaking exposé, ''The Business of Baby''. Ashland, Oregon, 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, 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.
* '''[[Marilyn Milos]]''', {{RN}}, is the co-founder and director of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC) and co-founder of the International Symposia on Circumcision, Genital Autonomy, and Children’s Rights. She is the co-editor of eight symposia books and the editor of the NOCIRC Annual Newsletter. San Anselmo, California, USA.
* '''[[Soraya Miré]]''' is an award-winning director, writer, and activist. Her credits include a featured segment of the ''Vagina Monologues'' on FGM and the award-winning documentary ''Fire Eyes'', which highlights the barbaric practice of FGM. Fire Eyes was featured at the International Women’s Conference in Beijing, the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, the Sundance Film Festival in the USA, and The United Nations in Geneva. Miré’s activism has been recognized with many awards, such as the “Humanitarian Award” at the United Nations Sub-Commission Sessions, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice “Winnie Mandela Award,” “Best documentary” at the United Nations International Conference on Population and Devel-opment in Cairo, the “Human Rights Award” at the Third International Symposium on Circumcision at the {{UNI|University of Maryland|UMD}}, and Intact America’s “Personal Courage Award 2009.” She was born in Somalia and immigrated to Europe in 1978 at age 17. She studied literature and political science at the {{UNI|University of Grenoble|UGA}} in France. Mire’ left her studies to expand her mission to end violence toward women and children. In 1984, Miré moved to Los Angeles and began a career in film. She appeared on the ''Oprah Winfrey Show'', CNN, and ''Nightline'' with Ted Koppel. She has lectured at numerous universities, including {{UNI|Harvard|HU}}, {{UNI|UCLA|UCLA}}, {{UNI|Vanderbilt University|Vandy}}, and {{UNI|Stanford University|SU}}. She has stood before committees at the United Nations, the US Senate Human Resources and Health Assembly, and the World Health Organization. She has worked with medical professionals, government officials, with women, and with families who have been affected by FGM, all in her tireless pursuit of protection of [[human rights ]] for women and girls. Los Angeles, California, USA.
* '''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.
* Registration – tea & coffee
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* Intactivism and [[human rights ]] ‘gate-keeping’: Agenda-setting and agenda-vetting in transnational [[human rights ]] networks<br>
::''Charli Carpenter''
* The business of circumcision<br>