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* '''[[Frederick M. Hodges]]''', D Phil (Oxon), is a medical historian, the co-author of ''What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Circumcision: Untold Facts on America’s Most Widely Performed—and Most Unnecessary—Surgery'' (Warner Books 2002), and co-editor of the proceedings of the International Symposia on Circumcision, ''Human Rights, and Genital Integrity, Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy; Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice''; ''Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem''; ''Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society''; ''Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy and Change''; ''Circumcision and Human Rights; Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice''. Berkeley, California, USA.
* '''David J. Llewellyn''', JD, a graduate of the University of Virginia, is a trial lawyer with the firm of Johnson & Ward in Atlanta, Georgia, who has fifteen years’ experience litigating wrongful circumcision, circumcision damage, and related cases in federal and state courts throughout the United States and Canada with regard to the problem of neonatal male circumcision. A majority of his practice consists of genital injury litigation. Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
* '''James Loewen''' is a photographer, videographer, and intactivist. Since 1993, his work has been increasingly focused on ending the genital mutilation of infants and children. His videotaped interviews can be seen at Bonobo3D on Youtube. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
* Gillian Longley, RN, BSN, MSS, the mother of two grown intact sons, is a registered nurse with 11 years experience in newborn nursery and neonatal intensive care. For the last five years, she has been co-coordinator of NOCIRC of Colorado. Her recent master’s degree research was a content analysis of how parent circumcision handouts present the alternative of not circumcising. Boulder, Colorado, USA.
* Paul Mason, JD, was appointed Commissioner for Children for the Australian State of Tasmanian in 2007. The Commissioner is a State appointment independent of the elected government of the day and responsible for advising government about all matters concerning the health, welfare, development, education of children and their protection from all forms of abuse and neglect. His other primary function is to raise public awareness about these matters. Before that, he had three decades’ experience working in all areas of family law, including complex parenting and child protection cases, both as a solicitor and barrister across Australia. He is deeply committed to the human rights of children and a strong believer in their capacity to make valuable contributions to all decisions affecting their welfare and development. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
* '''[[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.
* '''Mark D. Reiss''', MD, a retired radiologist, graduated in the first class of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, is an active member of a Conservative synagogue, originator of Celebrants of Brit Shalom, and the Executive Vice President of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] (D.O.C.). San Francisco, California, USA.
* '''Maria Chiara Turrini''', PhD, is a researcher in applied geology (Engineering Geology) at Ferrara University. Thanks to her experience, she, along with friends and students, has helped create a volunteer association, ''Water for Life''. Headquartered in Ferrara since its founding in 2002, the association has worked in Somalia in close collaboration with the Homonymous Association of Trento. The associations are working together with a Somali community in Ayuub village, near the town of Merka, on projects of agriculture, education, and empowerment of women. Ferrara, Italy.