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* '''[[Christopher Fletcher]]''', {{MD}}, is a family physician in Santa Fe, NM, who graduated cum laude from Harvard College, has an {{MD}} from the {{UNI|University of Texas Southwestern Medical|UTSW}} School in Dallas, and residency training in the {{UNI|University of Massachusetts|UMass}} Medical Center Family Practice Residency Program. He has been in public and private practice in New Mexico since 1981, is an assistant clinical professor of family and community medicine at the {{UNI|University of New Mexico|UNM}} School of Medicine, and has a long-term interest in circumcision issues, having not performed one since 1981 and having left his own sons intact. He takes pride in being a supporter of the nurses who founded Nurses for the Rights of the Child at St. Vincent Hospital. He has delivered over a thousand babies and with aggressive but supportive and caring education of parents was able to prevent all but 10 of the boys he delivered from being circumcised. Santa Fe, {{USSC|NM}}, USA.

* '''[[John V. Geisheker]]''', {{JD}}, a native of New Zealand, is the Executive Director of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]], an international non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington. As Director of D.O.C., he appears at medical and childbirth conventions, as well as educational institutions, presenting on the medical science and bioethics of merely cultural, non-therapeutic infant genital surgeries. He is the author of numerous publications on the subject. A law professor by education, he has been a litigator, law lecturer, arbitrator, and mediator, specializing in medical disputes for 27 years. Most recently, he and D.O.C. successfully defended Misha Boldt, a 14-year-old facing an involuntary religious conversion, including non-therapeutic circumcision, a cause that was eventually appealed to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Geisheker is proud that, in the 1960s, his native [[New Zealand]] fully abandoned medicalized infant circumcision as unethical and unnecessary. Seattle, {{USSC|WA}}, USA.

* '''Charles Geshekter''', {{PhD}}, Professor Emeritus of African history at {{UNI|California State University|CSU}}, Chico, earned his {{PhD}} in history from UCLA and received numerous grants for his African field research. His writings examine modern Somali history, techniques of documentary film making, and reappraising [[AIDS]] in Africa. Geshekter established the Somali Studies International Association and coordinated its first conference in Mogadishu (1980). In 1985, he produced a PBS documentary, “The Parching Winds of Somalia” for WQED-TV. During the UN intervention in Somalia (1992-95), Geshekter was news analyst for CBS National Radio Network, KRON-TV/San Francisco, and PBS. Geshek-ter coordinated the program for the 1989 Meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science/Pacific Division. From 1991-95, he chaired its History of Science Section and served on its Executive Council. In 1995-96, he was Chief Policy Advisor on Education Finance for the California State Assembly. He has served as a consultant and researcher on African immigration issues for the Department of Justice. Geshekter was a member of the South African Presidential [[AIDS]] Advisory Panel (2000-03). Chico, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.

* '''[[David J. Llewellyn]]''', {{JD}}, a graduate of the {{UNI|University of Virginia|UVA}}, 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, {{USSC|GA}}, USA.

* '''[[Gillian Longley]]''', {{RN}}, {{BScN}}, {{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, {{USSC|CO}}, USA.

* '''[[Robert S. Van Howe]]''', {{MD}}, MS, graduated from Loyola-Stritch School of Medicine, completed a pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and received a Masters of Science in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis from the {{UNI|University of Michigan|UMICH}} School of Public Health. He is a Clinical Professor at {{UNI|Michigan State University|MISU}} College of Human Medicine and a full-time pediatrician for Bell Memorial Hospital in Ishpeming, Michigan. Dr. [[Robert S. Van Howe|Van Howe]] has researched and published extensively on neonatal circumcision. He has lectured worldwide and provided expert testimony in court cases involving circumcision. His goal is to provide an evidence-based and scientific appraisal of the medical literature on this topic. He is considered a leading expert on neonatal circumcision, which led to his being a consultant for the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Marquette, {{USSC|MI}}, USA.

* '''Astrik Vardanyan''', {{BA}}, {{MA}}, received her {{BA}} in English linguistics and literature from the Institute of Foreign Languages, Yerevan, Armenia, in 1996, and her master’s degree in anthropology at {{UNI|California State University|CSU}}, Northridge. She is a recipient of the McArthur scholarship in journalism, a fellowship at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in Chicago, Illinois, where she published articles on social and environmental issues. Her recent interests are cross-cultural child-rearing practices. She is an advocate of [[genital integrity]] for boys and girls, prolonged breastfeeding, co-sleeping, and natural birth. Vardanyan is inclined toward action or advocacy anthropology and employs her research to out-reach the general public through media, seminars, and small group and individual talks. Northridge, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.

* '''David Wilton''', {{JD}}, received his undergraduate degree from the {{UNI|University of Texas at El Paso|UTEP}} and his law degree from the South Texas College of Law. He has a long-standing interest in issues of body integrity and [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]]. He blogs at Male Circumcision and [[HIV]] (www.circumcisionandhiv.com) while maintaining a full-time law practice specializing in criminal defense. His primary interests, outside of nurturing a debate on the controversial measure of removing sexual tissue to reduce the spread of [[HIV]], are in the areas of criminal justice, languages, and journalism. San Francisco, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.

: ''Frederick M. Hodges''

* Genital Stretching Among the Venda Ethnic Group in South Africa

* Women from Timan Adde (Merka‑Somalia) Pray to Allah in Order to be Freed from Pharaonic Circumcision/[[Infibulation]]

* Possession Ritual and Somalian Pharaonic Circumcision Culture

* Female Genital Mutilation and the Amelioration of Complex Trauma through Relational Attunement

: ''Patricia D. Raya''

* Male Circumcision Among the Venda of Limpopo (South Africa)

* Penile Wounding: The Spectrum of Complications of Routine Male Circumcision as Seen in a Typical American Family Medical Practice

: ''Christopher Fletcher''