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* '''[[Georganne Chapin]]''', {{JD}}, is the founding Executive Director of [[Intact America]] (IA), and the President and CEO of Hudson Health Plan and the Hudson Center for Health Equity and Quality – all not-for-profit organizations based in Tarrytown, NY. She holds a {{BA}} in anthropology from Barnard College, an MPhil in sociomedical sciences from {{UNI|Columbia University|CUNY}}, and a {{JD}} from {{UNI|Pace University|Pace}} School of Law, where she has taught health law and bioethics. She is also a Board member of [[Attorneys for the Rights of the Child]]. As Executive Director of IA, Georganne has been quoted widely in the press, has been featured on many radio shows – local, national, and abroad – and has appeared on national television (MSNBC, NBC’s Today Show, and FOX News). Tarrytown, {{USSC|NY}}, USA.
* '''[[George C. Denniston| George Denniston]]''', {{MD}}, received his degree from {{UNI|Princeton University|PU}}, his {{MPH}} from Harvard School of Public Health, is the founder of [[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] (D.O.C.)]], and the co-author of ''Doctors Re-Examine Circumcision''. He is 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''; and ''Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice''. He is Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, {{UNI|University of Washington|UW}}. Seattle, {{USSC|WA}}, USA.
* '''Erika Dionisio''' is a graduating student in the Department of Applied Psychology, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}. She was involved in a field qualitative research on genital modifications in the Venda region in South Africa, and she collected data on body image from South African students. Padua, Italy.
* '''Pia Grassivaro Gallo''', {{PhD}}, Associate Professor of Anthropology, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}’s Psychology Faculty, and former teacher of Applied Biology, Human Genetics, and Anthropogenetics. Her research on the biology of current human populations has taken place in several developing countries, particularly Somalia (from 1972 to 1985). At the invitation of the Somali Ministry of Public Health (1981), she was invited to take part in a scientific mission to Somaliland. Since 1988, she has been responsible for the Padua Working Group on FGM, dealing with African immigrants in Italy. Since 2000, she has studied the expansive forms of the traditional interventions on female genitalia, carrying out field research in Central Africa (Uganda, Malawi, and Congo RDC). She was co-coordinator of the VIIIth International Symposium on Circumcision and Human Rights. Padua, Italy.
* '''[[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.
* '''Antonio Iaria''', is former director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Santa Maria della Pietà in Rome and has been responsible for the Transcultural Psychiatric Group, which also works in Rome. He has worked in Somalia for several years at the Faculty of Medicine of the {{UNI|Somali National University|SNU}}. He was co-founder, with Professor Grassivaro Gallo, of the Padua Working Group on FGM, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}. Padua, Italy.
* '''Elizabeth Reis''', {{PhD}}, is associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and History at the {{UNI|University of Oregon|UOregon}}. She is the author of ''Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex'' ([[Johns Hopkins University]] Press, 2009) and ''Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England''(Cornell, 1997). She received her {{PhD}} in history from the {{UNI|University of California, Berkeley|UCBE}}. Eugene, {{USSC|OR}}, USA.
* '''[[Mark D. Reiss]]''', {{MD}}, a retired radiologist, graduated in the first class of Albert Einstein College of Medicine of {{UNI|Yeshiva University|Yeshiva}}, 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, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
* '''Hatem Kamal Saied''', BSc, Graduate Diploma, {{MS}} Science, physics and IT, {{UNI|Alexandria University|AlexU}}, is the founder of the first Arabic online society opposing MGM. Alexandria, Egypt.