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* '''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.
* '''Dean Edell''', {{MD}}, received his medical degree from {{UNI|Cornell University|CU}}. He is known for his candid straight talk on radio and television, translating complicated medical information into concise, easy-to-understand reports, and for tackling topics that are obscure, unusual, and often controversial. As one of the first media doctors, he knows the dangers of distorted medical reporting. Dr. Edell sorts through the morass of research, distinguishing fact from fiction. He has been outspoken on the issue of [[circumcision]] and promoted [[genital integrity ]] since 1982. San Francisco, California, USA.
* '''[[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, New Mexico, USA.
* '''[[Soraya Miré]]''' was born in Somalia, immigrated to Europe at age 17, and studied literature and political science at the {{UNI|University of Grenoble|UGA}}. In 1984, Miré moved to Los Angeles to begin a film career. She is an award-winning director, writer, and activist. Her segment on FGM was featured in the Vagina Monologues and her documentary, Fire Eyes, which highlights the barbaric practice of FGM, 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 Utah, and the United Nations in Geneva. Miré has received numerous awards, including the “Humanitarian Award” (United Nations Sub-Commission Sessions), “Winnie Mandela Award” (John Jay College of Criminal Justice), “Best Documentary” (United Nations International Conference on Population and Development), “Human Rights Award” (International Symposia on Circumcision), and Intact America’s “Personal Courage Award 2009.” She has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, and Nightline with Ted Koppel. She lectures at colleges and universities and has stood before committees at the UN, US Senate Human Resources and Health Assembly, and the World Health Organization. She works with medical professionals, government officials, and women and families who have been affected by FGM, persistently protecting human rights. Los Angeles, California, USA.
* '''Miriam Pollack''', an educator in private practice, has been advocating for [[genital integrity ]] for Jewish as well as non-Jewish baby boys for the past 19 years by writing, speaking, counseling Jewish parents, and providing alternative brit b’lee milah ceremonies for interested parents. Her article, “Circumcision: A Jewish Feminist Perspective,” was published in Jewish Women Speak Out: Expanding the Boundaries of Psychotherapy (Canopy Press, 1995), her paper, “Circumcision: Redefining the Sacred,” was published in ''Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy'' (New York and London: Plenum Press, 1997), and her paper, “Circumcision: If It Isn’t Ethical, Can It Be Spiritual?,” was published in ''Circumcision and Human Rights'' (2009). She appeared in the documentary, Whose Body, Whose Rights? Boulder, Colorado, USA.
* '''Clare Puskarczyk''' received her {{MA}} in Consciousness Studies at {{UNI|John F. Kennedy University|JFKU}} in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a {{PhD}} candidate in Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, with a focus on Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness. Her primary interest has been the consciousness of children. Denver, Colorado, 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.
* '''Dolores Sangiuliano''', {{RN}}, an active member of NOCIRC of Colorado, has been an intactivist for 24 years and a registered nurse for 20 years. She works primarily with psychiatric and detox populations. She is a devoted mother of five, and is currently working on a baccalaureate in nursing with the intention of infiltrating academia and the nursing profession with the [[genital integrity ]] message. Boulder, Colorado, USA.
* '''[[David Smith]]''' was educated at St. Joseph’s College, Market Drayton, and he qualified in business studies at Underwood College. He worked for Re-Solv, a solvent abuse charity, and is currently General Manager of NORM-UK, a charity dedicated to giving men a choice. He created and now edits NORM NEWS, the organization’s magazine for members and concerned individuals. Stone, Staffordshire, UK.
* '''Franco Viviani''', {{PhD}}, a physical anthropologist, is professor of anthropology applied to psychology at the Department of Applied Psychology, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}. He has been involved with studies about FGM and, as the director of NOCIRC of Italy, on studies about male circumcision. He has published scientific papers and articles on these topics and has presented some of his research in the popular media.
* '''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, California, USA.
* '''[[B. Maurene White]]''', {{RN}}, graduated from Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing in 1962 and received a {{BTh}} in 1988, a {{DipEd}} in 1991, and a {{BA}} (medical anthropology) in 1997 from {{UNI|McGill University|McGill}}. She has worked in different areas of nursing, with special interest in perinatality and outpost work as a nurse practitioner in northern Canada. She currently does private case nursing, consulting, and has developed a health-tracking system as an iPhone and iPod application. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
* '''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, California, USA.
* '''[[Hugh Young]]''', BSc, is a retired broadcaster and editor with a science background. He has published two dictionaries, of Solomon Islands Pijin and New Zealand Maori place name pronunciation (oral, now online at ngaingoa.notlong.com). He has presented three papers at [[genital integrity ]] symposia, on the rise and fall of circumcision in New Zealand (with Ken McGrath), on circumcision as a memeplex, and on the foreskin and circumcision in popular media, subsequently published. For more than 11 years he has maintained the Intactivism Pages, www.circumstitions.com, a pro-intact website. Pukerua Bay, New Zealand.
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